CPH:DOX, Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival

David Blandy’s artist film Sunspot will be screened at CPH:DOX, Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, on March 17 & 19th 2024

Sunspot is part of CPH:SCIENCE: Films exploring the encounter between cinema, science and society.

 Sun Mar 17, 7:00 PM /Venue: DFI / Cinemateket Carl
Including a Q&A with David Blandy and Inuk Jørgesen, Director of Entropy

Tues Mar 19, 7:00 PM /Venue: Kunsthal Charlottenborg

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SUNSPOT by David Blandy 
ENTROPY by Inuk Jørgesen
THE CLOUD PEOPLE by Marius Lena & Julian Furtuna

CPH:DOX

Sunspot

David Blandy / United Kingdom / 2023

A poetic archive film about light, time, forest fires and quantum physics.

On the day the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in 1945, two scientists sat on opposite sides of the world observing sunspots. One in Tokyo, the other in California. The image of the two observatories linked by historical coincidence is the starting point for David Blandy’s poetic archive film about light, time, forest fires and quantum physics. Sunspots were important astronomical phenomena during the war because they could interfere with army radio signals, so the observatories were sharply focused on the light in the sky. At the same time, an equally powerful light was switched on here on Earth, and the world has never been the same since.

Sunspot was commissioned by John Hansard Gallery with support from Arts Council England

Director: David Blandy
Producer: Claire Barrett
Running Time: 13min 28 sec
Country of production: United Kingdom
Year of Production: 2023
Languages: English & Japanese
Status: International Premiere

View of Sunspot, David Blandy, 2023. Installed at John Hansard Gallery, UK 

Part of the exhibition Atomic Light, co-commissioned by John Hansard Gallery & Towner Eastbourne. Curated by Ros Carter. With support from Arts Council England, Screen Archive South East and Elephant Trust. Photo: Reece Straw