Obsessed with Light is a meditation on light and the enduring obsession to create. It is a film about transformation and about a trailblazing artist who disrupted the prevailing notions of dance and the imagined limits of the human body, while merging cutting edge technology with her art. The film pulls back the curtain on Loïe Fuller, a wildly original performer who revolutionized the visual culture of the early 20th century.
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production
Between the Rivers
co-production
ZDF e YUZU Productions
collaboration
ARTE
duration 1h30
+12
Sabine Krayenbühl is an award-winning filmmaker with more than twenty documentaries to her name. She is the co-director and editor of Letters from Baghdad, which was shown in more than 100 cinemas around the world and broadcast on PBS, ARTE and the BBC. Her editing work includes My Architect, nominated for an Oscar, and Hunt for Planet B, winner of an Emmy.
Zeva Oelbaum is an award-winning filmmaker and photographer. With Sabine Krayenbühl, she co-curated and produced Letters from Baghdad. Zeva Oelbaum produced Ahead of Time, a documentary about journalist Ruth Gruber, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival before winning six Best Documentary awards. The director came to cinema after a career in photography, and her work has been published in newspapers such as The New York Times.