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1857 (Fool's Gold)

1857 (Fool's Gold)

This film is an act of celebration ... He produces -- with light and colour, sound, stillness and movement -- the ineluctable rhythm and energy of the natural world.

Release DateJanuary 26, 1981
StatusReleased
Original Title1857 (Fool's Gold)
Runtime 25min
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LanguageEnglish
Original LanguageEnglish
Production CountriesCanada
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Part of

The Book of All the Dead

Includes: Breath/Light/Birth, The Art of Worldly Wisdom, 1857 (Fool's Gold), Illuminated Texts, Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World, Part 1: The Dream of the Last Historian, Sweet Love Remembered, Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World, Part 2: The Sublime Calculation, Permutations and Combinations, Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 1: The Fugitive Gods, Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 2: The Lighted Clearing, Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 3: The Body and the World, Flesh Angels, Look! We Have Come Through!, Newton and Me, Barbara is a Vision of Loveliness, Azure Serene, She Is Away, Exultations: In Light of the Great Giving, Burying the Dead (Into the Light), Trace, Et Resurrectus Est

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