Kladno

Kladno

color and b/w, sound, 20 min
I began to think about Stan Brakhage’s opening paragraph for Metaphors on Vision and his notion of the untutored eye and although I did sympathize with the sentiment, my experience with my own daughter ...
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I began to think about Stan Brakhage’s opening paragraph for Metaphors on Vision and his notion of the untutored eye and although I did sympathize with the sentiment, my experience with my own daughter Maddy seemed more concrete.  Sometime after September 11, 2001 (having been displaced and re-settled temporarily in a furnished apartment in Maplewood, New Jersey), Maddy began reading stories from picture books.  At four, she knew how to read a few words but mostly made up stories from looking at pictures.  This video is my portrait of her (and more), which began in a small industrial city, Kladno about twenty minutes from Prague, early one summer in the year 2000. 

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