Illuminated Texts

"Breathtaking in its techniques, rhapsodic in its passion, and encyclopedic in its scope, the film traces the long fall from paradise into modern barbarism." - Art Gallery of Ontario

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Release Date	January 27, 1982
Status	Released
Original Title	Illuminated Texts
Runtime	2h 54min
Budget	—
Revenue	—
Language	English
Original Language	English
Production Countries	Canada
Production Companies	Lightworks

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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