Summer Storm Passage (1965)

This film which dates from 1964 has always satisfied me I believe the footage was completed before the assassination of Kennedy an event that changed many things I had made only silent films until I made THE ELMS which followed upon this one SSP is a film whose form I had in mind from the outset It was to be a visual piece structured in a musical manner It would have three movements in differing visual tempi Rhythms counterpoint theme and variation and so on were to be in mind as I filmed and edited The thematic material would develop slowly and there would be recapitulations and so on The three sections are entitled Barn Summer Storm and Bird A sense of place shelter and fertility A welcoming of the necessary summer storm of birthing A childs wonder and excitement at experiencing the vast unfolding world Abbott Meader