This meditation takes its visual imperatives from the occasion of Mesa Verde, which I came to see finally as a Time rather than any such solidity as Place.
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Visions in Meditation #2: Mesa VerdeDirected byStan Brakhage
16mm. The transfiguration of the landscape through specific processes of the cinematographic gaze and editing, by coloration, repetition, overlap: a material and atmospheric gaze that recreates,reimagining, the world viewed. From this level of materialistic grandeur, Peter Hutton and Klaus Wyborny, in different ways, did it-i'm not forgetting James Benning, but in this one, the vision is not like a "verklärtes lied".
a man was playing hide-and-seek on the cliff. as he was approaching the edge he saw 3 abysses - one above him, one under him and one inside him. unbearable sensations of vertigo-like shadows, swampy hills covered with haxan´s cloak melting in dead eyes´ink. he jumped. until this day we don´t know if he had wings.