British director Bonnie Wright talks about her film Sextant, which is named after the instrument used to measure lunar distance:
“I was inspired to shoot a film on a full moon—when our sensitivities are heightened. I have always been interested in how an external landscape can become the catalyst for a character’s self discovery. In this film the character is initially afraid of her solitude, but through finding an honest communion with the landscape she actively surrenders to receive her fate.
“This is the first of a series of twelve short films that will see different women respond to a landscape through the themes relevant to the moon’s current cosmic order.”