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anchoring us in reality while pushing at the existential boundaries. This is precise-
ly what Carruth’s post-secular parables accomplish: through the blending of realist
and formalist cinematic styles in science fiction rooted in physical science (Primer)
and haptic spirituality (Upstream Color), audiences encounter what Richard Kear-
ney calls epiphanies, “the consecration of ordinary moments of flesh and blood this-
ness as something strange and enduring”, a “transfiguring instant” which “happens
in the gaps, in the breaks of linear temporality when an eternal now […] explodes
the continuum of history”.58 Indeed, akin to Andrei Tarkovsky’s own sci-fi parable,
Stalker (USSR 1979), Carruth’s epiphanic cinema is truly sculpting in time.59
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JRFM
Journal Religion Film Media, Band 06/01
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- JRFM
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- Journal Religion Film Media
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- Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati
- Herausgeber
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