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A shadowy fi gure huddles in front of a dark ground, surrounded by high, billowing grass.The sky is crimson and a light is glaring from the horizon.Now the fi gure stirs-a bright hooded sweatshirt can be made out.The camera is close; it kneels with the fi gure in the fi eld and fi lms as it stalks onward and ducks down again-now it can no longer be seen.Alone, the camera fi lms wind and grass and the constant white light.The image becomes grainier and wavers.This place seems oddly dematerialized, disembodied, as in a dream or memory.A small black silhouette rises up, becomes visible against the light on the horizon, and again dissolves into the glimmering dots of the image noise.The camera, working hard with hardly any light, seems to reach its limit.A pan to the left makes the image into a painterly blur of crimson, gray, and brown tones.

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