Phil Hart (Director & Producer) | 2025 | 6 min.
2026 Official Selection
Stunning, evocative and world-class footage of solar eclipses in Idaho/Wyoming and the Tetons, and Exmouth, Western Australia. With a soundtrack ‘Shine’ by Jason Mraz that was made for this.
Engineer by day, astronomer and photographer by night. Phil Hart has been enjoying and photographing the night sky for more than thirty years. Phil's first total solar eclipse in June 2001 in Zimbabwe changed the course of his life and led him to five years in Scotland where he got addicted to chasing the Aurora Borealis (despite the infamous Scottish weather). His love for such ephemeral astronomical events has gotten increasingly out of hand. What started with a removal company transporting gear to Cairns in 2012 for three Victorian photographers, became 12 cameras across Idaho and Wyoming in 2017. Then showing total disregard for any life lessons that may have been learnt from those expeditions, he wholeheartedly over-committed himself to the Exmouth solar eclipse in April 2023. One failed engine barely hints at the effort, pain and shear hard yakka invested.
