
Ancient of Days
Ancient of Days
Release date : 1982-10-12
Production country :
United States of America
United States of America
Production company :
National Endowment for the Arts,
New York State Council on the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts,
New York State Council on the Arts
Status : Released
Durasi : 12 Min.
Popularity : 0.0143
7.1
Total Vote : 9
Ancient of Days is a remarkable series of "canons and fugues for video" that comprises Viola's most sophisticated structural and metaphorical explorations of time. Mathematical notations of precise time-code editing were applied to construct illustrations of temporal symmetry, duality and transposition — time-based equivalents of musical compositional principles such as counterpoint and serialism. Astonishing temporal interventions — a 180-degree pan gazing downward on a New York City street that progresses from day to night, an image of Mount Rainier in which the foreground and background unfold in different time planes — unfold as symbolic transformations of natural and urban landscapes.
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