by Micki Mihich
“Illuminations is art paying homage to art. If it weren’t enough the blending together of literature, music, painting and corporal expression in cinema’s basic structure, here the filmmaker uses cinema to pay homage to these artistic elements in their pure forms. Here, a painter depicts in his work a duo of dancers performing under the music that inspired the very choreography displayed. We have, therefore, music provoking dance provoking painting. We also have literature and cinema as muses (…).”