"Dark Radiance," by Rikke Benborg & Ying-Hsueh Chen

“Dark Radiance”, a meditation on optical and sonic phenomena, is an experimental music- film/documentation, shot on analog 8 mm film.The percussionist Ying-Hsueh Chen improvises on a Tam-tam, a bass drum, 3 cymbals, and a metal plate with unconventional technique. By rubbing, turning, scratching with just a few instruments, a rich yet eerie world of overtones comes alive, intertwined with noises and undefined rhythms.

With perpetually irregular shifts of perspectives, we enter a realm where polarities are melted together: the abyss with glare, the shadow with glow, the primordial with elegance, the angst with serenity, the brutal with delicacy, the eternal with mortality.

Full creditlist:
Director, camera, editing & makeup: Rikke Benborg
Composition & performance: Ying-Hsueh Chen
Producer: Ancestral Modernism / Ying-Hsueh Chen
Sound engineer: Mette Due
Light Design: Christian Alkær
Clothes: Isaksen Design
Film shot in Betty Nansens Teatret