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Joel Wanek

“For me, that is one of the greatest abilities of cinema: transforming the everyday into something larger than life, and, perhaps, even into something mythical.”

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    Sun Song

    SUN SONG

    JOEL WANEK United States, 2013

    Discovered at Rotterdam’s film festival, Joel Wanek’s short film is at once lyrically poetic and precisely documentarian. The lighting evolves as the day ages, and we watch portraits in miniature of Durham’s workers, students, and other passengers. Luminous with a quietly dark undercurrent.

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