From The Producer...

If we had a keen vision of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of the roar which lies on the other side of silence.
George Eliot, Middlemarch

Paintings are secrets of light. When you look continuously, you unlock.
Terry Black

As a painter, Black approaches filmmaking as a painting medium.

In his feature film, now in post-production, Black woos and seduces the viewer into entering secret places to see beyond the ordinary. Stripped of our assumptions, we wait and watch with him at dawn in bitter sub-zero temperatures, as the subtle beauty of a cold Canadian mid-winter draws us in, deeper and deeper

Black has made the film in high definition digital format for projection on a sixty foot screen using the new CP2000 ("C-Max") Christie Digital Light Projector – the best in the world. The soundtrack is being developed as part of the film, each affecting the other as the post-production process continues. Black expands further this interplay between artistic media, stating that "high definition digital technology has given painting, filmmaking, and music a common tongue, making it possible to trowel into the film unlikely details of new paintings to create the visual equivalents of alliteration and harmonics."

The film underscores the reality that our land and our way of life need healing. Terry Black recognizes that "people guard what they love." He beckons us to follow him into Sanctuary, enter its secret places on the other side of silence…look…listen...

Ruth Douglas, President
Waterline Artists Production Ltd.