THE SILENT EYE is a feature length, single-channel work that charts the delicate collaboration between free jazz pioneer Cecil Taylor and Butoh performer Min Tanaka over three days in Taylor’s Brooklyn home.

Single channel video installation

Commissioned by:
Whitney Museum

Curators:
Jay Sanders, Lawrence Kumpf

Duration:
70 mins

Other Screenings:

“The film savors a glimmering quality, observing what looks like a private ritual.” - Steve Dollar, WSJ

“The new work from filmmaker Amiel Courtin-Wilson is all about that lucid eye, the spectral death dance that cinema orchestrates between the physical and the spiritual. Courtin-Wilson’s camera has the effect of transforming the intimate into the infinite… Extraordinary… Courtin-Wilson gets cinema as art’s temporal vessel, the craft that navigates dimensions and disrupts our learned cognition.” - Luke Goodsell, RealTime