Excerpt
LIGHT, PROTECT ME FROM OBLIVION
Experimental film / docu-fiction
United States
2023
7 min
Super 8, 16mm
Color, B&W
1.33:1
Stereo
No Dialogue
Exhibition Formats:
DCP 1.85:1 Flat
Digital
Book
Film-Makers' Coop Catalog
A fragmented visual journal filmed across California.
Working between home movie, landscape study, and docu-fiction, the film assembles images of family rupture, exile, animal companionship, and unstable memory. A fictional device enters the film as an apparition: part portal, part witness, part failed protection against disappearance.
The film was developed over six months as a study of displacement and belonging, holding melancholy and gratitude in the same frame.
Music composed by Ella Zwietnig.
Screenings & Selections —
5th Helios Sun Poetry Film Festival; Mexico, 2026
12th NY/NW Film Festival
The Film-Makers’ Cooperative/NACG; NY, USA 2025
This Is Not A Fiction; American Cinematheque; LA, USA 2025
Analogica 14; Bolzano, Italy 2024
71st Martovski Film Festival; Belgrade, Serbia 2024
42nd New Jersey Film Festival; NJ, USA 2024
Credits —
Polaroid Cowgirl: Audrey Ludlow
Man: Camilo Barria
Dog: Taco
Director / Writer / Editor: Camilo Barria
Photography: Emil Royer
Producers: Adriana Lodolo, Camilo Barria
Music: Ella Zwietnig
Cameras: Nizo S800, Arriflex 16ST
Negative: Kodak
Laboratory: Spectra, Los Angeles
Scanning: Origins Archival, Los Angeles
Color finishing: Kromachrome
Filmed on location in California
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