{{:chapters:fs_aureole_007.png?400|}} Aureole [2021] Single channel, 7 min 32 sec, 16mm film and betacam video transferred to digital, colour, stereo / / film credits, exhibitions and screenings [[:epilogue|here >]] In meteorology, the aureole is an atmospheric, optical phenomenon; the visible inner disc of a corona, produced by the diffraction of light from the sun or the moon, bright starlight or planet-light. 'Aureole' brings together unused celestial images from Scott’s earlier film, 'Diviner' (2017), with vocoder-readings from Ursula K. Le Guin’s novel 'The Left Hand of Darkness' (1969), scored by Chu-Li Shewring’s remix of the House track ‘Brighter Days’ (1992) by Cajmere featuring Dajae. Aureole is a transition between a ‘lost’ chapter from 'Diviner' and 'Wendy' (2022, forthcoming), a film fan-letter to composer Wendy Carlos, whose many interests include solar eclipse photography. Accelerating to a euphoric end, the film is the duration of the longest total solar eclipse, when the moon completely covers the sun. //You will witness the day become near-night, like the deepest twilight. Sunset colors bathe the full horizon, while a gaping black hole gazes down at you from the inky sky, eye-like and surreal, surrounded by the solar corona, a halo of pearly ephemeral light of delicate beauty. Each time the corona looks quite different, and like an old friend's face you'll recognize each in photographs.// Wendy Carlos [[www.wendycarlos.com|www.wendycarlos.com]] 'Aureole' is accompanied by a new text 'Winter is a planet' by Dave Tompkins, available as a downloadable PDF on the [[https://www.mattflix.video/scott|MattFlix website]]. & Image: Frances Scott, 'Aureole' (2021), film still