{"id":966,"date":"2004-02-12T14:26:57","date_gmt":"2004-02-12T20:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=966"},"modified":"2025-01-10T08:56:58","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T14:56:58","slug":"heaven-and-earth-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2004\/02\/12\/heaven-and-earth-magic\/","title":{"rendered":"Heaven and Earth Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Thursday, February 12, 2004, 8pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2009\/07\/heaven_and_earth_magic_03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2272 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2009\/07\/heaven_and_earth_magic_03.jpg\" alt=\"heaven_and_earth_magic_03\" width=\"450\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">A magician dismembers a woman and tries to put her back together.\u00a0 Such is the plot of this unique feature-length animation, created with 19th-century engravings and compulsive single-mindedness by Harry Smith (1923-1991), beatnik musicologist and one of cinema\u2019s greatest outsiders. As its cutout protagonists undertake mystical journeys of uncertain purpose, viewers may imagine they are\u00a0 watching a complex and mysterious civilization flourish and self-destruct.\u00a0 Like a Cornell box come to life, but with a strange, hostile energy all its own, <em>Heaven and Earth Magic<\/em> is absorbing and endlessly interpretable. 16mm (Jim Trainor). 1962, Harry Smith, USA, 66 min, 16mm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, February 12, 2004, 8pm A magician dismembers a woman and tries to put her back together.\u00a0 Such is the plot of this unique feature-length animation, created with 19th-century engravings and compulsive single-mindedness by Harry Smith (1923-1991), beatnik musicologist and one of cinema\u2019s greatest outsiders. As its cutout protagonists undertake mystical journeys of uncertain purpose, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2004\/02\/12\/heaven-and-earth-magic\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Heaven and Earth Magic<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":2272,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[70,423,615],"class_list":["post-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-9","tag-animation","tag-monographic-shows","tag-usa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10087,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions\/10087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}