AlUla Conference — Main Film

A child's lantern is the only thing connecting a desert, a market and a working day in another country, which makes it a continuity object doing a job no dissolve could. The light it casts had to be matched across plates that share no lighting at all, so it is built and balanced shot by shot until it belongs to each place — and once it does, it licenses cuts between locations that have nothing else in common. The edit hands the flame forward rather than cutting away from it.