THIS is a film only for those truly committed to the medium of film. The director herself tells us that for her it was about clearing space, not only visually and aurally, but mentally, and providing the opportunity for the viewer to clear their own space as well. A student of Fine Art at St Martin's School of Art in 1977, and of Environmental Media at the Royal College of Art in 1981, Danino has long been involved in the world of experimental film.

Temenos is a study of sight and sound in isolation and contrast. Stillness and clarity are its most salient features: overexposed shots of grass and trees, with only wind or keening as background, allow the viewer to become still, to experience the detail available in a blade of grass or the branch of a tree. The screen is sometimes white, sometimes black; sometimes there is silence. Relentless, but at the same time relaxing, it focuses the concentration in a manner suggestive of meditation, which is, after all, a way of creating inner space. In this sense the film certainly achieves what the director wants from it.

A rhythm, rather than a narrative, runs through the film, of apparitions of the Virgin. Descriptions of her face, voices reciting the Ave Maria, laughter and sobbing, but nothing concrete is said. Again, the viewer is allowed the freedom to see what he or she wants to. This film is more of a tool for individual use rather than a ready-wrapped and finished product to be glanced at from the outside and immediately forgotten.