Visiting Filmmaker: Larry Gottheim

Tree of Knowledge (USA, 1981, 58 mins, 16mm), Gottheim’s final film in this suite, interpolates his own footage with other ‘found’ material. Of the film, Gottheim writes, “The fusion of ecstatic filming of a tree with sounds and images from a film about paranoia, a film about the seasons, releases energy of thought concerned with knowing, learning, believing, feeling…The film doesn’t just refer to freedom of thinking and feeling—it attempts to exemplify this freedom in its procedures of composition and the experience it offers.” Also screening: Mnemosyne Mother of Muses (USA, 1987, 16 mins, 16mm), a disjunctively edited collage of sight and sound structured as flashes of Gottheim’s own memory.

 

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