Filming a Global Phenomenon: DICKINSON

How many ways can you watch a solar eclipse like today’s ‘Ring of Fire’ ? And how many ways can you portray people doing such?

Dickinson 1.09 "'Faith' is a fine invention" gets inventive in a gorgeously shot sequence which runs the gamut from pieces of paper to elaborate boxes, individuals alone to large gatherings in a field, using technology from smoked glass to homemade pinhole projectors, and making use of multiple reflective surfaces, including the Dickinson house windows as Emily’s mother (Jane Krakowski) ignores its beauty entirely.

One of the techniques is to constantly intersperse shots of what people are seeing to shots of what the sun would look like if they could look directly at it, blending out own modern technology with the approximation of what people in the 1800s would have seen and felt — the whole premise of Dickinson itself.