00:00Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does
00:11not respond to the name of everything, but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of
00:20perception.
00:20My myth was that I was a mountain man with a mountain family, a mountain man artist, which is what
00:29the world so much needed as what I guess is a counterbalance to Andy Warhol's Velvet Underground, some such.
00:38I stumbled, therefore, into or was given the gift of the scratching of titles directly onto the film surface, which
00:47had this effect that from the beginning the viewer was given the rhythm of the very projector that was going
00:56to show them the rest of the film.
00:57They were given the sense of the film surface itself, they were given handwriting, even when the titles were printed,
01:08they were given some sense of that that we call a signature or the very soul of the maker in
01:17writ.
01:18That that that cannot be counterfeited is there on, scratched, etched on the film surface.
01:27And that became something that I continued to do, and that was intrinsic to me, that the work be hands
01:33-on, that it show the human being that it had passed through in every conceivable way, that it remove itself
01:41as much as possible from all that trickery, that it was perhaps a window or a God-given envisionment or
01:50something of that sort.
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