1857 (Fool's Gold)

This film is an act of celebration ... He produces -- with light and colour, sound, stillness and movement -- the ineluctable rhythm and energy of the natural world.

Release Date

January 26, 1981

Status

Released

Original Title

1857 (Fool's Gold)

Runtime

25min

Budget

Revenue

Language

English

Production Companies

Part of

The Book of All the Dead

Includes: Breath/Light/Birth, The Art of Worldly Wisdom, 1857 (Fool's Gold), Illuminated Texts, Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World, Part 1: The Dream of the Last Historian, Sweet Love Remembered, Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World, Part 2: The Sublime Calculation, Permutations and Combinations, Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 1: The Fugitive Gods, Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 2: The Lighted Clearing, Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 3: The Body and the World, Flesh Angels, Look! We Have Come Through!, Newton and Me, Barbara is a Vision of Loveliness, Azure Serene, She Is Away, Exultations: In Light of the Great Giving, Burying the Dead (Into the Light), Trace, Et Resurrectus Est