Shades of Meaning

 

Shades Of Meaning 

16mm, color, sound, 10 min.

© 1986 Andy Moore

A poetic meditation on music and meaning in cinema.  Aurally iconic music fragments (from theater pipe organ recordings) have been cut up, looped, re-composed, and combined with eclectically chosen imagery shot mostly in the western United States.  The result is both a reflection of the artist’s sensibilities and a commentary on commercial media values.  At once a celebration of visual beauty and mystery, and a semiological investigation into how musical codes and imagery combine to create meaning, Shades Of Meaning has been called paradoxical, mystical and elegant, pregnant with multiple meanings and a powerful tool for reflection.

Awards:

Honorable Mention, 1987 San Francisco International Film Festival

Film Prize, 1987 Onion City Film Festival, Chicago

1986/87 Touring package of Black Maria Film/Video Festival

Recent Screening:

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO