Synopsis
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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Edited by Paul Festa
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2006 · Box office
Produced on a $8K budget
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11 unique people credited
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Nancy Kathryn Anderson
as Documentary subject
Jackie Beat
as Documentary subject
Dan Becker
as Documentary subject
Alexandra Beller
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Harold Bloom
Mx Justin Vivian Bond
as Kiki
Angela Warnick Buchdahl
as Documentary subject
Shanti Carson
as Documentary subject
Eisa Davis
as Documentary subject
Sandi Simcha Dubowski
as Documentary subject
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