Thank You Jesus for the Eternal Present

“‘Thank You Jesus for the Eternal Present’ posits, in ingeniously compact visual/aural form, a multitude of eternal dichotomies, among them darkness and light, and the psychic separation of spiritual/sexual (inward) vs. material/sexual (outward) striving. “Instead of a ying/yang antimony: God and the Devil in female guise. The fervently whispered prayers of the woman whose face is seen in close-up have transported her to a nearly sexual, religious ecstasy; and each reappearance of the worldly, sexually powerful ‘corporation’ woman is heralded by a sharp, synchronous thunderclap and camera flash. Yet it is she – the world woman, Venus in furs – full colour, in glory, who nods in assent, in sole possession of the screen at film’s end.” – John Luther Schofill