"Hymn represents Fotopoulos' recent foray into formal, non-narrative abstraction. Shot on digital video, Hymn employs painting, sculpture, light forms, experimental sound and images of hardcore sex to create a unique temporal structure. A true audio-visual composition, Hymn showcases Fotopoulos at his most visionary. Through his mastery of new technologies, he rejects the superficial use of video in contemporary narrative filmmaking in favor of a more rigorous examination of the relationships between perception, art and technology, in the tradition of formal innovators like Stan Brakhage, Michael Snow and Glenn Gould. Yet the full effect of Hymn is entirely Fotopoulos' own. Like his other works, it plays out like a perfectly formed object in time, and an uneasily complex experience not soon forgotten."
- NYUFF
2002, digital video, 90min, color, sound stereo
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