Dark Island, The

A man reminisces about the day in his adolescence when he was told of his grandfather’s death. The news acts as a catalyst for a seminal, disturbing experience; in retrospect, he realizes that he was forced to confront his growing independence from his family and particularly, his younger brother. “The Dark Island” conveys this epiphanic moment, an illuminating turn in the man’s life, by abruptly shifting rhythm and by emphasizing subjective sound. Moving from an urban to a rural environment and employing voiceovers which overlap the present and the past, the film evokes the inevitability of familial separation and the ambiguity of the relationship between memory and image.