Public Lighting

Public Lighting — Plot

How do we tell the story of a life? What cruel reduction of an image will stand (in the obituary, the family photo album, the memory of friends) for the years between a grave and a difficult birth? Public Lighting examines the current media obsession with biography, offering up “the six different kinds of personality” (the obsessive, the narcissist) as case studies and miniatures, possible examples.

• Release date
• January 1, 2004
• Runtime
• 76 min
• Genres
• Documentary
• Director
• Mike Hoolboom