1978 | USA | Experimental

Four Shadows (Elective Affinities, Part III)

  • English - 64 mins
  • Director | Larry Gottheim
  • Writer | Larry Gottheim
  • Producer | Larry Gottheim

STATUS: Released

This film is currently not available.   

Like constellations wheeling round, a double chain of four image segments and four sound segments wheel past each other in 16 combinations - a family of Gibbon apes, a landscape measured, a shadowed diagram after Cezanne, a wintry urban scene, a text by Wordsworth, a climactic scene from Debussy's opera Pelleas et Melisande .... The stately ceremony can generate rich sensuous cinematic pleasure as well as a free-flowing stream of associations. Containment and flowing free - these are some of the issues. The third film in the Elective Affinities cycle.

Experimental Film Elective Affinities Superimposition Sound and Image Painting and Cinema
Playlists