E. Elias Merhige: Din of Celestial Birds - 1/2

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Part 1 of 2: A film about the birth of man from director Elias Merhige, video artist and composer David Wexler, composer Ben Gillespie, visual artist Ariana Tosatto, visual philosopher Leigh J. McCloskey, and psychophysicist Miguel P. Eckstein. Merhige recalls the celebrated works of such film pioneers as the Lumiere Brothers and Fritz Lang through this visually sumptuous short film. In it, he uses the camera as an all-seeing eye witnessing the divine mystery of creation—the soul's movement ...