Brakhage would not normally be associated with any of this, but you
might consider his two minute silent film/ Angels' — /no specific
reference to your topic, but//almost empty of images, almost emptying of
the viewer too.
On 10/26/2025 9:09 AM, Heath Iverson wrote:
Thanks for the thoughts all!
I am indeed curating a program around this concept. The Sharits and
Whitney catalogs are already in the mix--especially Whitney's work as
it relates to sacred number and geometry. There's also Jordan Belson's
SAMHADI. I've got the formal, abstract/metaphoric angle covered; now I
am looking for films with literal ("pro-filmic" like they say in the
biz) instances of these practices and their material culture and
expression. Im interested not just in the formal representation of
subjective yogic/meditation states, but how these practices are
metabolized by a largely western avant-garde form. Given the strong
counter-cultural overlap of the mid century
underground/experimental/artist film world and the adjacent new
age/new spiritualist movements I expect there'd be some good examples
but, not much comes to mind... there are some hare krishnas
accidentally in Mekas' films...
On Sun, Oct 26, 2025 at 3:49 AM Gabriele Jutz
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I suggest /Transit(ive)/by//Canadian filmmaker Sarah Bliss (HD
video created from 16mm projection performance with digital sound,
recorded on digital video. 06:36. 2017).
In her artist statement, Sarah Bliss describes herself as “a
filmmaker, artist, educator, and Buddhist practitioner who
facilitates presence and attunement with the sensate, desiring body.”
/Transit(ive) /is//the result of the artist’s manual interaction
with the projector lens, while the soundtrack presents a
cell-phone recording of her father’s dying breath. The act of
expiration, literally “breathing out,” is associated with death.
/Transit(ive) /is a video document of death and loss, as well as a
techno-spiritual reunion with the artist’s father following his death.
Here you can find more about Transit(ive):
https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/3775230/3775231
(chapter “Lungs to Ears”)
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Well, there are a fair number of avant garde films that ARE
yogic/meditative/spiritual practices in form somehow without
PHOTOGRAPHING such practices as they exist in the real world [or
as we say in the biz (sic) "the pro filmic event"]
Paul Sharits: Mandala Films
Ernie Gehr: Serene Velocity*
John and James Whitney
(and others germane to The Center for Visual Music)
Scott Bartlet: Off/On
Anthony McCall
Several shorts in The FluxFilm anthology, though 'Zen for Film'
might not qualify depending on how you take it. 😉
In some cases the artists expressed some meditative/spiritual
intent. In others, it kinds works out that way regardless. The
cited above are just what comes to my mind at the moment. There
are more for sure...
If you were curating a program on your stated theme, you might mix
these formal examples with representational ones in interesting
ways an audience might appreciate.
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