Considered destroyed, this early ‘haiku-imagistic film’ was rediscovered in the summer of 1985. The film concerns Sharits’ first marriage. It is full of apprehension, in a montage style which counterposes ‘opposites’: sexuality and religion; seasonal opposites; hopefulness undercut by fears of eventual separation, the image of a statue of two women, arm in arm, reading a book.
Also in this combined programme
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Attention: Light!
A replica of a lost film that Paul Sharits made to the rhythms of Chopin’s music in Robakowski’s apartment in 1981. -
Scenes From Under Childhood Section #1
A visualisation of the inner world of foetal beginnings, the infant, the baby, the child – a shattering of the ‘myths of childhood’ through revelation -
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Rapture
A visual statement about the abandonment of self to heightened transportive states. It is also an exploration of religious, visionary ecstasy and psyc
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 1962
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2008
- Length
- 12'
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
