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Shadow Chasers

2000 · 58 min

A calm, curious travelogue that shares the quiet thrill of people who cross the world to stand in a shadow.

Directed by: Jean Marc Larivière
Genres: Documentary
Starring: Alain Cirou, Olivier Staiger, Debasis Sarkar

Overview: This feature-length documentary is a portrait of eclipse chasers, people for whom solar eclipses - among nature's more spectacular phenomena – are a veritable obsession. The film follows 4 of them as they travel incredible distances to witness the last total eclipse of the millennium as it sweeps eastward across Europe to India. At various points along the way enthusiasts Alain Cirou in France, Paul Houde in Austria, Olivier Staiger in Germany and Debasis Sarkar in India offer their impressions of the historic event.

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Directed by: Jean Marc Larivière
Genres: Documentary
Starring: Alain Cirou, Olivier Staiger, Debasis Sarkar

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Tone: earneststrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 2 of 3
whimsicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: obsession
exploration
science
nature
identity
Places: road trip
countryside
big city
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: documentary
true story
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex none

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Genres: documentary
Directed by: Jean Marc Larivière
Written by: Jean Marc Larivière
Starring: Alain Cirou, Olivier Staiger, Debasis Sarkar, Madeleine Arsenault, James Hyndman, Paul Houde
Runtime: 58 min
Country: Germany, Canada, France, India, Austria
Languages: French

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