Sabda (Home Use)

Inspired by Indian poetry, philosophy, and religion, video artist Daniel Reeves set out on his own mystical journey through India. SABDA is his lyrical video poem, a collaboration with some of the great Indian medieval poets. In it Reeves succeeds as few Westerners have in revealing the complex reality that is India. The tape is a visual rhapsody of exquisite, luminous, slow-motion imagery. Reeves’s movement vocabulary ranges from breathless still images of a moon between two trees to wide, sweeping arcs that shift ground and transport the viewer into a mental state where Shiva indeed seems to dance amid the flames. Loosely swinging his camera, Reeves addresses the eye level of a tiny child or soars heavenward, as though flinging his camera into the air. His sensuous camera movements are like the gestures of a dancer. Their subtlety and grace are further enhanced by digital video effects which produce an illusory sense of reality: In one poignant scene, a woman beggar stands, solid despite her fragile frame,

Channel: TV Guide Video Length: 16m 0s Date Found: Wed, Jul 08 2009 7:55 PM Category: Entertainment Date Produced: Tue, Jul 07 2009 12:00 AM View Count: 0