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The Weight of Snow

director: Daniel McIntyre

original title: The Weight of Snow

country: Canada, Ukraine

year: 2014

running time: 15 min.

synopsis

This essaistic journal explores radiation in relation to illness, impairment and death – of both man and film. This collage of abstract scenes and images related to travel and memory, shot at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and in nearby places on a trip to Ukraine, forms the central part of the series Lion, which explores the subject of radiation.

DETAIL:
Physically manipulated images and disintegrating visual variations presented as negatives show the impacts of radiation and the physical suffering of a person with cancer.

biography

Since 2009, Canadian visual artist Daniel McIntyre has made 13 short films, primarily on the subjects of memory, identity and history, that have been shown at many different festivals. Lion is a series of seven collages exploring the impact of radiation on people and on film.

more about film

director:	Daniel McIntyre
producer:	Daniel McIntyre
script:	Daniel McIntyre
photography:	Daniel McIntyre
editing:	Daniel McIntyre
music:	Mark Savoia

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