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The National Gallery is collaborating with the London Film School on 'Transcriptions: LFS Shorts', an innovative new project which involves second term students producing short 3-4 minute films inspired by the Gallery’s collection as part of their course.

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From the film-maker:

The composition is absolutely calm – a single figure reading at a table in a large and almost empty area – but still visually interesting.
The mood stimulated my curiosity and the only word I left with was ‘knowledge’. Within the scheme of light and shade I saw the battle between knowledge and ignorance. Some of us are trying to light our way in the journey of life with knowledge to become human beings.

‘The Journey’ is a film that shows the hard life of people who would like to know.

Amirsam Arjmand

A piece inspired by Follower of Rembrandt, A Man seated reading at a Table in a Lofty Room, about 1628-30