Screening + Discussion: Larry Gottheim's "Four Shadows"

"Like constellations wheeling round, a double chain of four image segments and four sound segments wheel past each other in 16 combinations – a family of Gibbon apes, a landscape measured, a shadowed diagram after Cezanne, a wintry urban scene, a text by Wordsworth, a climactic scene from Debussy's opera Pelleas et Melisande.... The stately ceremony can generate rich, sensuous, cinematic pleasure as well as a free-flowing stream of associations. Containment and flowing free – these are some of the issues." -Larry Gottheim

Four Shadows is the third film in Gottheim's "Elective Affinities" cycle. It screened in the Biennial Exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1978, as well as the Berlin Film Festival.

Four Shadows will be projected digitally in the FMC Screening Room, with Gottheim in attendance to discuss the film and answer audience members' questions.