Mouches Volantes (1976)

• 86%
• 1976

The second-in-Larry Gottheim's ELECTIVE AFFINITIES zyklus, MOUCHES VOLANTES is, in the filmmaker' ' s own words, "a celebration of elusive relationships" between sound and image, color and black-and-white, the moon and the waves, the aural "testimony of Blind Willie Johnson' s widow Angelina and the camera's illumination of a world of simultaneously and beyond the everyday. These lyrical fragmente "sweep" in and out, as with the tides; a time-based symmetry slowly emerges as the film reveals itself to be a perfect circle.