Horizons

Horizons

8.5

Jul 01 1973

1h 17m

Working with Virgil’s four-part poem “Georgics” and Antonio Vivaldi’s concertos “The Four Seasons” as models, Gottheim arranged his painterly compositions into four distinct sections, each edited according to its own exacting pattern. The seasonal flux thus informs both the form and content of the image, with the basic elements of trees, sky, hills and the occasional crisscrossing clothesline filmed in every imaginable light.

Ken Jacobs

Ken Jacobs

Nicholas Ray

Nicholas Ray

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