The Light of Day

The Light of Day
Title The Light of Day
English title The Light of Day
Director Alex Eisenberg, Anne Bean
Country United Kingdom
Year 2020
Color Farbe
Genre Documentary, Experimental
Duration 00:19:06
Festival year 2021
Competitions International Online Competition
Online rental No
On-Site rental No

A series of tender exchanges between lifelong friends Jeanette Iljon and Anne Bean. Born eleven days apart to Jewish families in Zambia in 1950, they both went on to become artists in the UK. The Light of Day carefully recomposes Iljon’s experimental, feminist and social activist film works made in the 1970s–80s. It combines these with an almost-lost interview shot by Anne Bean in 2000 and new performance material that was made with Alex Eisenberg in 2019 following Iljon’s diagnosis with dementia.