• The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo
  • Chronicle


Your eyes dance hello



In Conversation

  • Adrianne Finelli

    Adrianne Finelli is an artist and curator and the media technology specialist in the Department of Film and Media at UC Berkeley.

  • Jon Shibata

    Jon Shibata is BAMPFA’s film archivist.

  • Pamela Vadakan

    Pamela Vadakan is the director of California Revealed, a California State Library initiative that helps cultural heritage organizations digitize, preserve, and provide online access to materials documenting the state’s history, art, and cultures.

Life cannot be contained by language. Form falters. Rhythm shifts. Seasons change. How do we keep these films close without blinking? Keep it, keep it, beauty, beauty, beauty . . . from vanishing away? From the reverent to the irreverent, these films greet us with percussive joys, expansive wonders, and surprises. Listen to their syncopated heartbeats, the leaden echoes and the golden echoes. Hold them close. Dance! Allow the wind to carry you over. Do not despair! As the children in Growing, growing . . . lead us in song, discover how the leaves fall and wait for the buds of spring. Be the film within the film. Open and reach for the light! 

— Pamela Vadakan

Films in this Screening

Chronicle

Jordan Belson, United States, 1955

FILM DETAILS 
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  • Color
  • 16mm
  • 2 mins
source
  • BAMPFA
permission
  • Catherine Heinrich

Reading Poetry: Haiku

John Mattias, United States, 1972

FILM DETAILS 
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  • Color
  • 16mm
  • 7 mins
source
  • BAMPFA

Being Me

Jae Carmichael, United States, 1967

FILM DETAILS 
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  • B&W
  • 16mm
  • 10 mins
source
  • BAMPFA

Brandy Alexander

Lois Siegel, Marcos Vaïs, Canada, 1976

FILM DETAILS 
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  • Color
  • 16mm
  • 3 mins
source
  • BAMPFA
permission
  • Lois Siegel

Percussion Sounds

Pieter Van Deusen, United States, 1969

FILM DETAILS 
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  • Color
  • 16mm
  • 18 mins
source
  • BAMPFA

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FILM DETAILS 
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  • Color
  • 16mm
  • 2 mins
source
  • BAMPFA

The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo

Margaret Tait, United Kingdom, 1955

FILM DETAILS 
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  • Color
  • 16mm
  • 7 mins
source
  • BAMPFA
permission
  • LUX Distribution

The Tale of the Sand

Robert Pacelli, United States, 1985

FILM DETAILS 
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  • Color
  • 16mm
  • 7 mins
source
  • BAMPFA

Growing, growing . . . 

Paul Fillinger, United States, 1972

FILM DETAILS 
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  • Color
  • 16mm
  • 11 mins
source
  • BAMPFA
permission
  • Paul Fillinger