She was an abbess and founder of a benedictine religious community. What else can you call it when richard souther takes the stark, ecstatic plainchant of the 12thcentury abbess and adds heavily produced electronic tranceanddance tracks. Computer vision, a field dealing with how computers can be made to gain understanding from digital images or videos. Born in 1098, she was beset by the most extraordinary religious visions from the age of eightvisions which she wrote down. Hildegard of bingen was one of the most remarkable women of the middle agesan abbess and woman of god, a visionary, naturalist, playwright, political moralist, and composer. The film is a wonderful tribute to one of the most remarkable figures of the middle ages. Hildegard of bingen 10981179 stands out as one of the most visionary and incredibly gifted spiritual women of all time. Tip oneill told us all politics is local, and i suppose that applies as well to a cloistered religious order as to a city. And musical composer some of her liturgical music is still performed today. Lushly shot in original medieval cloisters of the fairytalelike german countryside, vision is a. Yes, it has been used on the dance floor of at least one new york city nightclub. Hildegard was a multitalented, fully grounded, highly intelligent woman who was. A visionary in every sense of the word, this famed 12thcentury benedictine nun was a christian mystic, composer, philosopher, playwright.
The medieval prophetess who used her visions to criticize the church. Saint hildegard, the unruly mystic patron saint of. Vision is shot through with issues of power personal, political, spiritual. The film portrays an original woman best known as a composer and religious visionary whose grand claims often run counter to the patriarchal world around her. A film series on those who woke us up produced by crazy wisdom films, in association with michael conti productions llc, explores the wellness and spiritual connection to creativity, nature and science. A visionary in every sense of the word, this famed 12thcentury benedictine nun was a christian mystic, composer, philosopher, playwright, poet, naturalist, scientist, physician, herbalist and ecological activist. With barbara sukowa, heino ferch, hannah herzsprung, lena stolze. With patricia routledge, janet suzman, peter vaughan, amanda root. Visions cookware, a brand of transparent stove top cookware vision game engine vision mobile browser. From the same label that made chant a surprise pop culture phenomenon, vision is a similar pairing of the ancient with the modern, the spiritual with the commercial, the melodies of a 12th century abbess the head of an abbey of nuns with the music of a 20th century composer. For example jutta, struggling with her jealousy of hildegard s.
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