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Impossible light / Mission Rock Pictures presents in association with Illuminate the Arts a film by Jeremy Ambers ; producers, Jeremy Ambers, Nerissa Ambers ; writers, Kathi Wheater, Jeremy Ambers.

[San Francisco, Calif.] : [Mission Rock Pictures], [2014]

1 videodisc (69 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

digital optical

widescreen (16:9) 24 fps

NTSC

video file DVD video Region 1

The San Francisco--Oakland Bay Bridge opened in 1936 and was almost immediately overshadowed by the Golden Gate Bridge, which opened less than a year later. A dull workhorse next to a glamorous star, it seemed the Bay Bridge would never outshine its sister to the north. That all changed on the evening of March 5, 2013, when the Bay Bridge--thanks to 25,000 LED lights--did just that: shined. As amazing as the lights are, the story of how they got there is perhaps even more so, a story given life by Jeremy Ambers' captivating new feature-length documentary, Impossible Light. Impossible Light provides an inside glimpse at how a small team of visionaries battled numerous obstacles--from the drawing board to the boardroom to 500 feet above San Francisco Bay--to turn an impossible dream into a glimmering reality. It details all of the drama and the joy involved in creating a work of art on the grandest of scales, and demonstrates that the Bay Lights truly is a project whose "impossibility made it possible."

Villareal, Leo, 1967-

Bridges -- Lighting -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area.

Light in art.

Site-specific installations (Art) -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area.

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (Oakland and San Francisco, Calif.)

Ambers, Jeremy, director, writer, producer.

Ambers, Nerissa, film producer.

Wheater, Kathi, screenwriter.

Mission Rock Pictures (Firm)

Illuminate the Arts.

Possible light

Title from title screen.

Includes bonus material: nine extended and deleted scenes; original film trailer; video of the Bay Lights set to original music by Kevin T. Doyle.

Editor, Jeremy Ambers ; music, Kevin T. Doyle ; animator, Randy Burton.

Featuring Chris Berge, Gray Brechin, Timothy Childs, Jason Cipriani, Amy Critchett, Ben Davis, Mike Durflinger, William Fox, Donald MacDonald, Bart Ney, JoAnne Northrup, Brandon Peterson, Dorka Keehn, Brian Macrae, Shawn Murphy, Mark Pauline, Saeed Shahmirzai, Gian Pablo Villamil, Leo Villareal, and Chuck Wollenberg.

DVD.

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DVD 624.55 Impossib