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  • 54 min | Documentary
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Apparition of the Eternal Church (2006)
54 min | Documentary

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 ...See moreThe 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. Written by Paul Festa See less
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Jan 28, 2006 (United States)
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Nancy Kathryn Anderson
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Jackie Beat
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Dan Becker
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Alexandra Beller
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Angela Warnick Buchdahl
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Shanti Carson
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Eisa Davis
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Sandi Simcha Dubowski
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Manoel Felciano
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Albert Fuller
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Ron Gallman
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Ricky Ian Gordon
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Marga Gómez
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Daniel Handler
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Karen Hartman
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Jasper James
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Wayne Koestenbaum
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John Cameron Mitchell
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Elizabeth Povinelli
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Tony Quintana
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John Rogers
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Tex Sage
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Sarah Sanford
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Ned Stresen-Reuter
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