Praise

A prologue excerpt from the poem “Try to praise the mutilated world” sets the mood for this film of contained contrasts: black and white, negative and positive, light and dark. Recurring images of trees root the film, unifying its segments, and suggest further twinnings: (knowledge of) good and evil, humanity and nature, ephemeral and eternal – praise and mutilation. “A meditation on mutability and transience in the face of the perduring stone of the canyon.” – Barbara Godard