Vigil

Streaming video - 1984

Vigil is the first ever film from New Zealand to compete in Cannes (1984). Winner of the Best Film award at the Madrid Film Festival it is the first feature film of 30 year-old Vincent Ward. Vigil is a powerful atmospheric drama set in a primeval valley where four characters live and farm in an uneasy coexistence. The story unfolds through the eyes of the central character Toss, an 11 year-old girl caught up in the tragedy of her father’s death and the arrival of a stranger, Ethan. Ward spent five years making this mystical testimony to the beauty and immutability of nature's laws and the circle of life and death.

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Subjects
Genres
Feature films
Published
[San Francisco, California, USA] : New Zealand Film Commission 1984.
2017.
Language
English
Online Access
A Kanopy streaming video
Cover Image
Item Description
Title from title frames.
In Process Record.
Film
Physical Description
1 online resource (streaming video file) (90 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Playing Time
01:29:45
Format
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Access
AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, HILLS, AND LONE TREE (IA).