Movie Details
Original Language:English
The Riddle of Lumen (1972)
Audience Score
14 minNov 10th, 1972
The Riddle of Lumen presents an evenly paced sequence of images which seem to follow an elusive logic As in Zorns Lemma the viewer is called upon to recognize or invent a principle of association linking each shot with its predecessor However here the connection is nonverbal A similarity or an antithesis of color shape saturation movement composition or depth links one shot to another A telling negative moment occurs in the film when we see a child studying a didactic reader in which simply represented objects are coupled with their monosyllabic names in alphabetical order P Adams Sitney
DirectorStan Brakhage
