Like the Night (2019)

The story is told through the eyes of seven female photographers in different cities and landscapes as they each move through the night, capturing the unexpected worlds that come alive after dark where they are. The film interprets "She Walks" (in Byron's 1814 poem 'She Walks In Beauty' ) as applying to the journeying of the female street photographers, and interprets the "beauty" of night-time inclusively - to include the sad, the sinister, the suggestive, the confrontational. Shot around the globe in Berlin, Bucharest, New York, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Paris, Lesotho and Johannesburg, the scenes in the film range from mountain landscapes to city life, from glimpses of crime to moments of romance. The film gathers pace and builds more and more tension, culminating in a Blood Moon and engaging the viewer directly, asking: What will you see in the dark? The famous Byron poem was written to describe a darkly beautiful woman. The film reverses the direction of the gaze and makes the female photographers it define the visual perspective, while the beauty that they walk in is the mysterious dark beauty of the night.