All Films
Volume Two
Film Series II
01
Love Must Love
Flower generation celebration of love. Filmed in San Francisco and Berkeley California in collaboration with my girlfriend at the time, the actress Donna Germain.
02
Eye Lands
Having moved from the city to the country, a continuation of ongoing investigations into filmmaking vision as a spiritual meditation. Documents an engagement with Avatar Meher Baba and his teachings.
03
Awakener
Transition from psychedelics to Meher Baba. Cinema as path to reality.
04
Ommo
Originally an 8mm film with hand-painting which was blown up to 16mm and hand-painted again before multiple printings with several optical manipulations. A mandala of ever changing configurations, both angelic and demonic, to be seen as an evanescent phenomenon.
A Note on Brakhage
In the late 1960s I met Stan Brakhage when he attended a screening by local filmmakers in San Francisco. Afterwards he expressed an enthusiasm for trading some of his own 8mm Songs for a print of my 8mm film Love Must Love. We started a correspondence and then further trades for my 8mm film Eye Lands. This DVD contains the three films pertaining to the enclosed facsimiles of the letters from Stan. About my 16mm film Ommo (1971) Brakhage wrote that he had never seen a more thoroughly worked-on hand-painted film.