Celestial Navigation

Celestial Navigation could be seen to work in the tradition of British landscape film in that it incorporates a natural element (the Earths rotation) into the structure of the film. Filmed in the course of one day on a beach the film uses pan and tilt movements to follow the shadow of a spade and retain its vertical position in the frame.

• Release date
• January 1, 1980
• Runtime
• 10 min
• Genres
• Documentary
• Director
• John Smith