"In former times, night did not exist. It was daylight all the time. Night slept beneath the waters. Animals did not exist either, for things themselves had the power of speech...." (The Tupi of the Amazon) German artist Lothar Baumgarten is well known in Europe for his haunting studies of Venezuelan tribal communities with whom he lived for some time; these moving and pointed elegies describe cultures soon to be eradicated along with the rain forests in which they were born. At last year's Venice Biennale his site-specific installation was derived from the ancient connection of place (Venice/Venezuela), and recently a show at New York's Marian Goodman Gallery displayed his giant, black-and-white photographs and commentary on the life of the rain forest. The Origins of Night, completed by Baumgarten in 1978, also draws on the artist's intense associations with the jungle. Derived from an Amazonian tribal myth about the birth of night and of the animal kingdom, it is both a landscape film and an anthropological film, with references to European works including Levi Strauss and Finnegan's Wake, among others, which emerge from a non-narrative, entirely visual structure.