Apocalypsis

This movie is I don't want to resort to calling this movie a spectacle of intensity. Intensity is a lazy way of phrasing nothing; no thoughts properly conveyed. What I experience was more intricate and serving of a more apt description. Eric Leiser presents us the audience with visions accompanied by a marvelous music composed by his brother Jeff that really serve to immerse the viewer in the vision more so. The word vision over used so it doesn't evoke what I want it to evoke, but what else can I say? Just as the Book of Revelations is filled with John recounting various visions he is experiencing so is Eric immersing us in these visions by having the main character; Evelyn having visions while reading the book of revelation. Eric Leiser seems to be a product of world cinema and experimental cinema. Bergman said of Tarkovsky that he "captures life as a reflection; life as a dream." When I say that Eric emerses us, the viewers, in a vision, I mean it in the same sense that I imagine Berman says of the nature of Tarkovsky's films. Eric Leiser profoundly with reverence approaches the Book of Revelation; emerses the viewers in this vision of visions. It's some sort of patch work like some sort of tapestry both in the structure of the film and the nature of the content. This movie feels like at times a random passion project cyberpunk web series you randomly stumble upon on you tube, then it feels like some sort of folk art, then it feels like more of a Tarkovsky or Parajanov or Svankmajer film. Apocalypsis brings to the mind the work of the likes of Stan Brakhage or Apichatpong Weerasethakul or the last couple films of Carlos Reygadas or the more recent work of Terrence Malick. I also feel comfortable comparing it to a movie like On the Silver Globe. There's a consistent spiritual thread for the main character (Evelyn) follows all while juxtaposing her faith with people with whom she's close with but have very different perspectives on the nature of the universe, but of course Evelyn's journey takes center stage because while she's reading revelations she begins to get bombarded with visions; and these visions that Eric works towards portraying. In which at points certain torments surface and the struggle portrayed in revelation is really felt.