Apparition of the Eternal Church (2006)
54m
Running Time
January 28, 2006Release Date
Apparition of the Eternal Church (2006)
54m
Running Time
January 28, 2006Release Date
Plot.
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 & Crew.

John Cameron Mitchell
Self

Jackie Beat
Self

Nancy Kathryn Anderson
Documentary subject

Justin Vivian Bond
Self

Ana Matronic
Self

Daniel Handler
Self

Alexandra Beller
Documentary subject

Harold Bloom
Actor

Paul Festa
Director

Angela Warnick Buchdahl
Documentary subject

Shanti Carson
Documentary subject

Eisa Davis
Documentary subject

Sandi Simcha Dubowski
Documentary subject
Details.
This Movie Is About.
hell
catholicism
organ music
messiaen