![]() “It’s more than a documentary in the sense that it engages everything: the aesthetic sense, the excitement of the investigation, the multimedia, all the senses,” Spitzer said of the film.įather Robert J. Spitzer is the institute’s president and co-founder. ![]() ![]() On Friday night, July 28, Spitzer joined Orlando for a 15-minute sneak peek of the film followed by a question-and-answer session during the Napa Institute’s annual summer conference in Napa, California. Spitzer, SJ, the Jesuit scholar, author, and popular EWTN television host. The film features interviews with experts from both sides of the debate, including American historian and Princeton Theological Seminary professor Dale Allison, Cheryl White of the Shroud of Turin Education and Research Association, and Mark Goodacre, television director, New Testament scholar, and professor at Duke University’s Department of Religion.įather Andrew Dalton, LC, STD, professor of theology at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum in Rome, who wrote the foreword for Orlando’s book, also appears in the film, as does Father Robert J. Orlando, who has written a book by the same title, frames his subject as a contemporary “true crime” investigation, employing recreated scenes and edgy visual effects to give the film an artsy vibe. Meanwhile, ever more sophisticated tests of the cloth’s pollen, bloodstains, and its perfect three-dimensional imagery are producing mounting evidence that the Shroud of Turin was created in the 1st century by a “nuclear event” that can’t be replicated by today’s technology.įilmmaker Robert Orlando dives into the middle of the debate over the shroud’s origins and authenticity with a new documentary, “The Shroud: Face to Face,” set for release in November. For reasons not fully explained, researchers analyzed only a small fiber sample taken from an edge of the shroud that was damaged in a fire in 1532 and mended by Poor Clare nuns using dyes. The carbon tests overseen by the British Museum and Oxford University have since been discredited. Thirty-five years later, 21st century science is pointing to a dramatically different conclusion. In 1988, carbon-dating tests concluded the Shroud of Turin was a 700-year-old fake. Filmmaker Robert Orlando, standing before a negative image of the Shroud of Turin, says he was prompted to investigate the purported burial cloth of Jesus in part because of a search to answer “big questions” about life and faith following the death of his father.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |