Apparition of the Eternal Church is a documentary with a simple concept: we watch people's reactions and listen to their comments as they listen to music on headphones.
Not much to write home about. But wait: this is actually a pretty amazing movie. Director Paul Festa sets it up so that we see and hear some talking/listening heads, mostly in tight shots. We don't know what they're listening to and we don't even know who most of them are. All we get for the first half of the movie is their extraordinary range of reactions: morbid, funny, perplexed, enthralled, sarcastic, annoyed, awed, meditative.
During the second half of the hour-long film, we get to hear some of the music and we learn at the end who the listeners are -- no way are we going to include spoilers here. In all, an absorbing and exhilarating film about the power of music.
The DVD is available for purchase on the website.
written on Tuesday Apr 17, 2007
music,
mood,
movie.
