PRODUCEDVirtual Image Productions
WRITTEN AND DIRECTEDDouglas Porter
NARRATIONDavid Renton
MUSICSteven Naylor
FUNDINGCanada Council for the Arts
Run Into Peace presents a text adapted from the writings of Meister Eckhart, a controversial mystic, priest and religious teacher from
14th century Germany, who did much to vernacularize the religious contemplative life of his day.
The text is simple and simultaneously self-contradictory; it recalls a world where language did not have to mean but could merely express, a world where the self knew better than to attempt defining the world. The images are also often contradictory, juxtaposed in flowing layers: highway landscapes, blood maps, vacant rooms, hands against the ceiling, glowing streetlights, invading icons, circular staircases.
Dedicated to Louis F. Capson [1944-96]
PART ONE OF THE BARREN MOON TRILOGY
12:57 minutes NTSC 1998
DISTRIBUTION www.vtape.org