White Heart (1975)

Legendary among filmmakers who have witnessed it White Heart is a symphonic exploration of cinematic meaning that unfolds through a multilayered contrapuntal audiovisual montage of numerous and disparate ingredients images of city streets verdant forests and ocean waves bits of film leader and editors marks oblique footage of Barnetts colleagues Larry Gottheim and Saul Levine an interview with two young missionaries the sounds of classical music typewriters video tone and most centrally a brief passage from Ludwig Wittgensteins Philosophical Investigations These elements and more emerge and reemerge like musical motifs continuously and meticulously altered through processes like bleaching staining and multiple print generation dramatically extracting the formal particularities of the Kodachrome reversal print