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Visions in Meditation #3: Plato's Cave

1990· 0h 16m

Documentary

Directed by Stan Brakhage

5.8/ 10

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Part of

Visions in Meditation

Overview

Brakhage begins here with Carlsbad Caverns as a stand-in for Plato's Cave and then responds to the philosopher's notion of inaccessible ideal forms by seeking out imagery that evokes worlds we cannot see.

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