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  Review by Adam Cloutier

  Bill Viola may be the first filmmaker whose images I can say really do resemble paintings (wonderfully abstract ones, often) but they have even more weight because of the movement of the subjects.

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  Review by Richmond_Hill ★★★★ 2

  Making the known unknown, or realising poetry is already there would but you re-associate it.

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  Review by Emma Fogarty

  Vhsrip van winkle fever dreams
  of the lost tapes desert

  Riders, old ghosts, modern chariots and structures
  sometimes wholly bare or dwarfing lone figures

  Heatwave, heat haze onerics
  sun's auspice, overlording water colourings

  nature's natural light and stray scorch paintings

  I see the blood oasis, the desert's iris
  And isolated peaks

  images of a sand kingdom broadcasted from afar

  Vhsrip van winkle dreams
  from old Bill's camera tricks, captive techniques

  experimental cinema
  one once told me, pictures of a fourth dimension

  Reaching out to us who cannot

  Roasting, warmed portraits
  postcards of a lingering, video hissing desert

  Come one, come all and watch
  the gallery of the grand, collected and preserved....beautiful mirage march....

  ...and none shall find themselves when viewing, by any means parched or starved of beauty....

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  Review by Josiah Morgan ★★★★

  Evolution without reason, such is the way art goes. It's A Portrait In Light And Heat alright, images forced into perspective by the borderline-prophetic shimmering imagery. Shots are defined by shifting heat-waves before the same shots are characterized by any source of light.

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  Review by Mesa Em Cena ★★★★★

  Por Pedrinho

  "[...] E em Um Retrato em Luz e Calor, o corpo se desfaz junto do espaço, a imagem trepida devido ao efeito físico do desvio de luz (quando o calor destorce uma imagem), cada pixel se transforma em uma pincelada, é como se o equipamento tentasse decodificar o mundo (a máquina interpretando o espaço) e disso surge uma série de imagens impressionistas [...] por isso, o movimento do diretor Bill Viola de levar seu equipamento ao limite para tentar registrar o ambiente e retratar corpos que ali estão é “impressionista” e como se apenas livrando-se de qualquer vaidade de tentar representar de maneira realista o espaço e seus objetos ele pudesse ter um retrato verdadeiro, uma real imagem que busca o sentimento contido em uma paisagem [...]"

  Texto completo no nosso blog.

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  Review by John O'Neill ★★★★

  An almost unbearable poem of menace and endurance, light and heat (and the attendant strain, exhaustion, death) made manifest, an ode to video's place in art as much as it is our place in nature. Painterly compositions reminiscent of Rothko and Diebenkorn, Giacometti figures, Strand buildings--and beyond them, this is a portrait in light, not just of it, a mystery of vision, a mirage of the mind.

  I'm also pretty convinced that the best way to view this is on the computer screen, with images shining even more harshly than they would from a gallery's tube television (which, in the case of this work, is still superior to a projected image)--format & function--so here it is on youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nPd_XfYEhg

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  Review by Cameron Lee ★★★★

  Do you ever see in your dreams, all the castles in the sky?