James Loran Gillespie destabilizes film's appearances, yet cultivates a rhythmic and psychological mood. A flashing ambiance embodies rhythm, tone, chiaroscuro, and contrast, playing on 'enlighte nment' as an elusive but ever present possibility. It employs poles of symbolic light and darkness, and Zen-like circumstances with an evanescence challenging both eye and mind. Intermittent 'glowings' of a phantasmic light-bulb filament, punctuate cyclic appearances of quotidian labour..