Film

Encounters in Light

2020 · 21m · Documentary

Encounters in Light is the poetic documentation of two artists, friends, and lovers. The film eschews any biographical structure and instead looks at the ways these two artists are bound by time and light. Lawrence Jordan and Joanna McClure have extensive bodies of work between them. The film interweaves Joanna’s poetry, Lawrence’s films, personal interviews, and emotive imagery to produce a sensory engagement with a long lasting friendship and artistic practice. An understanding of mortality is ever present and the film let’s that feeling permeate throughout. How does one relate to years of love, friendship, and art? How does it resonate in the present moment? In the film, there is a sense of boundlessness and understanding that indeed, time dissolves all boundaries until there is only the possibility of light.

Joanna McClure

The Poet

Lawrence Jordan

The Filmmaker

• Devin Jie AllenDirector · Editor · Producer
• Aniello De AngelisProducer

Release date

July 31, 2020

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

21m

Genres

Documentary