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Ancient of Days (1982)
Directed by Bill Viola
Documentary · 12m
Ancient of Days is a remarkable series of "canons and fugues for video" that comprises Viola's most sophisticated structural and metaphorical explorations of time. Mathematical notations of precise time-code editing were applied to construct illustrations of temporal symmetry, duality and transposition — time-based equivalents of musical compositional principles such as counterpoint and serialism. Astonishing temporal interventions — a 180-degree pan gazing downward on a New York City street that progresses from day to night, an image of Mount Rainier in which the foreground and background unfold in different time planes — unfold as symbolic transformations of natural and urban landscapes.
Crew
- Director
- Bill Viola
- Director of Photography
- Kira Perov
Details
- Release date
- 1982-10-12
- Runtime
- 12m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts