Against the Dying of the Light is a 2001 documentary film about the work of the National Screen and Sound Archive of Wales.
[1] Consisting of interviews with Welsh directors, actors and public figures about the significance that film (particularly amateur film) has played in their lives, it achieved a limited UK cinema release in 2001.
It features interviews with William Lloyd-George, (grandson of David Lloyd George); the actors Rhys Ifans, Donna Edwards and Sue Rodderick; the directors Marc Evans and Karl Francis; and the author Kevin Brownlow.
It was a ten-minute short, for cinema release, funded by the BFI and the Arts Council.
Where the films were powerful enough to speak for themselves, they should be allowed to do so; when they needed context, this would take the form interviews with people who were personally connected to the material itself, be it emotionally or otherwise.The title of the film comes from a villanelle written for his dying father by the twentieth century Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night.