Moon in Earthlight

The film opens on a set of lights arranged on a table that throw colored shapes across the wall of a darkened room This is followed by a range of subjects mostly shot with an unmoving camera hermit crabs on a beach strips of paper arranged on the bed of a scanning photocopier bare feet moving among metal rods on roughly poured concrete the city of Los Angeles at different times of day someone playfully maneuvering a power washer a disco ball casting confettilike reflections bodies touching a worker at a construction site and light on the surface of water abstracted by darkness Overview Courtesy of MoMA