Shadowstar

About the film

A scout on a far world finds a signal no one else can hear and decides to answer it, knowing the reply may not be friendly. Shot on a volume stage with a practical core, the film is a long argument between silence and the urge to be found.

The edit lives in the pauses. Every cut in Shadowstar was made around the silence first, then the image was hung on it. The score came last, written against the final cut like a letter to the composer I wished I was.