midst

In midst Barbara Sternberg has made a lyrical film about attachment integration belonging Many of the familiar elements of Sternbergs work are here speed pulsing rhythms explosions of colour light and shape images of nature and the built environment But the conflicted situations and turmoil of earlier major films like Through and Through and Beating are gone Instead midst focuses dramatically on an understanding of the world through art specifically painting especially abstraction here translated into filmic terms Abstraction becomes the vehicle for taking on complexity putting it all together in heightened moments of intense vision characteristic of seeing into or being at one with nature