RÊVE D'OR
EUTERPE
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3m 45s
In 1894, a young Frenchman named Pierre Louys, a Greek scholar, published a volume of prose poems, titled SONGS OF BILITIS, Bilitis being an imaginary Greek poet of his own concoction.
"One woman envelops her self in White wool. Another covers her self with flowers, with green leaves, and with grapes. As for me, I live only when I am naked. My lover takes me as I am, without robe or jewels, or sandals. Here is Bilitis, quite alone.”
We are presented on the screen with a sequence of Arcadian images, the intent of which is to raise consciousness one full octave and to give the viewer a strong hint that a stream of brightness runs through the universe.
One morning, when spring was breaking in the trees of his garden, Lawrence Jordan had a euphoric sensation, looking into the sky: a golden dream (or Rêve d’Or in French, the name of one of his roses, climbing in the persimmon tree).
Jordan set about finding images which he believed portrayed this feeling. RÉVE D'OR [GOLDEN DREAM] is the result.
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