Shapes projected onto an abstract environment. The movement and scale of the forms in the film is a beautiful equivalent of the dynamics of the soundtrack
Déserts was created to accompany a live performance of the work of avant-garde composer Edgard Varèse (1885-1965). The Ensemble Modern, a contemporary music group based in Frankfurt, commissioned Viola to create a visual score for Varèse's Déserts after discovering notes by the composer referring to an unrealized image component of his composition. The resulting film/videotape was produced with the European television stations ZDF/Arte. In October 1994 Viola's Déserts premiered in a live performance in Vienna with conductor Peter Eötvös and the Ensemble Modern
Based on two poems by Rafael Alberti, Garabatos (“Scribbles”) is a reflection on childhood, education and the demise of innocence. Music by Pierre Henry, Pierre Schaeffer and Edgard Varèse.
Animações (únicas partes em núcleos no filme) e imagens, muitas delas de arquivo e estrangeiras, ilustram que a noção de tempo está associada ao movimento e sua medida é executada pela rotação da Terra em torno do seu eixo e do Sol . O ângulo de inclinação da Terra neste último movimento também marca as estações climáticas. Da necessidade de maior rigor na medição do tempo surgiram os gnômons e os quadrantes solares, para cuja leitura se utiliza a numeração duodecimal. Com base nesta numeração se estabeleceram os fusos horários e os engenhos mecânicos de medida, ilustrados pelo mecanismo do relógio com sino de uma igreja. A evolução da astronomia determina a criação de aparelhos eletrônicos mais precisos para a avaliação do tempo, como a luneta meridiana, a câmara de Markowitz, os osciladores eletrônicos e o telescópio, com os quais os astrônomos trabalham no Observatório Nacional.
Poème Électronique is an 8-minute piece of electronic music by composer Edgard Varèse, written for the Philips Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair. The Philips corporation commissioned Le Corbusier to design the pavilion, which was intended as a showcase of their engineering progress. The pavilion was shaped like a stomach, with a narrow entrance and exit on either side of a large central space. As the audience entered and exited the pavilion, the electronic composition Concret PH by Iannis Xenakis (who also acted as Le Corbusier's architectural assistant for the pavilion's design) was heard. Poème électronique was synchronized to a film of black and white photographs selected by Le Corbusier which touched on vague themes of human existence.
Although loved by a respectable doctor, a society-girl is fascinated by a prince and follows him to Rome. When he reveals himself in his true colours, she has a nervous breakdown and her faithful doctor restores her to health - and to himself.
Um cientista filantropo testa fórmula em si mesmo, com o intuito de provar que os instintos benévolos e malévolos de uma mesma pessoa podem ser retidos em corpos diferentes. Entretanto, com o passar do tempo, o avatar de sua maldade (sob o nome de Mr. Hyde) passa a dominá-lo por completo e fazer mal contra todos os que estão ao seu redor…
