Vision from the Edge: Breyten Breytenbach Painting the Lines

Vision from the Edge: Breyten Breytenbach Painting the Lines

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Status

Released

Release Date

Aug 8, 1998

Runtime

0h 58m

Original Title

Vision from the Edge: Breyten Breytenbach Painting the Lines

Director

Mary Stephen

Description

In Vision from the Edge: Breyten Breytenbach Painting the Lines, Stephen's camera follows the exiled South African poet–artist Breyten Breytenbach as he executes a series of scroll paintings for a museum in the Netherlands. Poetry readings in different tongues are fused with the poet's reflection on philosophies of religion and mind.