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ON FILM: Movie-makers explore ‘new epiphanies of beauty.’
Beautifully shot and scored, The Space Between the Ages, written and directed by Travis Lee Ratcliff from Austin, Texas, explores the artistic process of Irish sculptor Dony McManus as he works with clay to reveal the beauty of the human person. The stunning short film received the top award and a $500 prize at the “Letter to Artists Short Film Festival,” hosted by the Catholic Art Institute, on April 14.
Director Ratcliff spoke about the unique sense of McManus as an artist, noting that, in his work, he was securing a place in time: “What began to fascinate me as we worked with Dony was the role time and history, both personal and cultural, play in defining out experience of reality. Hopefully, we created a film that has a more substantive emotional core than the typical artist film.”
Twenty-five years ago this Easter, on April 4, 1999, Pope St. John Paul II issued one of the novelest and heartfelt messages of his papacy — the inspiration for this new film festival. The “Letter to Artists” was an invitation to the communities of faith and the arts to acknowledge their mutual need for each other and begin an active rapprochement for the sake of a broken world desperately in need of what the Pope called “new epiphanies of beauty.”
Responding to the 25th anniversary year of this still-vital exhortation, the festival just wrapped its first year, with screenings of award-winning films at the historic Arlington Cinema and Drafthouse in the Washington, D.C., metro area — celebrating cinema and screenplays that explore the impulse to create and the demands of art and beauty, the particular emotional and pragmatic challenges that artists must overcome, and why art matters and how it can heal, connect and spiritually deepen us.
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Beautifully shot and scored, The Space Between the Ages, written and directed by Travis Lee Ratcliff from Austin, Texas, explores the artistic process of Irish sculptor Dony McManus as he works with clay to reveal the beauty of the human person. The stunning short film received the top award and a $500 prize at the “Letter to Artists Short Film Festival,” hosted by the Catholic Art Institute, on April 14.
Director Ratcliff spoke about the unique sense of McManus as an artist, noting that, in his work, he was securing a place in time: “What began to fascinate me as we worked with Dony was the role time and history, both personal and cultural, play in defining out experience of reality. Hopefully, we created a film that has a more substantive emotional core than the typical artist film.”
Twenty-five years ago this Easter, on April 4, 1999, Pope St. John Paul II issued one of the novelest and heartfelt messages of his papacy — the inspiration for this new film festival. The “Letter to Artists” was an invitation to the communities of faith and the arts to acknowledge their mutual need for each other and begin an active rapprochement for the sake of a broken world desperately in need of what the Pope called “new epiphanies of beauty.”
Responding to the 25th anniversary year of this still-vital exhortation, the festival just wrapped its first year, with screenings of award-winning films at the historic Arlington Cinema and Drafthouse in the Washington, D.C., metro area — celebrating cinema and screenplays that explore the impulse to create and the demands of art and beauty, the particular emotional and pragmatic challenges that artists must overcome, and why art matters and how it can heal, connect and spiritually deepen us.
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Revisiting JPII’s ‘Letter to Artists’ Via Cinema
ON FILM: Movie-makers explore ‘new epiphanies of beauty.’
