From the Age of Lightheartedness

Klaus Wyborny's autobiographical odyssey takes him "across seven seas and seven continents," from Egypt and Greece to Africa, but also back to his youth in the sixties and seventies, a time "when everything was changing and people didn't know how to behave." His journey begins when a chance acquaintance offers to pay his way to Egypt if he will have sex with her on the pyramids. What follows is both a chronicle of such chance encounters, and a meditation on nature and beauty, and on lost ideals. Exquisite images of his travels, filtered through colors and tilted obliquely on the diagonal-like the pyramids-accompany his meditative voice-over. Depicting "places feelings desert" as well as haunting sea- and treescapes, Wyborny sifts through memories "so far away I can barely feel them." He terms his film, "The comedy of a biography-the biography of a comedy."Shown with 32/76: An W + B (Kurt Kren, Austria, 1976) (8 mins, Color, 16mm, From Canyon Cinema)-Kathy Geritz

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