Illuminated Texts
Directed by R. Bruce Elder
"Breathtaking in its techniques, rhapsodic in its passion, and encyclopedic in its scope, the film traces the long fall from paradise into modern barbarism." - Art Gallery of Ontario
Duration
2h 54m
Released
January 27, 1982
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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