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Light Darkness and Colour (1998)
Directed by Henrik Moetius, Marie Louise Lauridsen
Documentary · 52m
Using Goethe's Theory of Colors (Zur Farbenlehre) as point of departure, Light Darkness and Colors takes us on a fascinating journey through the universe of colors. In 1704, Sir Isaac Newton published Light and Refraction, his study of the interactions between sunlight and prisms. Newton was, as a good scientist, intent on achieving objectivity, which meant studying sunlight in isolation. He thought colors were contained solely in light, and found the spectrum he was looking for. When he reproduced this experiment, Goethe found another, hidden set of colors missed by Newton. Goethe found the hidden colors in the boundaries between light and darkness. He felt, as an artist, that one could not talk about light without including darkness. Calling it 'the light-darkness polarity', Goethe made this new scientific discovery using artistic methods in conjunction with science.
Cast
David Bateson
Crew
- Director
- Henrik Moetius, Marie Louise Lauridsen
- Writer
- Henrik Boetius, Marie Louise Lauridsen, Marie Louise Lefevre
- Director of Photography
- Manuel Sellner
- Editor
- Peter Englesson
- Producer
- Lise Lense-Møller
Details
- Original title
- Lyset, mørket og farverne
- Release date
- 1998-01-01
- Runtime
- 52m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- Denmark
- Production
- Magic Hour Films, TV-VENTURES, E-Motion Pictures, Hysteria Film