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A lone figure stands on cracked, dry earth in a barren landscape beneath a massive, glowing sun and stormy sky.

A lone figure stands on cracked, dry earth in a barren landscape beneath a massive, glowing sun and stormy sky.

An image that iconographically establishes, drawing from their respective film posters, the motifs of the films “Hell” by Tim Fehlbaum, “Blind Sun” by Joyce A. Nashawati, the noir “The Dry” by Robert Connolly, “Sundown” by Michel Franco, “Siccità” by Paolo Virzì, finally placing the emphasis, visually and not verbally or with captions, on the fact that the Sun, in these works, is systematically stripped of its traditional meanings: it does not give life, but destroys it; it does not heat, but burns; it does not illuminate, but blinds; it does not make the landscape beautiful, but discolors it; it does not announce summer, but the end. Voir plus