Sunstone

The lighthouse as a manmade object built to shed light into the dark unknown encapsulates perfectly the desires of the Enlightenment project of modernity the domination of nature through reason and intellect the advancement of technology and trade on a global scale the illuminatory transparency of European Christian morality a beacon in the dark This opfilm will be a disorienting and disoccidenting dérive from optical navigation to algorithms of locating an essay against the grain of Western patterns of referencing and situating From a film made with lenses and ensitive celluloid to the desktop locating engine we will navigate from the material production of Fresnel lenses to the invention of global navigation satellite systems GNSS the tool that announces the obsolescence of the lighthouse