Still from Yael Bartana’s “Inferno.”

Everyone has been gushing about the Herzog & de Meuron-designed Perez Art Museum Miami, or PAMM — and they should be. Although still not finished, with outdoor construction still underway, it would not be an exaggeration to say that this museum is already the most spectacular one in the country, if not the world.

Nonetheless, as handsome as it is, what goes in this museum in the end will be what marks its place in museum hierarchy. It’s off to a nice start. And one of the reasons is the truly mesmerizing commissioned video from Israeli artist Yael Bartana currently showing in one of the project rooms, Inferno. It’s a premiere here from the celebrated contemporary star.

The 18-minute film — and it is a film, not an abstract video — takes us on a journey of outsized proportions, in riveting detail and color and movement. It is hard to really describe in words, as it is a visual feast. But here’s an attempt.

Based on real-life headlines, she follows a group of Brazilian Evangelicals who are trying to rebuild the third Temple of Jerusalem — the first two were destroyed, along with the Jewish life that surrounded it, in two turbulent periods of history. Already we know that the end result may not be optimistic. Bartana focuses her camera on the faces and the eyes of people in religious ecstasy and then in terror, in her fictional account of what may happen when this temple possibly gets built in Sao Paulo. The ending brings us back to reality, the setting in front of the remnants of the wall of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. That’s not giving anything away, humanity here is in an endless cycle. What’s important is to make sure you watch the entire film from beginning to end.

Yael Bartana’s Inferno runs through April 20 at PAMM, 1103 Biscayne Blvd., Miami (on the Bay); www.pamm.org.