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AMERICAN MIRROR: INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY

By Arthur BALDER

Documentary - Completed 2019

On our Instagram or Facebook pages, we show only the best part of ourselves, the "beautiful" part of our lives. We hide in this fake. We are so immersed in the process of creating our ideal virtual personality that we forget about real life. We forget the simple truth that beauty is inside.

- Year of production
- 2019
- Genres
- Documentary, Art - Culture, Experimental
- Countries
- USA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Budget
- 0.3 - 0.6 M$
- Duration
- 60 mn
- Director(s)
- Arthur BALDER
- Cast
- Susan SARANDON, Florence FAIVRE, Tigran TSITOGDHYIAN
- Producer(s)
- Arthur BALDER (DA VINCI FILMS)
- Synopsis
- Oscar-winning screen icon Susan Sarandon and a painter (Tigran Tsitogdhyian) discuss how the apparently in conflict values of beauty and aging are perceived in our social-media obsessed society, as he tries to limn her portrait during a timeless sitting session in his atelier in New York City. With this film the director, Arthur Balder, sets in motion his theory on poetics of cinematic art, by attempting to create the deep conflicts of creativity in a non-linear, challenging story-telling scheme. The fictional formulation of thought-processes, which can be called memories but also 'omens' and other sort of 'visions', imagery occurring in the internal eye in connection with the unconscious and entirely 'subjective', are the quintessential substance of the director's final result. 'Intimations of Immortality' is a reference taken from British Romantic poet William Wordsworth's 'Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood'. For Wordsworth poetry was all about the 'memories' we keep from our most deeply felt living hours.