Overhead, during four of the seven movements, gently whimsical films by Josh Dorman, in which archaic images of people, animals and machines floated through impossible, cloudlike pastel landscapes, complemented the tone of the performance without literally interpreting the music.
The 100th anniversary of the start of the first world war comes complete with archaic images of soldiers in helmets and puttees, but the second world war, which began only 25 years later, seems as though it started the day before yesterday.
Moreover, archaic mythic images gain a second life as science metaphors.
Jung described archetypes as archaic, innate images deriving from the collective unconscious.
The one featuring Daniel Radcliffe as Harry shows him grimly wielding a gleaming sword covered in archaic runes, an image that seems borrowed from "The Lord of the Rings" and calculated to appeal to that trilogy's older demographic.
En route he explores the farther reaches of that key phenomenon of the era: spiritualism; he brings to life a number of remarkable individuals; he illuminates the Victorian novel and Victorian painting; he celebrates the archaic power, in image and in legend, of the forest itself.
In the biblical framework and rendering (and subsequent interpretation), the archaic stories and images acquire a different meaning, suitable to the idea of a transcendent deity and an imperfect humankind.
And in some cases (I'm looking at you Snapchat), the real value of these photos is knowing that they'll quickly be lost to the ages, a pointed rejection of the archaic permanence of images chemically etched on dead tree material.
It's one of those odd, seemingly out of nowhere sayings of Jesus that are sometimes hard to understand and apply to modern life because they're full of archaic language and images that have little or no bearing on the modern world.
However, sexual assault and aggravated sexual assault comes in forms beyond this archaic and Hollywood-inspired image of an attack.
