“The film is a manipulation of time, light, and sound. We see time compressed, as light quickly travels around an empty house, and time frozen, as a boy plays on a swing. Natural sounds – a thunderstorm, birds, crickets, and a bell, are identified with a set of images, and then shifted to another set. These intercut elements come to a sense of conclusion, but the film then shifts, and ends quietly, as it began. ‘August Afternoons’ is a film of oppositions, subtly rendered by a very intelligent use of sound/image dialectics. Visually, the film explores very small interior spaces, observed through time-lapse, still, and stop-motion photography, all the while the audio is a ‘real time’ rendering of thunder, rain, bells, and chirping birds, evoking a misty dreamy transformation of an ordinary into a metaphysical world.” – Owen Shapiro, Juror at Independent Film and Video Expo XXI “Visually stunning time-lapse photography of light passing over the objects in a rather quaint country house. The colours often seem like an impressionist painting and the film, punctuated by an afternoon thunderstorm, deftly sets a languid and evocative mood.”- Paul Sterling Hagerman, Juror at Independent Film and Video Expo XXI Alao available on DVD on the compilation “Move Click Move.”
