another short film idea.....and further thoughts

Imagine (literally) looking through someones eyes....the eyes are shut and there is veiled flickering and flare behind the closed eyes....gradually a musical thread of sound builds like a glowing filter across the image until it reaches a kind of bursting point. The eyes flash open and brilliant white shines for a second in silence then a tumult of images working with an intense rush of distorted sounds floods the senses. Very William Blake....extending on the little bit of video exploration The NOISE (my quartet) explored with Georges Lentz and Andrew Wholley. This work now titled String Quartet(s) was never composed with a visual element in mind however we were playing with some film ideas for one of our performances at Cockatoo Island that had potential. Like so many things that are strongly musical that are then appended with film, or film that is laced with music, you can actually get something that is weaker after adding the extra element.....if it wasn't designed with a musical or visual layer than maybe best to leave it alone???? Becomes a bit neither here nor there..... This is something I'm really keen to avoid!

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I found this really interesting article on Brakhage by Fred Camper "The montage of Dog Star Man (1961–64), which juxtaposes its characters, principally Brakhage himself, with imagery of blood vessels and the sun, the forest and the stars, family and architecture, and explicitly erotic imagery, evokes numerous associations, from the banal to the sublime. Layers of faces and rocks and paint on film combine in multiple superimpositions, ultimately building to a meditation on one man’s place in the cosmos that can also be read, apart from its hint of a plot, as a light-poem." 
From https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/272-by-brakhage-the-act-of-seeing ​

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