Lux of Sunrise (Horicon Marsh)

I made this film in the Fall of 2022 for my Experimental Documentary class. The prompt for this film was to address a visual/ocular mode as described by Martin Jay in “Scopic Regimes of Modernity”. This could be shown on screen literally or abstractly, as long as it was something that the audience could see.
The words “lux” and “lumen” stood out to me in Jay's writing. Lux refers to the area on which light spreads, and lumen refers to the source of the light itself. I chose to film the lux of a sunrise; meaning that, instead of filming the sun itself as it rises above the horizon (which would be the lumen of the sunrise), I chose to film the area 180 degrees opposite of the sun, the area which the sun will slowly light up as it rises. Therefore, I filmed directly West, which breaks conventional sunrise videos that would film directly East to focus on the sun itself. I have previously filmed both sunrise and sunset videos in time-lapse, but in both instances, I had my camera aimed right at the sun, so I thought it would be interesting to change it up and aim it directly away from the sun.
I filmed this video as a time-lapse at the Horicon Marsh. Time-lapse videos obviously do not record audio, however, I recorded audio separately while the time-lapse video was recording. The audio that you hear in this video is the audio that was recorded DURING the filming of the time-lapse video, so it's actually diegetic for this location. The pounding that is heard in the audio track is the sound of train cars slamming into each other to be connected at a train station that wasn't far from me.