The Weight of Light | The mind as a transformer of energy | A Movie by Ideami (ENG)

In a global economy and energy crisis, the energy corporation is taking over the entire city, transforming all its emblematic buildings, including the Grand Theater, into collection agencies.
An inventor creates an extraordinary machine that can transform the stress of people into useful energy, and starts working with the desperate citizens that arrive to the theater. He will soon face the wrath of the corporation which will banish him from the city. In his search for a solution to the crisis he will encounter some of the key frequencies of human light and existence and will ultimately discover the beauty and imperfections of the most amazing form of all human lights.

Concept: "Stress is a cat that never blinks, always on guard". The Weight of Light is a tale about the importance of following our hearts and using the best tool we have, our mind, to transform negative energies into better ones. No matter how well things go there will always be flickers (parpadeos) in our lifes and learning from those flickers is the key to happyness;Stress, the cat that never blinks is always around us, but we have a very special tool with us to try to transform it.

Director's statement
The Weight of Light is a metaphor about the importance of transforming our negative energies into more positive ones. Negative human energies can represent fear, stress, envy, selfishness, ego and similar ones. The film reflects about the human mind as the most extraordinary transformer ("the machine" in the film) that we all have in ourselves. As such the film shows how depending on how we treat and we work with our "machine", our "mind" we can produce light of different frequencies, angry frustrated light (red), dark and sad light (black) and many others, representing the many infinite wavelengths of human feeling, emotion and behaviour that can spring out of this magical extraordinary machine that our mind is.
The film reflects as well about "true light" (white-yellow bulb). True light is described as the light we can achieve when we follow the path in life that resonates the most with our soul and being. When we don't attempt to be what we are not. When we flow naturally with what makes us happy and joyful. This "True Light" doesn't have a weight that drags us down (like the energy coming from stress or anger). Instead it is weightless light that immediately spreads all around, touching those around us with positive energy. This is a metaphor of how negative energy has a weight that drags us down and keeps us isolated whereas true light (the one we produce when we follow the paths that make us happy) is light that helps us soar and at the same time expands our boundaries to those around us who also benefit from our positive vibes.
This is presented in the film from the point of view of what we do in life (Career, occupations etc) and also of relationships.
We are social beings and communicating and interacting with others can make our minds ("machines") resonate with each other in the right circumstances.
The film shows how when two minds resonate fully, are on the same wavelength and their perspectives are complementary, they can produce that "true light" (White) as well.
However, and here comes the final key element of the story. Even that ideal "True Light" is not perfect. It has flickers just as any other form of energy. It has imperfections within its beauty. There is not a permanent state of joy or resonance. There will be ups and downs, moments in which the true white light will darken. However the film goes on to show that as long as our base is built around this true light, those dips, those downs will not alter the general direction of our lives, which will keep going in the right direction.

Production Year: 2013
Best Actress Award at the FICEE International Film Festival in Ciudad Rodrigo, Spain
Official Selections
HD Film Festival, Valladolid, Spain
FICEE International Film Festival, Ciudad Rodrigo, Spain
International Film Festival below the Moon, Islantilla, Spain
Culture Unplugged We Speak Film Festival

Directed by Javier Ideami |
Music Composed by Jesus Calderon
Additional Music
Fragments from Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune by Claude Debussy
Symphony 6 ("Pathetique") by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovski
Music performed by the Orquestra simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya (OBC) conducted by Pablo González,
Recording by Catalunya Música

Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix by Camille Saint-Saëns
Soprano voice by Lys Agnès, Orchestration by Jesus Calderón

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