Sotiros

Beavers distilled the 26minute Sotiros in 1996 from an original 50minute trilogy Filmed in Athens and Peloponnesus in Greece as well as in Austria much of Sotiros is structured around another binarism two repeating intertitles marked He said and he said Each title introduces a set of visual phrases with loosely parallel camerawork The images are careful and delicate studies of light patterns in a hotel suite and at a cafe rolling hills populated by a lone shepherd Eurostyle modernized storefronts a blind man begging in the street The films title refers to one of the appellations of the Apollo in his role as savior or healer New York Press