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UNDER RAYS

Jörn Staeger // Germany // 2025 // 08:22 min

Art Film, Poetry

Producer: Jörn Staeger

This project attempts a poetic approach to the everyday and at the same time magical phenomenon of the sun. The short duration of the film coincides with the eternally recurring presence of the sun. On the one hand, the protagonist of this film is seen as a source of life and energy, but on the other hand, she also appears to us as a threatening danger in the hot summers of recent years.

In “Under Rays” the sun is reflected in the contrasts of ambivalent images between pleasant, bizarre and dangerous impressions from artificial light to daylight, from dark gray to color frenzy, from vitamin D to skin cancer, from climate change to energy transition and from glare to blindness.

Topics:

#Environment   #Nature  

Bio Regie

Jörn Staeger

Jörn Staeger was born in 1965 in Berlin and is a German filmmaker with over 30 years of experience in the film industry. Since 1979, he has created approximately 30 of his own short films. After completing his studies at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg from 1984 to 1991, where he earned a degree in Visual Communication/Film, he specialized in working as a cinematographer and [...]

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