In Palinode a disk-shaped matte continually shifting in and out of focus alternately blocks part of the image or contains it. Its respiratory rhythm matches operatic fragments of Wladimir Vogel’s Wagadu, as the camera studies a middle-aged male singer in Zurich, singing, eating, window shopping, meeting a young girl. The filmmaker told himself, ‘Don’t let yourself know what that film is about while you are making it.’
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Part of My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure
18 films
Winged Dialogue
Movie · 1967
Plan of Brussels
Movie · 1968
The Count of Days
Movie · 1969
Palinode
Movie · 1970
Diminished Frame
Movie · 1971
Still Light
Movie · 1971
The Painting
Movie · 1972
From the Notebook of...
Movie · 1972
Work Done
Movie · 1973
Ruskin
Movie · 1974
AMOR
Movie · 1980
Efpsychi
Movie · 1983
Wingseed
Movie · 1985
The Stoas
Movie · 1997
Sotiros
Movie · 2000
The Ground
Movie · 2001
The Hedge Theater
Movie · 2002
Early Monthly Segments
Movie · 2003
Robert Beavers Director
United States release April 1, 1970
Languages
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
United States · April 1, 1970
Theatrical · Club Nuovo Teatro
Austria
May 21, 1996 · Theatrical · Österreichisches Filmmuseum
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