The Experience of the Religious through Silent Moving Image and the Silence of Bill Viola's Passions

With the creationof the moving image at the end of the 19th century a new way of representing and expressing the Religious was born. The cinema industry rapidly understood that film has a powerful way to attract new audiences and transformed the explicit religious message into an implicit theological discourse of the fictional film. Today, the concept of "cinema" needs to be rethought and expanded, as well as the notion of "tTranscendental" since the strong reality effect of the film can allow a true religious experience for the spectator.

Filme, fotografia e memória invisível

The photographic image, either still or moving, is considered a fair and representative archive of past events, given its mirror nature of reproducing the world. However, in their purely documental function, photography or film do not represent the "tone" of the story that was recorded in the images. But it may be that it is the atmosphere that is expressed through the images that is able to awake memory and turn the story not only into something visible but also into something sensible.