Man Who Could Not See Far Enough, The

“The Man Who Could Not See Far Enough” uses literary, structural, autobiographical and performance metaphors to construct a series of tableaux that evoke the act of vision, the limits of perception and the rapture of space. Spectacular moving multiple images; a physical, almost choreographic sense of camera movement; and massive, resonant sound have inspired critics to call it “stunning” and “hallucinatory.” The film ranges in subject from a solar eclipse shot off the coast of Africa to a hand-held filmed ascent of the Golden Gate Bridge, and moves, in spirit, from the deeply personal to the mythic. “…miraculous… charged with expectancy… his fastidious gaze lends his subjects the colour of myth and they spread in the viewer’s mind like a fabulous dream.” – Mark Stivers, WXPN Express “…contrasts optical printing with screen imagery as beautifully and poetically as I’ve seen. The film is all about seeing, about magic and about the relationship between film and the eye.” – Owen Shapiro “…mixes words and images with strong grace, exploring ways in which vision can overpower us… stunning.” – Phillip Anderson, Minneapolis City Pages “…a powerful formal, analytic inquiry into the very nature of vision and cinema… painfully beautiful images of mysterious events and things, images that split, multiply, migrate and quiver with a hallucinatory vibrancy… a rich fabric interlacing the metaphysical with the ironical.” – Sally Banes, Village Voice Collections: Donnell Film Library; Oberhausen Film Collection; Simon Frazer University; Australian National Film Archive; South Carolina Arts Commission; California Institute of the Arts