The Apocalypse Films

A father and his daughter struggle to survive in deep space where they live in isolation.

Over the course of a midsummer night in 1890s Ireland, the unsettled daughter of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy encourages her father's valet to seduce her.

In 2014, artist Olafur Eliasson and filmmaker Claire Denis connected for the first time to explore and discuss their common fascination with phenomena that have not yet been fully explained by science – such as black holes – and their shared interest in abstraction. This short film by Denis, contemplating tests for Eliasson's work ‘Contact’, is one outcome of that conversation which would eventually lead to their collaboration on Denis's film High Life (2018), in which Eliasson designed the light installations at the films end.