Night Vision
Be careful what you look for in technology!
Jenny is a young filmmaker searching for inspiration. She falls in love and tells her crush she cannot remember her dreams. Jenny enjoys browsing markets and buys an old video camera at a flea market. She explores the footage on the camera’s tape, revealing strange artifacts and surprising presences. What was that appearing on the screen?
As Jenny is searching for a story to tell, the film unfolds as a shaky, moving parable that follows dream logic through free associations, tonal shifts, and genre-bending. Blending autofiction, found footage, romance, and horror, debut filmmaker Christopher Yates gives us a poignant diary film, an engaging visual wave, that reveals much about us and our inner selves.
Made without following the usual funding channels, “Night Vision” is a self-produced, low-budget film – a true indie – that takes bold visual and narrative risks, discovering the true essence of cinema: a dreamcatcher that helps us relive the past. It is a rebellious act of filmmaking that subtly bridges genres and proposes an amusing immersive experiment that is thought-provoking, innovative, and emotional.
Javier Garcia Puerto
Biography
Christopher Yates (1978) directed his first documentary in 2009 with “Not Here”, a road movie about the rock band Girls in Hawaii. He then went on to co-direct “Reveka” (2015), a documentary about the mines of Potosí in Bolivia. He is also the co-creator and co- writer of the twenty-six episodes of the Belgian series “Public Enemy”. He followed this with the short film “Detours” (2019) and “Short of Breath” (2023), a documentary about healthcare workers facing Covid. “Night Vision” (2026) is his first feature-length fiction film.
Filmography
The Age of Death (2015, doc, co-dir), Night Vision (2026)
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