Apparition of the Eternal Church (2006)
54 min
The movie captures the responses of 31 authors, musicians, filmmakers and dancers to Olivier Messiaen's monumental organ work "Apparition of the Eternal Church." Listening to the 10-minute piece through headphones, the documentary subjects-most of whom are outsiders to the church and do not know what they're hearing-put Messiaen's project to the test: Is it possible to portray, through time-bound, invisible sound, the spiritual, the architectural, the eternal? The result is a collective interpretation improvising its way through an aesthetic landscape defined by violent contradictions. Resolution abuts eternity, eroticism asceticism, spiritual ecstasy physical torture. Together, the music and its interpreters conjure something like what William Blake famously called the marriage of heaven and hell.
- Data de estreia
- 28 de janeiro de 2006
- País de origem
- Estados Unidos
- Orçamento
- US$ 7.500
Elenco
- Nancy Kathryn Anderson como Documentary subject
- Jackie Beat como Documentary subject
- Dan Becker como Documentary subject
- Alexandra Beller como Documentary subject
- Harold Bloom
- Mx Justin Vivian Bond como Kiki
- Angela Warnick Buchdahl como Documentary subject
- Shanti Carson como Documentary subject
- Eisa Davis como Documentary subject
- Sandi Simcha Dubowski como Documentary subject
Equipe
- Paul Festa · Diretor(a)
- Paul Festa · Produtor(a)
- Paul Festa · Diretor(a) de fotografia
- Paul Festa · Editor(a)