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- Two women are seen sitting on either side of a marble cistern in a courtyard, as they wait patiently in silence, only occasionally acknowledging each other's presence, when suddenly a young man's head appears, and then his body rises up.
- Five men, in a composition that recalls a Renaissance painting, are instructed by American video artist Bill Viola to "show pressure, tension, and stress in a general arc of emotion as it enters, manifests, and leaves the body."
- Viola's encounters with older painting and theories of emotional expression, codified in the 17th century by French painter Charles Le Brun, led him to the challenge of showing inbetween states: transitions and ambiguous or mixed emotions.
- Shows the unfolding expressions of five actors in such extreme slow motion that every detail of the changing facial expressions and movements can be detected, exploring the cathartic power within grief, personal suffering, and bereavement.
- Exploring movement, interaction and the face of emotion, five individuals look out - time moves slowly, the camera stays fixed - as they react to some unseen horror, emote and return to their neutral poses, like in a Renaissance painting.
- With the use of a high-speed camera and slowed action, the video depicts in extremely slow motion the subtly changing gestures and facial expressions of five stationary figures as they respond to some unknown memory or unseen event.
- Covers a body of works about overwhelming emotions by American video artist Bill Viola: The Quintet of the Silent (2000), The Quintet of the Astonished (2000), The Quintet of Remembrance (2000), and The Quintet of the Unseen (2000).