The Green Ray

2001
3m
Documentary
6.3/10

A static and silent shot of a sunset off the western coast of Madagascar. Tacita Dean filmed the ‘green ray’, a legendary natural phenomenon that takes place when, in specific atmospheric circumstances, the last ray of sun passes over the horizon and becomes green.

Cast

Tacita Dean

Narrator

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