Prelude (Foreplay/Mourning)

Prelude (Foreplay/Mourning)

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 2012

Runtime

0h 18m

Original Title

Prelude (Foreplay/Mourning)

Director

Konrad Steiner

Description

Eight films to music, music-to-poetry, and poetry. The film takes its title from the first shot, a single take set to Fauré's setting of "Au bord de l'eau" by René-François Sully-Prudhomme. The image shows a tree in bloom near a stream, during an extraordinarily long warm streak in February, a dream of spring in the middle of winter outside Chicago. A false spring that doomed the exuberant tree's fruit.