A Morning Light

When they find one another by chance in the middle of the woods old friends Zach and Ellyn seem smiledupon by the gods of summer fated for a carefree season ranging across hills lakes and forests Gradually however their charmed reunion is distorted by an unseen but everexpanding presence Are they hidden in a quiet glade after all or perched on the tip of the universe buffeted by cosmic winds Directed shot and edited by Ian Clark A Morning Light finds a new mode for the scifi thriller one of insomniac watchfulness With its eerily precise photography and uncanny soundscape that pulses rumbles and roars behind sedate scenery it poses the otherworldly as something very near something embedded in our own eyes and ears Jon Kieran New Orleans Film Festival