(The Turkish Online Journal of Design Art and Communication, 2012-04) Gil, Ines
Contemporary moving image (film and video) is looking for a new form of expressing the
sacred, after decades of refusing all kinds of explicit “religious” content. The notion of Sacred
changed with the social evolution and today its representation is directly related to the image
of reality, that allows a sincere and immediate contact with the viewer. The body’s image can
be a strong mediator between the expression of the sacred and reality, because it questions the
position of man in the world and its relation to others. Bill Viola and The Dardenne Brothers –
among others, are directors who work with a totally different cinematographic form but they
have the same challenge: to reveal the potential sacred of life through light and image
movement.
