Color Theory: Red

In the first instalment of the NOWNESS commissioned trilogy by New York directors Simon Davis and Jason Sondock aka rubberband.—a young woman tentatively descends into the laundry room of an empty home. Red’s cinematography is evocative of Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski’s 1994 Academy-nominated picture Three Colours: Red in that both films rely on everyday items painted in the titular colour to drive the narrative. “While our films don’t have clear cut themes as monolithic as Kieslowski’s they are our