A Love Supreme

Tarkovsky's icon-painter is Coltrane's saxophonist by other means — both find the divine through obsessive repetition of craft. The film treats faith as a working day.

Gobert's small-town purgatory works the same circular grace Coltrane works — meaning that arrives only when the form refuses to resolve. Both are devotional.

An anonymous English contemplative wrote that you reach God by repeating one syllable until thought drops away — the Coltrane method, named six centuries early.

Khan's qawwali is the same trance-by-iteration Coltrane plays — devotion proven by stamina, voice as instrument seeking exhaustion. Both treat the listener as a fellow traveller, not an audience.

Texhnolyze's bleak mechanical city reaches a metaphysical hush in every episode. Like Coltrane's late period, it earns silence through punishing density first.