A TALE OF A NEW ERA
VISUAL MODELS
The inquiry made visible
The visual models are research instruments: provisional structures through which relationships between history, drama and language can be examined as a whole.
The Gallery · 5 models
Instruments of the inquiry
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One Movement, Three Horizons
One dramatic movement observed from three historical points of observation.
One movement. Three historical points of observation.
One dramatic movement is observed at three historical scales and from three points in time. The prophets narrate it through Israel’s history; Romans gives it universal conceptual form at the turn of the Common Era; and the twenty-first century makes the same structure observable at the scale of humanity as a whole.
The model aligns these three horizons with the seven dramatic phases and functions extending from Setting to Denouement. A forthcoming essay will examine the hypothesis and its historical transitions in detail.
The Inquiry at a Glance
Seven films arranged by year, central proposition and function within the inquiry.
The seven Books of the inquiry set out year by year: what each film proposes and what role it plays in the cumulative investigation—from historical hypothesis to a new horizon.
Seven Books, One Arc
The seven Books placed along a single dramatic arc, in three phases.
The inquiry as one dramatic arc from 2027 to 2033. Each Book extends the recognition achieved by the one before, moving from establishing the inquiry through testing it to the consequences of recognition.
Apokalypsis · Anagnorisis
Unveiling and recognition as two aspects of one possible event.
Paul’s apokalypsis and Aristotle’s anagnorisis read together: history is unveiled, and its parts become recognisable as a dramatic whole.
The Human Prompts; the Model Maps
How the films’ narrated passages emerge through dialogue with a language model.
The filmmaker introduces experience, questions and sources; the model maps relationships and proposes formulations; the filmmaker evaluates and rewrites. Prompts and sources are published so that the reasoning remains open to examination.
Working Models
These models remain open to examination throughout the seven-year inquiry. They will be refined as the films develop and as their relationships are tested against historical sources, Scripture, restoration traditions and the unfolding present.