1857 ( Fools Gold) R. Bruce Elder, 1981

Four types of visual forms appear in this film: photographed scenes, written texts, mathematical symbols and numerals. The course of the film is charted by the transformations which these images undergo. The film has a narrative form, one that is developed purely in terms of the manipulation of the colour characteristics of the images. The texts included in the film are drawn from Ezra Pound s They serve, in the first place, to involve the spectator in the process of reading. Furthermore, Pound s text is ideal for exploring fairly completely the range of relations that can exist between image and text. The soundtrack of the film is constituted by both musical and nonmusical sounds. The nonmusical sounds that occur in the early portion of the film are natural sounds that might occur in nature along with the depicted events.