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Breath/Light/Birth

Name: Breath/Light/Birth
Released: 1975-01-01
Duration: 6 min

1975 · 6m

Video transformations of documentary footage of a woman giving birth, assisted by members of a religious commune. Isolation confronts the communal, the gruesome confronts the holy in this most mysterious of events.

Part of the The Book of All the Dead

21 films, in story order

She Is Away
1975
Permutations and Combinations
1976
Barbara is a Vision of Loveliness
1976
Look! We Have Come Through!
1978
7.2
The Art of Worldly Wisdom
1979
6.7
Sweet Love Remembered
1980
Trace
1980
7.7
1857 (Fool's Gold)
1981
7.3
Illuminated Texts
1982
Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World, Part 1: The Dream of the Last Historian
1985
Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World, Part 2: The Sublime Calculation
1985
Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 1: The Fugitive Gods
1988
Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 2: The Lighted Clearing
1988
9.0
Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 3: The Body and the World
1988
7.0
Flesh Angels
1990
Newton and Me
1991
Azure Serene
1992
Exultations: In Light of the Great Giving
1993
8.0
Burying the Dead (Into the Light)
1993
7.0
Et Resurrectus Est
1994