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Four Shadows

Oct 3, 1978 · 1h 7m
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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.

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CAST

Takahiko Iimura
Jonas Mekas
Peter Kubelka
Klaus Wyborny
Heinz Emigholz
Larry Gottheim
Directed by Larry Gottheim

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Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
—
Revenue
—
Country
US

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