Word: gazing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Imbuing the camera's eye with spiritual significance, director Theo Angelopoulos brings us the visually beautiful, yet emotionally challenging "Ulysses' Gaze." Through the story of a director's earnest search for a film reel from the earliest history of cinema, Angelopoulos chronicles a greater quest for lost innocence and an untainted view...
...pronounced architectural character, influenced by Fernand Leger's "tubism" as well as by Vuillard. Grantchester Road, 1975, is an interior with a fireplace, and the indoor plants are of the same pictorial species as the green spreading palms in Hodgkin's Indian paintings. The separation of room and gaze gives Hodgkin's work its basic trope, that of peeping and peering--from culture (the room) into nature (everything else) and back again. It's not about seeing here and now but about the memory of having seen; not complete and ordered possession of a sight but the turbulence of memory...
Light designer Hilary Snow '97 further concentrates the gaze of the audience onto the women through the effective use of lighting. Often, the sheer intensity of the spotlight creates a starkness, in sharp contrast to the outpouring of emotion on stage, which draws the audience in inexorably...
...held beliefs about population flows. It is evident to those of us who have grown to love and cherish this region that it is in danger of becoming much too crowded. Only a few days ago, as a visitor from the East, I would have described the vista I gaze at while writing this as a green landscape pleasantly dappled with humanity. Now that I live here, the same view stands revealed to me as a nightmare vision of teeming masses. Sad to say, it is not possible for everyone who would like to live in this glorious region...
...stratum--a class, needless to say, rather above his. Does this make them insipid? Sometimes, yes, but it can also turn them into vessels of lyric innocence, as in the Girl with a Pearl Earring, 1665-66, with her liquidly painted turban of virginal blue, who turns her shining gaze to meet yours as though she'd never seen another human being...