Temenos (1998)

Recommended

UK

Feature Documentary

Writer/Director: Nina Danino

Cinematographers: David Scott, Nick Gordon Smith

Composer: Pavlo Beznosiuk

Cast: Sainkho Namtchylak, Shelley Hirsch, Catherine Bott, Nina Danino, Vicka Ivankovich, Sr. Anne-Marie Magermans, Fille de la Charité, Paris, Madame André Beco, Sandra das Neves Pereira

Nina Danino presents images of barren landscapes from the scenes of reported sightings of the Virgin Mary – in Banneaux, Fatima, Medjugorje, Gibraltar, Paris, Pellevoisin, and London – scoring them to the vocal stylings of various female vocalists, with occasional readings of accounts of witnesses, in this simultaneously ugly and beautiful, disquieting and calming, and haunting and frustrating experimental film. Iain.Stott