With a moving melody and an assortment of footage, French filmmaker Jean Thevenin artfully pieces together the events of an important night in Occupy history in his short film, “Visible Shape.”

On this particular evening in December, composer Philip Glass and Lou Reed joined a large crowd of occupiers in Lincoln Center in New York, outside the final performance of Glass’s opera “Satyagraha," which is about the life of Gandhi and his non-violent protests.

Glass joined the crowds for a mic check, reciting the closing lines of his opera, which is also where the film gets its name: "When righteousness withers away, and evil rules the land, we come into being, age after age, and take visible shape, and move, a man among men, for the protection of good, thrusting back evil, and setting virtue on her seat again."

Lou Reed spoke via the people’s mic as well, saying, “The police are our army. I want to be friends with them.”

Those involved in the movement couldn’t help pointing out the irony in the fact that the Koch Brothers and Mayor Bloomberg sponsor Lincoln Center; the New York City Ballet dances in a theater bearing David Koch's name. While Bloomberg celebrated Gandhi and his efforts, he also worked to shut down the Occupy Movement, and the irony was apparently lost on him.

“Protest,” a song from Satyagraha played by the New York City Opera Orchestra, plays throughout the short film, melding seamlessly with the black and white footage of the crowds, signs and the protesters’ chants. The result is a powerful video that has truly captures the solidarity and spirit of the Occupy Movement.

Photo: Philip Glass