Friday, July 26

Tag: Fraser Sivewright

Keepers of the Light – The Studio, Edinburgh
Scotland

Keepers of the Light – The Studio, Edinburgh

Written and directed by Izzy Gray this tells the intriguing true story of three lighthouse keepers who disappeared without trace from the Flannan Isle Lighthouse in the Outer Hebrides in 1900.    When the boat bringing the relief keepers arrives at the rock eleven days later, the light is out, the clocks have stopped and there is no sign of any of the men.    The captain of the relief boat searches in vain, growing ever more disturbed by the eerie emptiness.  There is a single oilskin coat left hanging in the mess, seeming to indicate that one of the men left in a hurry.   What catastrophe could have happened to cause all three keepers to vanish?  A freak wave?  Or something more sinister? Today there are no lighthouse keepers, all...