ALONE WITH THE MOON
PETER BURR • 13m
"You are on a train and you are in a well and you are lying beneath the nighttime sky and as your eyes open and close, you find yourself learning not what looking feels like (as Bridget Riley painted) but what feeling looks like. There is no landscape without a body and no vision without a self. Your Self is black-and-white, inside and outside an optical illusion in an infinite bardo plane." - Ben Russell
ALONE WITH THE MOON premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2012.
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