07 October 2024
Daylight Revolution: Daylight Academy’s documentary to premiere in Basel
A full-length documentary exploring daylight and the broad range of ways through which it affects us and our planet is set to premiere at the 6th Global Science Film Festival in Basel on 9 November. It features a wide range of Daylight Academy (DLA) members filmed in picturesque locations where their work and research makes a difference.
What do an Alpine dam, a glass cabin in the arctic and an air traffic control room near Zurich have in common? They are all connected in some way or another to daylight research.
Alban Kakulya and Sandy Evangelista’s documentary “The Daylight Revolution” explores the role of daylight in our world, decoding the prism of effects it has on us through interviews with leading experts in disciplines such as biology, physics, anthropology and architecture.
Their work is documented on the backdrop of visually stunning locations ranging from the forests of Central America to a lab in the middle of Lake Geneva. It features real examples of cutting edge innovation and technology that is the product of our understanding of natural light.
TRAILER – The Daylight Revolution
A 70-minute version of the film is set to be shown to the public for the first time at 17:20 on 9 November at the Stadtkino Cinema in Basel as part of the Global Science Film Festival, an international film festival organised by the Swiss Science Film Academy.
The screening will be folowed by a debate moderated by architecture journalist Judit Solt with a speakers panel featuring both filmmakers as well as Prof. Em. Anna Wirz-Justice (UPK Basel, Switzerland), a pionieer of chronobiology who is among the scientists interviewed in the film.
The documentary is the result of many years of planning and production in a DLA project initiated by one of its founding members – Prof. Em. Jean-Louis Scartezzini (EPFL, Switzerland). The original idea was inspired by the 2017 DLA booklet “Changing perspectives on daylight: Science, technology, and culture”, which presented the wide spectrum of recent multidisciplinary research into daylight.