Vision from the Edge: Breyten Breytenbach Painting the Lines

(1998)

Genres: Documentary

Year: 1998

Runtime: 58 мин

Director: Mary Stephen

Cast: Breyten Breytenbach

Plot

In Vision from the Edge: Breyten Breytenbach Painting the Lines, Stephen's camera follows the exiled South African poet–artist Breyten Breytenbach as he executes a series of scroll paintings for a museum in the Netherlands. Poetry readings in different tongues are fused with the poet's reflection on philosophies of religion and mind.