Showing posts with label Robert Grosseteste. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Robert Grosseteste. Show all posts
3.2.11

The Text of Light

"All that is is light." - Dun Scotus Erigena

"To see a world in a grain of sand." - William Blake

These the primary impulses while working on this film. It is dedicated to Jim Davis who showed me the "first spark" of refracted film light.
-Brakhage's program notes for The Text of Light
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(From The Text of Light by Stan Brakhage; courtesy Anthology Film Archives)

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(From Canto LXXIV by Ezra Pound)

(From Canto LXXXVII by Ezra Pound)

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See Robert Grosseteste's On Light here...

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(From The Text of Light by Stan Brakhage; courtesy Anthology Film Archives)
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28.8.10

Concerning Light

A gentle interdisciplinary dialogue between East and West...

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(text from 'On Light' by Robert Grosseteste, a work very close to the heart)


(stills from 'Light' by Jordan Belson)