UK producers of #THEBOOKOFVISION executive prod. Terrence Malick director Carlo Hintermann, DOP Jörg Widmer, with Charles Dance, Lotte Verbeek, Sverrir Gudnason
This betrays a deeply materialist view of healing, a symptom of enlightenment man's misunderstanding of medicine. We made THE BOOK OF VISION film to rectify this false understanding of healing.
THE BOOK OF VISION & GEORGE ERNST STAHL:
As someone asked this question, yes, the real life doctor THE BOOK OF VISION film is based on was a real student and practitioner of GEORGE ERNST STAHL's (1659-134) approach to healing and medicine. His first book was in fact titled STAHL-IAN PRACTICE, or Mr. George Ernst Stahl’s Collegium practicalum.
Stahl professed an animistic system, in opposition to the materialism of Hermann Boerhaave and Friedrich Hoffmann. His main argument on living things was that there is an agent responsible for delaying this decomposition of living things and that agent is the anima or soul of the living organism. The anima controls all of the physical processes that happen in the body. It not only just controls the mechanical aspects of it but the direction and goals of them too. How the anima controls these processes is through motion. He believed that the three important motions of the body are the circulation of blood, excretion and secretion.
These beliefs were reflected in his views on medicine. He thought that medicine should deal with the body as a whole and its anima, rather than the specific parts of a body. Having knowledge on the specific mechanical parts of the body is not very useful. His views had been criticized by Gottfried Leibniz, with whom he exchanged letters, later published in a book titled Negotium otiosum seu σκιαμαχία (1720).Also, during the first part of the 18th century, Stahl's ideas on the non-physical part of the body were disregarded while his mechanistic ideas on the body were accepted in the works of Boerhaave and Hoffmann... So we brought Stahl's ideas back from the dead in THE BOOK OF VISION film:
I will be introducing & screening THE BOOK OF VISION film at CAMPOUT 2023:
CAMPOUT 2023 Line up announced!
Campout is a grassroots gathering where we will explore the core themes of community building, decentralisation, healthy living, personal empowerment, systemic change and reconnecting with each other and nature.
Join over 200+ people who have already booked tickets at https://t.co/o00v2XREYY
Producer of feature film The Book of Vision @robinmonotti speaks to CofE Rev @jfronkl on the problem of spirituality in western medicine and the need in a post-Covid world for a more integral and holistic approach to health and healing. Enjoy!
https://t.co/aT9AxcwDpY
📖 THE BOOK OF VISION 👁
Executive producer Terrence Malick
Starring Charles Dance, Lotte Verbeek, Sverrir Gudnason
Directed by Carlo Hintermann
🇬🇧 Now out on VOD 🎞 :
https://t.co/XlMwj7jxzJ
📖 THE BOOK OF VISION 👁
From UK producers @robinmonotti & @veragraziadei
With executive producers Terrence Malick (The Tree of Life) and Franc Roddam (Quadrophenia)
And starring Charles Dance
🇬🇧 Out on VOD 13th March
"As you’d expect given that rationalism, animism, the futility of existence, and all kinds of psychedelic imagery are all in play simultaneously, THE BOOK OF VISION has proven itself to be a polarizing experience." https://t.co/Ntjxa0Hm6A
"The Book of Vision has proven itself to be a polarizing experience. There’s nothing quite like it, ..but for the on-demand crowd at the very least, The Book of Vision has proven a worthwhile watch."
📺 🇬🇧 OUT ON VOD in the UK from 13th March.
https://t.co/Ntjxa0Hm6A
We’re excited to welcome back British screen and stage icon, Charles Dance, to The Rex on Saturday!
Charles is joining us for a live Q&A following a screening of #TheBookofVision 🎥
Please note the earlier start time of 6:30pm.
Book your ticket here👇
https://t.co/7HnHGWAWNb
We’re excited to welcome back British screen and stage icon, Charles Dance, to The Rex on Saturday!
Charles is joining us for a live Q&A following a screening of #TheBookofVision 🎥
Please note the earlier start time of 6:30pm.
Book your ticket here👇
https://t.co/7HnHGWAWNb
THE BOOK OF VISION:
"Carlo Hintermann's film has beauty, originality & intellectual ambition."
The Times ★★★
"Like a Vermeer come to life."
The Guardian ★★★
"The Book Of Vision is a bold and uncompromising feature debut from Italian documentarian Carlo Hintermann..the film is beautifully shot."
@Screendaily#TheBookofVision
https://t.co/YfuwfwOQYr
"In asking if modern medicine has lost an important element of spirituality, it blends two storylines. A film that sticks in your mind" - The Times ★★★