Movie: Four Shadows

Top 6 Billed Cast

Takahiko Iimura
飯村隆彦

Jonas Mekas
Jonas Mekas

Peter Kubelka
Peter Kubelka

Klaus Wyborny
Klaus Wyborny

Heinz Emigholz
Heinz Emigholz

Larry Gottheim
Larry Gottheim

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    Four four-minute image sections and four four-minute sound sections are linked in all combinations of the sound sections with each of the image sections. This established affinities between each of the image sections to the others, and the sound sections to each other. The image sections are: surveyors measuring the land near my house as seen through an old window, a family of Siamang Gibbon apes in the Washington zoo, an industrial site, and a page turned from a book on Cézanne’s composition showing a diagram of his painting Mardi Gras, filmed against bright leaves. The sound sections are: a dramatic scene from Debussy’s opera “Pelléas et Mélisande”, a passage from William Wordworth’s autobiographical poem “The Prelude,” sounds from rowing on a lake at night, and the sounds of the apes vocalizing.

  • Release Date

    1978-10-03

  • Average

    7

  • Rating:

    3.5 starts
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  • Languages:

    English

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