The Great Contra-verses

Spectrum Staff | December 20, 2006

By Alexander Carpenter

Here’s a short film that my brother and I made on Monday and posted on You Tube.

The film explores themes in the Adventist tradition of the Great
Controversy. An attempt to create a meta view of human experience (why
bad things happen to good people, why there are various religions), the
filming of an idea/doctrine allows me to include visual and auditory
(Philip Glass’s symphony no. 3, iv) bridges from me – a student in
Berkeley to the cosmic struggle for justice – far beyond. As with any
representation of religious experience, this “plot” lies essentially
subjective and driven by mysterium tremendum.

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