P. Adams Sitney

Various unrelated vignettes, often juxtaposing sound and image.

In 1969, Leonardi traveled to the United States to write a book about the New American Cinema. Using a Super-8 camera, he made a film-diary of this experience between New York and San Francisco. During his journey, the director’s love for experimental cinema was shaken by overwhelming political events, which forged a profound social conscience.

Children of the water world drift the ocean in an empty crystal ball, swim in beaded beds of mist, and spawn in pools of murder to see a lantern sunk in the pit of an empty space.