Origin of The Night Amazon Cosmos

The nearly twohour film Origin of The Night Amazon Cosmos shot between 19731977 and finished in 1982 which references a myth of the indigenous Tupi people is a meditation on the South American rain forest that was filmed in its entirety along the Rhine near Düsseldorf Airport In it the dichotomies of day and night new and old worlds and nature and culture unfold glacially and immersively Only at the very end in the films closing credits does Baumgarten reveal where the compelling and poetic images were shot