Geography of the Body
- Willard Maas |
- 1943 |
- 7 minutes |
- B&W |
- OPT
Rental Format(s): 16mm film
Commentary by the British poet, George Barker. An analogical pilgrimage evokes the terrors and splendors of the human body as the undiscovered, mysterious continent. Extreme magnification increases the ambiguity of the visuals, tongue-in-cheek commentary counteracts or reinforces their sexual implications. The method is that used by the imagist-symbolist poet.