Larry Gottheim : Elective Affinities Collection ( Horizons / Mouches Volantes / Four Shadows / Tree of Knowledge )

Larry Gottheim : Elective Affinities Collection (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Horizons / Mouches Volantes / Four Shadows / Tree of Knowledge
Language Selections:
English ( Mono )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
268 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White
Booklet

Movie filmed in 1973-1981 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Larry Gottheim

Written By:
Larry Gottheim

Synopsis:

Horizons: Working with Virgil's four-part poem 'Georgics' and Antonio Vivaldi's concertos 'The Four Seasons' as models, Gottheim arranged his painterly compositions into four distinct sections, each edited according to its own exacting pattern. The seasonal flux thus informs both the form and content of the image, with the basic elements of trees, sky, hills and the occasional crisscrossing clothesline filmed in every imaginable light. Mouches Volantes: The second in Larry Gottheim's ELECTIVE AFFINITIES cycle, MOUCHES VOLANTES is, in the filmmaker's own words, 'a celebration of elusive relationships' between sound and image, color and black-and-white, the moon and the waves, the aural testimony of Blind Willie Johnson's widow Angelina and the camera's illumination of a world simultaneously of and beyond the everyday. These lyrical fragments sweep in and out as with the tides; a time-based symmetry slowly emerges as the film reveals itself to be a perfect circle. Four Shadows: Like constellations wheeling round, a double chain of four image segments and four sound segments wheel past each other in sixteen combinations (a family of Gibbon apes, a landscape measured, a shadowed diagram after Paul Cézanne, a wintry urban scene, a text by William Wordsworth, a climactic scene from Claude Debussy's opera 'Pelleas et Melisande'). Tree of Knowledge: It started with filming the tree. Something was released in that manner of filming seemingly farthest removed from the procedure of the early films. I first thought a simple ordering of this rich material might be enough, something related to BARN RUSHES […] But the film only came into its form-life with the idea of linking this deep-rooted and far-outreaching tree material with that film on paranoia that had fascinated me for many years.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 17 March, 2024.