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Film / 1982
Illuminated Texts
Directed by
R. Bruce Elder
"Breathtaking in its techniques, rhapsodic in its passion, and encyclopedic in its scope, the film traces the long fall from paradise into modern barbarism." - Art Gallery of Ontario
The story
"Breathtaking in its techniques, rhapsodic in its passion, and encyclopedic in its scope, the film traces the long fall from paradise into modern barbarism." - Art Gallery of Ontario
In the same saga
The Book of All the Dead
In release order
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Look! We Have Come Through!
The Art of Worldly Wisdom
Sweet Love Remembered
Trace
1857 (Fool's Gold)
This filmIlluminated Texts
Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World, Part 1: The Dream of the Last Historian
Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World, Part 2: The Sublime Calculation
Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 1: The Fugitive Gods
Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 2: The Lighted Clearing
Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 3: The Body and the World
Flesh Angels
Newton and Me
Azure Serene
Exultations: In Light of the Great Giving
Burying the Dead (Into the Light)
Et Resurrectus Est
Cast
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