#mare's tail

mare’s tail (1969) directed by david larcher.

“mare’s tail is an epic flight into inner space. it is a 2 and 3/4 hour visual accumulation in colour, the filmmaker’s personal odyssey, which becomes the odyssey of each of us. it is a man’s life transposed into a visual realm, a realm of spirits and demons, which unravel as mystical totalities until reality fragments. every movement begins a journey. there are spots before your eyes, as when you look at the sun that flames and burns. we look at distant moving forms and flash through them. we drift through suns; a piece of earth phases over the moon. a face, your face, his face, a face that looks and splits into shapes that form new shapes that we rediscover as tiny monolithic monuments. a profile as a full face. the moon again, the flesh, the child, the room and the waves become part of a hieroglyphic language.