Picture of Light
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Call Number: DVD 538.768 Pi
On Shelf At: Downtown Library
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Originally released as a motion picture in 1994.
Special features: Photo gallery; Peter Mettler biography; Peter Mettler filmography; article: Paradox and wonder : the cinema of Peter Mettler by Tom McSorley (1996).
Documents an expedition to Churchill, Manitoba to film the Aurora Borealis. Examines the paradoxes involved in trying to capture the Northern Lights on celluloid and explores the tension between nature and technology and between science and myth.
DVD; full screen presentation.
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LANGUAGE OPTIONS
Closed-captioned.
PUBLISHED
[New York] : First Run Features, [2014]
Year Published: 2014
Description: 1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Format: DVD
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Züst, Andreas, 1947-2000,
Mettler, Peter, 1958-
Grimthorpe Film (Firm),
First-Run Features (Firm),
SUBJECTS
Auroras -- Canada.
Auroras -- Observations.
Scientific expeditions -- Canada.
Nature films.
Science films.
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.