
Intimations of immortality. Audiovisual work.
Indicios de Inmortalidad. Obra Audiovisual.
Jorge Luis Farjat
This bilingual book is about the audiovisual inspired literaryally in William Wordsworth’s poem and made with a montage on the homonymous music of Gerald Finzi, and in turn completed with a symphonic poem by Charles H. Parry, bringing these famous works together in one work. Starring children and adolescents, it closes the author’s first period of performances (1976-1979).
This audiovisual consisting of the language of still images (photographs) with sound was made in 1977 and is therefore supported only by music, as is characteristic of this its first cycle,
lyrically evoking the intentional pantheistic and neoplatonic vision of the Universe of Poetry of Wordsworth. The plastic of the image was inspired by classic pictorial and sculptural motifs, and the photograph was made using as a background the remains of the ancient walls of the old Cathedral of Avellaneda, province of Buenos Aires, indications of what was a classic architecture that was deployed in columns, arcades, pediments and capitals today that were already non-existent and thus become documented before its final removal.
The theme of immortality that remains thematically in the poem is deeply related to the immortality of the soul, which Wordsworth closely linked to the state that persists exclusively during childhood. From there the author’s choice to employ children as protagonists.
The literary work attaches a profuse iconographic selection with numerous photographs of the audiovisual, and chapters related to musical and literary inspiration, about the assembly, production history and protagonists, and the points of connection with the Audiovisual Theory of the author.
Música: Gerarld Finzi (1901-1956)