THE FILM THAT RISES TO THE SURFACE OF CLARIFIED BUTTER
EUTERPE
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8m 28s
"I wanted to do a film which dealt with drawings which somehow had a life of their own, which existed in the same space as real objects and yet still had their own two-dimensional space... imagery that didn't refer to anything in our visual vocabulary, and also was so non-objective that it didn't refer to anything." - Owen Land [née George Landow]
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