Rapture is a tightly controlled visual statement about the abandonment of the self to heightened transportive states. It is also an exploration of the similarity between ‘religious’ and ‘visionary’ ecstasy and psychotic states. It illustrates the inarticulateness of pain – the inadequacy of a recording device to capture the radical subjectivity of pain, or ecstasy.
Also in this combined programme
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Attention: Light!
A replica of a lost film that Paul Sharits made to the rhythms of Chopin’s music in Robakowski’s apartment in 1981. -
Scenes From Under Childhood Section #1
A visualisation of the inner world of foetal beginnings, the infant, the baby, the child – a shattering of the ‘myths of childhood’ through revelation -
Wintercourse
Considered destroyed, this early ‘haiku-metaphor film’ was rediscovered in summer of 1985. The film is about Sharit’s first marriage. -
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 1987
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2008
- Length
- 17'
- Medium/Format
- Betacam SP