Peter Herwitz
2021The Poet's Veil
Peter Herwitz
The veils-of distance, color, and detached symbols-are both painterly in form and related to the acts of reading and writing seen throughout the film. The obscuring of the word represents my struggle to create an unnamable world of poetic mystery and nuance.
The Poet's Veil
Gesturings
Peter Herwitz
"This film represents the apotheosis of my handpainted film style and the belief that in the materiality of film everything is a kind of gesture: color, rhythm, texture, splice marks, funky tape splices, fingerprints, and dirt. I worked on and off on the film for seven years. Reprinting each frame twice, my hope was the slowing down would echo Baudelaire's 'Lux, Calme, et Volupte' (luxury, call and pleasure). The film is dedicated to Bill Brand." - Peter Herwitz
Gesturings