Peter Goldman
Wheel of Ashes
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Original format 16mm
Year 1965-1968
Language(s) English
Artist(s) Peter Emmanuel Goldman
Author(s) Emeric de Lastens
Subtitles French
Booklet 36 pages (French, English)
Running time 95 min
Films
WHEEL OF ASHES (1968) 95'
8MM REELS (1965) 24'
Description
Who better than Clémenti could play both angel and beast, die and resurrect with each frame, embody the neurasthenic wanderer and the Rimbaldian seer prey to darkness and the spectral dance? A Christlike beggar, weary and sweating spleen, roaming the Parisian limbo, Pierre drifts somewhere between Aragon's Paris Peasant, Soupault's Last Nights of Paris, and Rilke's The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. Psychedelic surges toward transcendence—whether taking the form of carnal or cosmic love—a dilemma in which the character becomes increasingly mired.
"Goldman's film stands as one of the most uncompromising works of American experimental cinema, a meditation both brutal and magnificent on contemporary urban life."
— Jonas Mekas