A Bright Light - Karen and the Process
Switzerland2018documentary94'Konkurs DocFilmMusic (2019)
With her talent and timbre, she could have gained the fame of Janis Joplin. Her biography, forgotten today, is a story of lost opportunities, tragic circumstances and her own negligence. Utilising the convention of the road cinema, the director follows the life of Karen Dalton, a folk and blues vocalist and a poet with Indian roots. She takes the viewers on a melancholy travel in time and a journey to provincial America, where the protagonist found retreat from the hustle and bustle of show business. She asks questions about the price that a woman and an artist looking for true fulfilment must pay in her life.
- directed by
- Emmanuelle Antille
Born in 1972 in Lausanne, Emmanuelle Antille studied at the ESAV in Geneva and at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. Since 1995, she has developed her artistic practice as a video artist and film director. Emmanuelle Antille has received numerous awards and recognitions: three Swiss Art Awards, the Kiefer-Hablitzel Prize, the Review film contest Migros Culture, Residencies in Berlin and in Paris, the Prix Découverte at the Festival de Namur, among others. "A Bright Light - Karen and the Process" is her first feature-length documentary.
- cinematography
- Carmen Jaquier
- music
- Karen Dalton, Billy Mitchel, Harry Tuft, Dick Weissman, Jean-Marc Butty, Ben Schenck, Colin Gagon, Diane Cluck, Lower Dens, Cheyenne , Phillipe Henchoz, Robot Kimbap, Djely Mamou Couyate, Delia Meshlir, Jimmy Duck Holmes, Larkin Grimm, Christian Pahud, Richard Tucker
- sound
- Malika Pellicioli
- editing
- Laurence Vaes, Emmanuelle Antille, Emilie Morier
- production
- Emmanuelle Antille (Rubis Films), Luc Peter (Intermezzo Films)
- Photo
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