SOLACE
Isolated and facing her own mortality, a woman finds solace in the natural world around her.
Filmed in lockdown in Western Australia during the Covid pandemic, SOLACE is a meditation on loneliness, and a reminder that connection is never lost.
Post-production was completed on July 30, 2023 in Los Angeles, where the director now resides.
Run time: 10″ / Ratio 1.77:1 (16:9) / Sound mix: Dolby 5.1 SR
Available as a DCP or digital file for screening.
Director’s Statement:
“Limited to using what was at hand, I filmed this project on a Canon EOS-M camera that I had previously used for portrait and street photography. For external scenes in the hot Perth sun, I built a viewfinder out of plastic, fabric, glue and Velcro, and used an antique doll’s pram as a dolly (I called it ‘the dolly dolly’). I used my studio vocal mic to ADR the one word of dialogue in the film. I utilised footage from a festival installation I had acted in, patchworking whatever elements I had at hand to create a story. As for a lead – the film stars my former stage actress mum.
Not only a piece that honours the very real challenges of isolation, loneliness and the yearning for connection, this film is very much a testament to the adage, do what you can with what you have.”
Starring Lynn Gumb as Lone Woman / Death played by Aminah Hughes
Writer, Director, Producer, Cinematographer, Sound Recordist, and Editor: Aminah Hughes
Original Score by Dana Lyn / Music Mixer: Ash Gibson Greig / Vocalist: Aminah Hughes
Sound Designer & Mixer: Ric Curtin
Color by Aminah Hughes & Conor Dowling
Additional Footage by Svetlana Gartrell
Produced by Sky Woman Productions
Distributed by Halo Films
SOLACE News
SOLACE earned Official Selection at the Valkyrie International Film Festival (Buffalo, NY), Revelation Perth International Film Festival, WA Made Film Festival, and at the Lift-Off Film Festivals in New York, Austin, and Tokyo.
It received the Breathtaking Visuals Award at the Valkyrie International Film Festival, was nominated for Best Short at the Montreal Women Film Festival and received an Honourable Mention at the 2024 WA Screen Culture Awards, which recognise innovation in filmmaking.
In 2023, Solace welcomed HALO Films as a distribution partner.
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