Star Garden

The “STAR,” as it is singular, is the sun; and it is metaphored, at the beginning of this film, by the projector anyone uses to show it forth. Then the imaginary sun begins its course throughout whatever darkened room this film is seen within. At “high noon” (of the narrative) it can be imagined as if in back of the screen. Then it can be seen to shift its thought-light gradually back thru aftertones and imaginings of the “stars” of the film until it achieves a one-to-one relationship with moon again. This “sun” of the mind’s eye of every viewer does only occasionally correspond with the off-screen “pictured sun” of the film; and anyone who cares to play this game of multiple illumination will surely see the film in its most completely conscious light. Otherwise it simply depicts (as Brancusi put it): “One of those days I would not trade for anything under heaven.” (SB)