As we all know...

Director of Photography: John Adderley This film is a six hour time-lapse sun track, shot around sunset. With the sun locked in the middle, the earth appears to moving from left to right across the frame (or around the sun). Referencing science fiction, this film is about the discrepancy of scientific world view and the everyday life. We know the earth is moving round the sun, but viewed from earth the sun appears to be moving round the earth. This film poses the question whether knowing (or 'seeing') is not just another form of believing, as, ultimately, what is shown in the film, is merely earth's rotations. Review by Maxa Zoller What makes a great artwork? Minimum ingredients, maximum taste. If you agree, you should see Alix Poscharsky's beautiful 16mm film: As We All Know. It is the best example of how one simple idea can create eight minutes of visual wonder. On an extra-long panorama screen, imagine a prism of white bright light, there, suddenly. Then something dark starts pushing in from the right. Gradually the light diminishes turning into a stunning red. What is this? Half the way into the film the penny drops: it's a sunset filmed from the wrong angle! Poscharsky is tricking my perception with a simple twist! Minimum ingredients, maximum taste. It is all there: abstraction, nature and the sublime. But this film is also – dare I say – narrative. The process of the sunset (once you got that's what it is) creates a suspense, which keeps you in the seat from the first second to the last. Poscharsky's work reminds me of 70s' structural film, because it uses minimal techniques, it portrays a gradual process, and deals with the basics of film: light. Amongst thecountless bland, ‘what's your point’ graduation videos, As We All Know is my bright star at the horizon. (Maxa Zoller, 2006). Article by John Adderley about the making of this film "Here Comes The Sun", Zerb Magazine, No. 65, Spring 2007, p.10 - 14, http://www.24fps.tv/ZerbSpring2007final.pdf