The dark valley faded away
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Landscape in the Mist, 1988
Theo Angelopoulos
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Τοπίο στην ομίχλη / Landscape in the Mist
Theodoros Angelopoulos. 1988
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Παραλία Θεσσαλονίκης, Thessaloniki 546 26, Greece
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Theo Angelopoulos | Landscape in the Mist (1988)
“In the beginning, there was chaos and then there was light. And the light was separated from the darkness and the earth from the sea, and the rivers, the lakes, and the mountains were made. And then, the flowers and the trees, the animals, the birds.”
In Landscape in the Mist, we observe as Voula and Alexander wander through barren, industrial landscapes, they play witness and fall victim to the strange dramas acted out around them -- a troupe of actors without a venue to perform, begin to sell off their costumes -- a horse is dragged through the snow & dies while a wedding celebration comes to life in the background -- a man plays the violin for young Alexander before being shooed away by an angry shop owner -- a severed, directionless hand is lifted from the waves. Where is there room for life & for art in a world that has been forsaken of meaning? As the children search for their father, who is or is not real, we see the same story play out again and again around them. The search for meaning is the oldest story we have, but Angelopoulous approaches this idea with the mark of a true artist, he describes rather than explains:
"the true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says ‘less’. There is a certain relationship between the global experience of the artist and the work that reflects that experience […]. That relationship is good when the work is but a piece cut out of experience, a facet of the diamond in which the inner lustre is epitomized without being limited." - Albert Camus
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