Apparition of the Eternal Church

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Apparition of the Eternal Church (2006)

Directed by Paul Festa

Documentary · 54m

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.

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Cast

John Cameron Mitchell Self Jackie Beat Self Justin Vivian Bond Self Ana Matronic Self Daniel Handler Self

Crew

Director
Paul Festa

Details

Release date
2006-01-28
Runtime
54m
Genres
Documentary
Original language
EN
Spoken languages
English
Countries
United States of America
Budget
$7,500