The Golden Gate weaves together fragments of nature films about insects and reptiles, images from space programs and astronomy with the filmmaker's own footage of human activity from his immediate environment. The experience of years of research into the chemical manipulation of silver nitrate during and after developing is applied to the film's images. As a result, they have a painterly quality evoking an atmosphere somewhere between dream and reality...."The golden gate" is a term which dates back to pre-Christian mythology describing the spiritualization and renewal of divine fire by passing through the winter solstice.... Just as the film is not connected by a traditional pattern of structure and narration, the music (composed by Thomas Koner) also transcends the usual pattern of rhythm and melody. In this way an audiovisual half-world is created which the viewer perceives more via his stomach than his brain.-Jògen Reble