Format VOD
Original format 16mm
Year 1968
Language(s) English
Artist(s) Peter Emmanuel Goldman
Author(s) Peter Emmanuel Goldman
Sous-titres French
Running time 95 min
Films
WHEEL OF ASHES (1968) 95'
Description
Who better than Clémenti could embody both angel and beast, die and resurrect with each frame, incarnate the neurasthenic walker and the Rimbaudian seer consumed by darkness and the dance of specters? A Christlike beggar, weary and sweating with spleen, roaming the Parisian limbo, Pierre drifts somewhere between Aragon's Le Paysan de Paris, Soupault's Les Dernières nuits de Paris, and Rilke's Les Carnets de Malte Laurids Brigge. Psychedelic surges toward transcendence, whether it takes the form of carnal or cosmic love—a dilemma in which the character becomes engulfed.
"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