When lighting designer Justyn T. Davis discussed light, I thought of the Ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus and his famous saying about rivers.
The exact phrasing is unknown, but the most common version is, “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.” The essential point is that everything is always already in flux — the river, the man, becoming and unbecoming. Light, I learned from Davis, is the same.
Davis will be at the Lake Placid Film Festival on Saturday, Nov. 1, giving a workshop at the High Peaks Resort from 3 to 4 p.m. on lighting design and gaffing for film. Alongside Anthony Pierce Clark and John Maher, film tradespeople I wrote about in previous columns, Davis’s participation in the festival is part of an effort to promote local work in the film industry. Gary Smith, chair of the Lake Placid Film Festival and Adirondack Film, has organized a series of events to educate and encourage locals to work in the film trade…