The White Field

2022, FR/AT, 16mm transferred to HD,  colour, 3.1 sound, 13 min

Credits

"The White Field" is a dialogue, it circumscribes the site of an encounter: between the filmmaker and a woman who has chosen to live without technology because it makes her sick. 76-year-old Jill constructs her habitat, the "white field", anew every day. The electrosensitive woman lives in her white Ford at an altitude of 1,400 m in the French Vercors Massif, 40 minutes away from the nearest village.

In lengthy journeys, she runs her daily errands, visits her friends and sometimes spends hours looking for places where she feels no electromagnetic radiation.

Shot on 16 mm with a wind-up Beaulieu camera, this essay film seeks to establish a recording process that does not create an electromagnetic field. It thereby translates the sensitivity of its protagonist into an artistic form and aesthetically traces the force fields in this life story.

Based solely on foley sounds which were only recorded afterwards, the soundtrack, achieves a hyper-realistic and at the same time artificial atmosphere, making Denton's
mode of perception palpable.