LIGHT PROTECT ME FROM OBLIVION / Excerpt

A fragmented visual journal filmed across California.

Working between home movie, landscape study, and docu-fiction, the film assembles images of family rupture, exile, animal companionship, and unstable memory. A fictional device enters the film as an apparition: part portal, part witness, part failed protection against disappearance.

The film was developed over six months as a study of displacement and belonging, holding melancholy and gratitude in the same frame.

Music composed by Ella Zwietnig. 

Credits —

Polaroid Cowgirl: Audrey Ludlow
Man: Camilo Barria
Dog: Taco

Director / Writer / Editor: Camilo Barria
Photography: Emil Royer
Producers: Adriana Lodolo, Camilo Barria
Music: Ella Zwietnig

Cameras: Nizo S800, Arriflex 16ST
Negative: Kodak
Laboratory: Spectra, Los Angeles
Scanning: Origins Archival, Los Angeles
Color finishing: Kromachrome
Filmed on location in California

Festivals —

5th Helios Sun Poetry Film Festival; Mexico, 2026

12th New Year/New Work Film Festival
The Film-Makers' Cooperative/New American Cinema Group
NYC, USA, 2025

This Is Not A Fiction; American Cinematheque;
Los Angeles, USA, 2025

Analogica 14 International Analog Film Festival;
Bolzano, Italy, 2024

71st Martovski International Film Festival; 
Belgrade, Serbia, 2024

42nd New Jersey Film Festival; NJ, USA 2024

Selected Images and Characters / Text-to-Image Development