«ASHES AND SNOW». LA SAGESSE DU MONDE PAR GREGORY COLBERT
«ASHES AND SNOW». LA SAGESSE DU MONDE PAR GREGORY COLBERT

Summary/Abstract: Gregory Colbert (born in 1960) is an unusual and singular Canadian filmmaker and photographer. If you have not heard of Colbert before, you are hardly alone. Look at this movie, the power of the images comes less from their recognized beauty than from the way they envelop the viewer in their mood… They are simply windows to a world in which silence and patience govern time. Colbert has faith in that living nature does not have a style, but it has a voice and soul. Ashes and Snow? It is a bestiary, is a description of man's emotional relationship with nature and the wonders of nature. For the Egyptians it would be the falcons, for the Mayans - the jaguars, the elephants would be for the Indians, for the Native Americans Indians it would be the eagle and the buffalo. Every culture had a bestiary, and this culture has not an iota. Ashes and Snow is the world in which man and animals peacefully co-exist, living in each other’s dreams and presents a marvelous vision that transcends time and place…

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