Geography of the body

Duration: 8

Year Published: 1943

Creator: American Federation of Arts

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: A daring analogical pilgrimage, evoking the terrors and splendors of the human body as an undiscovered mysterious continent. The commentary by British poet George Barker uses imagist-symbolist technique. It is an historically important film as the first such study of the human form in film. Coming at the beginning of American avant-garde cinema, it helped liberate filmmakers and viewers from conventional narrative forms and film photography.

Complete Record: A daring analogical pilgrimage, evoking the terrors and splendors of the human body as an undiscovered mysterious continent. The commentary by British poet George Barker uses imagist-symbolist technique. It is an historically important film as the first such study of the human form in film. Coming at the beginning of American avant-garde cinema, it helped liberate filmmakers and viewers from conventional narrative forms and film photography.


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