Francisca Duran
In the Kingdom of Shadows | 2006 | 5:30mins | BetaSP | Canada
Francisca Duran was born in Santiago, Chile in 1967. Since the coup in 1973, she has lived primarily in Toronto, and also in Kingston where she received a BAH in Film Studies from Queens University. She currently works as a graphic designer and recently received a MFA in Film from York University.
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In the Kingdom of Shadows documents a paragraph being typeset on an early twentieth-century Ludlow Linecaster. The text is taken from Maxim Gorky’s 1896 review of the Lumiere Brothers’ film Arrival of the Train at La Ciotat (1895). As the words melt into a pool of lead, the alchemical magic of printing is linked to that of cinema.
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