Consolations (Love is an Art of Time)

1988·826'

R. Bruce Elder

Documentary

★ 7.0

Letterboxd TMDB #797691

Bruce Elder's Consolations picks up where Lamentations left off in the purgatory of modern existence, and aspires to regain, and reaffirm, a sense of meaning, goodness, beauty and mystery in the empty simulacra of the dead world. A philosophical meditation on everything from language to consciousness and aesthetics to morality, Consolations is a gargantuan achievement and a key part in Elder's The Book of All the Dead cycle, inspired by Alighieri's Commedia and Pound's Cantos.

Cast

R. Bruce Elder

Seth Feldman

Ellen Ladowsky

Yasmina Ramzy

James D. Smith

Ron Tomlinson