Visions in Meditation #3: Plato's Cave (1990)
• January 1st, 1990 • 0h 16min
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Brakhage begins here with Carlsbad Caverns as a stand-in for Plato's Cave and then responds to the philosopher's notion of inaccessible ideal forms by seeking out imagery that evokes worlds we cannot see.
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