Babette Mangolte – The Sky on Location (1983)
THE SKY ON LOCATION, 1982, 16mm 78 min. Color
On location in the American West,
Co-produced with Zweites Deutches Fernsehen, West Germany.
“Is it possible to confront nature with a real purity of vision? The Sky on Location is a personal meditation on the landscape of the American west that tracks the ruling conception in nature in the 19th and 20th centuries from the pioneers through the instamatic tourists, at the same time that it obsessively follows the four seasons. The elemental vicissitudes of the weather, the exact moment of the day, the color of the light and the soil and the trees form an acute visual record of the constantly changing mood of the landscape. The film successfully attempts, with quiet, passionate, almost single-minded firmness, to confront us as nakedly as possible with our cultural inability to see nature whole, without preconceptions.” – Ernest Larsen
The landscape is not seen in its postcardish grandeur as captured in the photographs of Ansel Adams, nor through its shapes as in paintings by Cezanne or Constable, but rather the film captures the mood of the landscape as in a Turner painting. The film attempts to construct a geography of the land from North to South, East to West and season-to-season through colors instead of maps. – BM
5.52GB | 1h 17m | 1920×1080 | mkv
https://nitro.download/view/1C305C8B7777B13/The_Sky_On_Location.mkv
Language:English
Subtitles:None
