Tracing Light

Thomas Riedelsheimer’s Tracing Light explores that most fascinating and significant of natural phenomena – light.

Year: 2024 

Director: Thomas Riedelsheimer 

Producers: Sonja Henrici, Thomas Riedelsheimer 

Executive Producers: Leslie Hills, Stefan Tolz, Mark Thomas 

Production Companies: Filmpunkt GmbH & Sonja Henrici Creates Ltd in association with Skyline Productions 

Screen Scotland support: The film accessed £120,000 through Screen Scotland’s Film Development and Production Fund.


Synopsis

Thomas Riedelsheimer’s Tracing Light explores that most fascinating and significant of natural phenomena – light. Light, seen only in interaction with matter, is the subject of collaboration among artists, physicists and nature itself, to develop artworks - and explore the secrets of the universe and the ineffable nature of light itself.

Still from Tracing Light. Three people stand in a room looking at wires and cables.


More information

Premiere: Tracing Light will have its World Premiere at DOK Leipzig as the Opening Night Film on Monday 28 October 2024.  

Image credit

Header image: Kimchi and Chips with Rosa Menkman