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Title: MOSQUE IN TIME, A
Alternate Title: MOSQUE IN TIME, A: THE GREAT MOSQUE OF CORDOBA FROM THE EIGHTH TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
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Data: 8 min. col. video
Year: 1990
Country of Prod'n: United States
Language: English
Producing Agency: Program for Art on Film, a joint venture of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The J. Paul Getty Trust
Sources: Program for Art on Film
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Director: Edin Velez
Producer: Ethel Velez
Executive Producer:
Writer: Jerrilynn Dodds
Camera: Jerry Feldman
Editor: Frank Markward
Narrator: Beatrice Roth; John Leighton
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Music Composer: Gavin Bryars
Art Consultant: Jerrilynn Dodds
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Addl Credits: Prod. Mgr.: Nuria Gutierrez; Consultant: Christian Ewert; Consultant: Juan Zozaya Stabel Hansen; Add'l Editing: Christopher James; Electronic Graphics: Joyce Abrams
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Synopsis: Originally built by Abd ar-Rahman I in the eighth century, the Great Mosque of Cordoba in Spain was consecrated a Christian church in 1236. Video artist Edin Velez, in collaboration with art historian Jerrilynn Dodds, uses a complex layering of images and split screens to deconstruct the architectural space and the forms of Islamic and Christian ornament that intertwine two cultures alienated in time but bound together in this extraordinary space.
Genre Film: Documentary; Visual Essay
Aud./Grade Level: General
Suggested Uses: General Information
Subject Headings: Islamic art -- Europe -- Spain -- Cordoba -- 8C
Architecture -- Mosques; Cathedrals; Ornament -- Europe -- Spain -- Cordoba -- 8C

Assoc Concepts: Architecture and religion
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Artist on Camera: No
Reviews: Art on Screen Close-Ups, Fall 92
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Evaluation: Lush, rich interpretation of the mosque. Fresh attempt to transmit the variety and complexity with which we experience architecture, presenting a multiplicity of details with video layering and split-screen. Goes for mood and aesthetics over information. Some of the images are really very beautiful, striking, satisfying. But also kaleidoscopic, so we don't see the relations of parts to whole, and selected details (decorative motifs, ornamental bands, and spandrels) are not situated in their architectural context. Serves as a poetic introduction, leaving viewer wanting more information about the history and iconography behind the startling and dramatic transition from Moorish to Christian cultures. Technical quality very good. Content and programming potential both good to very good.
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