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Wilderness: A Country in the Mind 1984
«The scope of this project includes finding beauty everywhere in South America, particularly where humans have not touched anything, and it is absolutely astonishing to me what a tremendous accomplishment it is when humans do absolutely nothing.»
- Robert Fulton in "Robert Fulton's Pilot Notes: The Journals of a Solitary Aviator"Robert E. Fulton, the eternal searcher. Experimental filmmaker, free-jazz saxophonist, lifelong aviator.
Fulton roamed the earth. With his camera he roamed over what could be seen. Surfaces. In his…
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The Ascent 1977
{ from February 2013 }
Starts out as a work of aesthetic interest, becomes a piece about ethics and a character study, and finishes with an ending that packs quite a punch, emotionally and metaphorically. The surviving protagonist ends up a prisoner inside a camp with open unguarded doors, the people and the world whence he came - what he used to call comrades and home, both of which he betrayed - became hostile to him, its land is now…
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The Violence of a Civilization without Secrets 2018
«Memory is not a container for information, but a perpetually emerging process.»
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Earth Light 1970
I've never seen editing like it, I found it riveting and was amazed that the film could keep up that peculiar, almost consistent rhythm without it ever becoming tiresome or losing its appeal, nor did it get in the way of the film's contemplative mood, describing it with a word like "inserts" I think is completely missing the point. The editing and of course the compositions that look at people, objects and places alike, I think, has the purpose of…