CinemaOSMovie · 2006 · 0h 54m

Apparition of the Eternal Church

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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.

Directed byPaul Festa

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Status
Released
Runtime
0h 54m
Language
EN
Released
January 28, 2006
Budget
$7,500

Featuring

Cast & crew

5 credited
Starring
John Cameron Mitchell

John Cameron Mitchell

Self

Jackie Beat

Jackie Beat

Self

Justin Vivian Bond

Justin Vivian Bond

Self

Ana Matronic

Ana Matronic

Self

Daniel Handler

Daniel Handler

Self

Creative team
Directed by
Paul Festa

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