To Dave suggestion I'd surely add Standish Lawder's "Corridor", "an occasion for meditative speculation" (in his own words). Livio
Il giorno domenica 26 ottobre 2025, Dave Tetzlaff <[email protected]> ha scritto: > 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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