Bardo Follies

Diploteratology or Bardo Follies. US 1967. D: Owen Land (formerly George Landow). 16mm, silent, colour, duration according to sources 45 min or 20+7 min. This LUX print 20 min. Viewed at Cinema Orion, Helsinki, 28 March 2008. Structural film: a shot of a woman waving at tourists at an amusement park is melted, and the melting process viewed until it looks like a journey into the cellular structure of life, or a cosmic journey into space. About the organic nature of film, and life, and death.