Working with Virgil’s four-part poem “Georgics” and Antonio Vivaldi’s concertos “The Four Seasons” as models, Gottheim arranged his painterly compositions into four distinct sections, each edited according to its own exacting pattern. The seasonal flux thus informs both the form and content of the image, with the basic elements of trees, sky, hills and the occasional crisscrossing clothesline filmed in every imaginable light.
Cinematography
Every imaginable light on trees, sky, hills—pure visual music.
Editing
Structures borrowed from Virgil and Vivaldi, executed with obsessive precision.
Direction
Gottheim's structuralist rigor makes seasonal change feel cosmic.
Director
Larry Gottheim
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Nicholas Ray—yes, that Nicholas Ray, Rebel Without a Cause director—appears in this experimental film late in his career, connecting Hollywood collapse to underground cinema.
Gottheim was part of 1970s American structuralist film; Horizons sits between the 'pure' structuralism of Frampton and the diary films of Mekas, refusing both.
US
