
The festival’s International Film Competition [OPEN CALL] received over 270 submissions from 40 countries worldwide, competing for awards across six different categories.
On A Clear Day You Can See the Revolution From Here excavates layers of myth, geology and technology to reveal the shifting fault lines between a government, its people and their land. The film brings into focus contemporary processes of nation building and myth-making in Kazakhstan through an expansive journey across the remnants of Soviet technological infrastructures that persist in the landscape. Shot on 16mm, the camera is drawn across the Kazakh Steppe taking in locations that include mineral mines, the Eurasian Steppe, the STS decommissioned nuclear site and the newly constructed city of Nur-Sultan.
- Year2020
- Runtime64 minutes
- CountryCanada, Kazakhstan
- DirectorEmma Charles, Ben Evan James
- ScreenwriterEmma Charles, Ben Evans James, Nora O Murchú
- ProducerDuman Nursila
- CinematographerEmma Charles, Ben Evans James
- EditorEmma Charles, Ben Evans James
- Sound DesignSebastian Kite, Michal Maletz
- MusicSimon Goff
The festival’s International Film Competition [OPEN CALL] received over 270 submissions from 40 countries worldwide, competing for awards across six different categories.
On A Clear Day You Can See the Revolution From Here excavates layers of myth, geology and technology to reveal the shifting fault lines between a government, its people and their land. The film brings into focus contemporary processes of nation building and myth-making in Kazakhstan through an expansive journey across the remnants of Soviet technological infrastructures that persist in the landscape. Shot on 16mm, the camera is drawn across the Kazakh Steppe taking in locations that include mineral mines, the Eurasian Steppe, the STS decommissioned nuclear site and the newly constructed city of Nur-Sultan.
- Year2020
- Runtime64 minutes
- CountryCanada, Kazakhstan
- DirectorEmma Charles, Ben Evan James
- ScreenwriterEmma Charles, Ben Evans James, Nora O Murchú
- ProducerDuman Nursila
- CinematographerEmma Charles, Ben Evans James
- EditorEmma Charles, Ben Evans James
- Sound DesignSebastian Kite, Michal Maletz
- MusicSimon Goff