“In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.”
The title refers to the colonnades that led to the shady groves of the ancient Lyceum, here remembered in shots of industrial arcades, bathed in golden morning light, as quietly empty of human figures as Atget’s survey photos. The rest of the film presents luscious shots of a wooded stream and hazy glen, portrayed with the careful composition of 19th century landscape painting. An ineffable, unnameable immanence flows through the images of The Stoas, a kind of presence of the human soul expressed through the sympathetic absence of the human figure.
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Part of My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure
18 films
Winged Dialogue
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Plan of Brussels
Movie · 1968
The Count of Days
Movie · 1969
Palinode
Movie · 1970
Diminished Frame
Movie · 1971
Still Light
Movie · 1971
The Painting
Movie · 1972
From the Notebook of...
Movie · 1972
Work Done
Movie · 1973
Ruskin
Movie · 1974
AMOR
Movie · 1980
Efpsychi
Movie · 1983
Wingseed
Movie · 1985
The Stoas
Movie · 1997
Sotiros
Movie · 2000
The Ground
Movie · 2001
The Hedge Theater
Movie · 2002
Early Monthly Segments
Movie · 2003
Cast
1 person
Robert Beavers Director
United States release October 11, 1997 · Produced in Greece
Production
Greece
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
United States · October 11, 1997
Premiere · New York Film Festival
Canada
September 10, 2000 · Premiere · Toronto Film Festival
Netherlands
February 5, 1999 · Premiere · International Film Festival Rotterdam
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