“Pindar's fine remark respecting the different effects of Music, on different characters, holds equally true of Genius - as many as are not delighted by it are disturbed, perplexed, irritated. The beholder either recognizes it as a projected form of his own Being, that moves before him with a Glory round its head, or recoils from it as a Spectre."
- S. T. Coleridge, Aids to Reflection (1825)
“The latest work from the maker of Migrating Forms and Back Against the Wall (2001), Christabel takes a sharp turn for Fotopoulos away from narrative and towards pure abstraction. Based on the unfinished Gothic epic by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christabel is presented in four segments, following the structure of the poem: two ‘parts’ shot and projected on digital video, and two ‘conclusions’ shot and projected on 16mm. Fotopoulos' work transforms many of the poem's structural punctuations and evocative literary images into new visual and aural forms.”
– Ed Halter, New York Underground Film Festival
2001, 16mm and digital video, 74 min, color, sound mono (video taped and filmed 2000)
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