The Text of Light is a 1974 American experimental film directed by Stan Brakhage.
Time-lapse photography of books, paintings, reflections, and light falling on textures,[1] shot entirely through a glass ashtray.
The density and shape of the glass subtracts linear perspective from the visual field.
"[3] A presentation by Jonathan P. Watts for the Tate underlines the influence of Turner on this film: "In The Text of Light Turner’s influence is felt in the experimental use of colour, and is similarly visionary in the way it collapses naturalistic pictorial space.
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