Reviews of AFI Festival Screenings : <i> Following are reviews for the American Film Institute Film Festival. All screenings are at the Cineplex Odeon Century Plaza Cinemas unless otherwise indicated. : </i> : TODAY
‘Bill Viola Videos’
U.S.A., 1979-83, 80 minutes, 8 p.m. Warner Building, AFI, 2021 N. Western Ave., Hollywood These works--the tricky, fugal “Ancient of Days,” the edgy, metronomic “Anthem,” and the rapt and contemplative “Hatsu-Yume”--are, in a way, video painting. Viola’s wordless, starkly beautiful images and super-realistic stereo sound tracks recall the effects of minimalist New Age jazz; they play better as background than absorbing spectacle. Recommended for devotees of the experimental.
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