SHADOWS/LIGHT

Caroline Leaf’s films are convincing proof that great film effects can be created with incredibly simple methods. Colour or even just sand are the basic materials for her pictures, which are painted on a sheet of glass. Lit from below, light and shadow produce expressive, even magical effects. Caroline Leaf changes the hand-drawn figures picture for picture, directly under the camera. Moving figures change their position in the picture. They must therefore be continually painted over, and the background suitably adjusted. Caroline Leaf works step by step to advance the movement and plot. Each picture must be destroyed to make the next. Nothing can be repeated. Caroline Leaf has mastered this creative technique. She gives proof of her extensive talent with her mind for stories. Lyric poetry and humanity are her concern. The depth and inner warmth of her figures coarsely drawn on the sheet of glass, achieve a unique degree of identification. The stories are neither comic nor tragic. They move through humour and emotion at the same time. Here is an example of Caroline Leaf's work ---> The Street