Narthex
- 2014
- 10m
The film is inspired by the Pieta sculpture of Michelangelo in Rome. The image has become a universally recognized symbol of human suffering and lamentation. In Narthex the beholder sees a d... Read allThe film is inspired by the Pieta sculpture of Michelangelo in Rome. The image has become a universally recognized symbol of human suffering and lamentation. In Narthex the beholder sees a death scene on the bottom of a swimming pool. Water symbolizes baptism, resurrection of the... Read allThe film is inspired by the Pieta sculpture of Michelangelo in Rome. The image has become a universally recognized symbol of human suffering and lamentation. In Narthex the beholder sees a death scene on the bottom of a swimming pool. Water symbolizes baptism, resurrection of the dead, destroying forces and upward supporting forces. Wiersma filmed with a vertical fram... Read all