South Slope What Love Tells Me (1980)

South Slope What Love Tells Me is a 16mm film made in 19781980 by the artist Abbott Meader It is a dramatic portrait of a piece of land in Maine as seen through the seasons filmed over a period of two years It is both a documentary and a film poem structured to respond to the 6th Movement of Gustav Mahlers 3rd Symphony as performed by the Portland Maine Symphony Orchestra which kindly donated the performance recording for use in this film Mahlers subtitle for the 6th Movement is What Love Tells Me