The White of Night

Direction
Tin Dirdamal
Country
Mexico, France
Format
Feature film
Type
Documentary
Original title
The White of Night
Film presented in Toulouse

Dark Light Voyage, co-directed with Eva Cadena is part of the Feature Documentary Competition.

Scenario
Tin Dirdamal

Tin Dirdamal

Filmography

– Dark Light Voyage, feature, 2021

Mort d’Arizona, feature, 2014

Rivières d’hommes, feature, 2011

–  DeNadie, featyre, 2005

Sundance (award), Visions du Réel, IDFA, Jihlava (award), Mar del Plata, FICUNAM, L’Alternativa (award), BAFICI, WDR-ARTE…

Note of intent

Over the years I have been quarreling with fatherhood. I seek new ways to become a parent because through the years my failures seem too evident. I feel that the calm and knowledgeable word seems to be short of graspable. So I continue to seek, to abandon my old ways in the pursuit of true re-invention. In the process of this 9 year long film project that began 6 years ago, I seek a new current that will allow me to surrender to an interrupted change in terms of parenting.

Synopsis

Three small children navigate the strange world around them, full of life, death, innocence and redemption. Nine fragments over nine years sewn through the fantastic threat in which they observe life and how their father observes them in pursuit of newness.

Visual concept

In 2015 I began this project in which I follow and film my children one week out of each year. In each segment, through fantastic stories told by them I expose my changing incapacities as a father. I decided to repeat this task for the following nine years. In the process of executing these nine fragments I seek a new current that will allow me to surrender to an interrupted change in terms of parenting.

Objectives sought in Films in Development

In my search for new narratives in the world of cinema, I am looking for new ways to finance them. We have found 5 patrons (production company) who have financed the films thus far.

Planned shooting location

Mexico, Vietnam, Turkey, Albania

Percentage of funding in place
30%
Project's development phase

Shooting

Producer's biography

At 23 Tin grabbed a camera for the first time and made his first accidental feature length film that won him the Audience Award at Sundance. His films have been invited and awarded at: The Venice Biennale, Sundance, Visions du Reél, IDFA, Jihlava, Torino, Mar del Plata. He has received grants from Sundance Institute, Tribeca Film Institute and Rockefeller Media Artists.