Waterwork (1973) dir. James Cagle

A single shot (slow zoom) gradually magnifying rapidlymoving blue, white water pattern (rushing river). A sensitive and subtle film for visual contemplation, which inevitably reminds one both of how seldom we see ordinary simple reality; but moreover, how wonderfully transformative is the medium of cinema, to render this reality in a new, optically dazzling, pattern. A hypnotic experience, for the cinema, willing, to drown within and therein the danger: an art must keep the recipient alive and awake. John Schofill