Maria Tucci's Lucia resembles an American matron more than a European free spirit, but despite some uncertainties on opening night, Tucci captures something wayward and childlike in her, floating on her chair above her own memories as hazy projections wash over the stage in waves.
Hazy video projections of the slow dance-like movements of the artists' bodies complement the extremely palpable surroundings, essentially frame for the projections, made of tea-stained silk, dried leaves and other organic materials.
It's designed to provide open-ended, immersive filibusters, balancing projection with hazy memory, marquee voices with obscure bystanders, a charismatic superstar with the accountant who kept the operation afloat.
The science of it remains hazy, but the tornado, a stunning film projection augmented by brain-spearing flashes of light, sends Dorothy and her house through a wormhole in space.
Kevin Foster, leader of the council's Conservative group, said if "you tried to look into the council's projections, everything got a bit hazy".
But military budgeting experts say that a close look at the parts of Ryan's budget proposals that really matter -- the next year or so, rather than farther out, where projections get hazier -- shows a spending line that is largely in step with Obama's requests, which means limited cuts.
Mesirow, looking ghostly in all white, sways and contorts in a dark, hazy space made ambiguous with atmospheric lighting and projections.
As "Contempt" does not allow us to forget, Lang is shooting a movie, and we in the audience are watching one, and here, as in every other movie ever made, we gaze, like Odysseus in this film's gorgeous final shot, at a reality that's a projection of our own desires, an Ithaca turned hazy by artifice and distance.
Upstairs, Laurel Kendall, a curator, greeted them and explained that some of the creatures in the exhibition were real; some were projections from real beasts, "like shadows"; some were hazy reconstructions of real creatures; and some were just completely imaginary beings people make up to scare or impress other people.
