‘Available Light‘ is a film exploring notions of home and belonging in contemporary society. Comprising interviews with workers at the ‘Edo Tokyo Open Air Architecture Museum‘ in Tokyo, and fragments of conversations with renters of that city and London, a productive dialectic opens between the museum’s preserved historical ideal of the domestic and the often unsettling realities of temporary accommodation in modern cities. By combining his trademark immersive sound design with impressionistic images and abstractions, Quaintance crafts an austere, oneiric and subtly affecting portrait of residential precarity.
