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so much another film about autism as a film that
is autism through and through, being a highly
individual picture of life seen through one
autistic artists eyes. His very self seen as a
series of sometimes mundane, sometimes poetic
journeys through the landscape of both his
reality and his vision. The film features Larry Arnold, who
is a prominent autistic advocate in the UK.
Through his own
eyes it tells of his world, now in intimate
detail, other times through the distance of
recollection. It is the journey we all take
toward that "unknown country from whose
bourne no traveller returns"
In this unique
artwork the medium and the message are
inextricably intertwined.,the journey is the
journal, la journée, (day in French) before the ending
of which the autistic artist will go his way, a
metaphor that takes us beyond our ordinary lives
and conceptions of what either a drama or a
documentary should be, into the realms of art and
spirituality.
This unique DVD
features the music of Moondog, Palestrina, Tallis
and original compositions as well as the poetry
of the artist himself; John Donne, Shakespeare
and passages from the King James Bible.
So far the project
is incomplete and this page provides samples of
the work in progress, expressions of interest
from potential distributors are invited, as more
detailed samples and an outline can be provided
to those who have a serious commitment to this
project.
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Video
Segments
(Mpeg 160 x 120 resolution)
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| "The
Road not Taken" a stand
alone segment from the complete
work (available for distribution) |
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La Journée
(the first act of "Terra
Incognita"
Warning: this is a very large
file 27mb. |
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| A short documentary about the
making of this project |
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From the
Soundtrack (MP3)
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Kyrie
Eleison
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Variations
on a theme of Thomas Tallis
(original composition)
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Te Lucis
Ante Terminum (with voiceover)
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