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Vision from the Edge: Breyten Breytenbach Painting the Lines (1998)

Documentary58m

Overview

In Vision from the Edge: Breyten Breytenbach Painting the Lines, Stephen's camera follows the exiled South African poet–artist Breyten Breytenbach as he executes a series of scroll paintings for a museum in the Netherlands. Poetry readings in different tongues are fused with the poet's reflection on philosophies of religion and mind.

Mary StephenDirector

Vision from the Edge: Breyten Breytenbach Painting the Lines (1998)