The Sun Shone Whole at Intervals
United States, 12 mins
At their summerhouse on the coast of Maine, a family finds ways to cope with the changing landscape and the disappearance of a home.
Writer/Director: Robert Kerr
Producer: Noelia R. Deza
Director of Photography: Kai Miedendorp
Editor: Noelia R. Deza
Cast: Andrus Nichols, Chris Innvar, Hanna Cabell, Duke Lafoon
Contact: Noelia R. Deza, info@rionortefilms.com
Program C
Saturday, May 13th at 3pm ET
About the Writer/Director
Robert Kerr is a filmmaker based in New York and Madrid. His credits as a creative producer have screened and received awards at festivals internationally, including Málaga Film Festival, Tallinn Black Nights, and Huesca International Film festival. His writing and directing credits include Chronicle of a Move to Move Forward, which premiered as an official selection at the Oscar qualifying New Hampshire Film Festival. Robert’s work as a Location Scout has been featured in shows such as POSE, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and American Horror Story, among others. He is a graduate of the Columbia University Film MFA in Directing where he received a Dean’s Travel Grant to complete additional coursework at La Fémis, the French National Film School in Paris. Robert’s visual approach utilizes unique architectural and natural environments to dismantle classical notions of foreground and background while encouraging audiences to enter emotional charged cinematic spaces. He works primarily with his creative partner, Noelia R. Deza, as the founders of RioNorte.
About the Producer
Noelia R. Deza is a director, editor and producer from Madrid, Spain. She has completed studies at ECAM (Madrid), EICTV (Cuba) and, thanks to scholarships from la Caixa and SGAE, Columbia University School of the Arts (New York), where she obtained a Master in Fine Arts. Her films have been selected and awarded at festivals such as Tallinn Black Nights, Málaga Film Festival, DOKLeipzig, DocumentaMadrid, Huesca International Film festival, Tribeca Film Festival and Tirana International Film Festival among others. In 2020 she was awarded a NYFA Women's Fund grant. Noelia’s work is rooted in traditions of naturalism and slow cinema which, combined with her minimalist mise en scène, creates sensorily rich cinematographic worlds that blur the line between fiction and nonfiction.