Breath/Light/Birth
Directed by R. Bruce Elder
Video transformations of documentary footage of a woman giving birth, assisted by members of a religious commune. Isolation confronts the communal, the gruesome confronts the holy in this most mysterious of events.
Duration
0h 6m
Released
January 1, 1975
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Part ofThe The Book of All the Dead
Includes Breath/Light/Birth (1975), The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1979), 1857 (Fool's Gold) (1981), Illuminated Texts (1982), Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World, Part 1: The Dream of the Last Historian (1985), Sweet Love Remembered (1980), Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World, Part 2: The Sublime Calculation (1985), Permutations and Combinations (1976), Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 1: The Fugitive Gods (1988), Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 2: The Lighted Clearing (1988), Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 3: The Body and the World (1988), Flesh Angels (1990), Look! We Have Come Through! (1978), Newton and Me (1991), Barbara is a Vision of Loveliness (1976), Azure Serene (1992), She Is Away (1975), Exultations: In Light of the Great Giving (1993), Burying the Dead (Into the Light) (1993), Trace (1980), and Et Resurrectus Est (1994).
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