Experimental Cinema

In April of 1966, the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York opened an exhibit by the true Jay Gatsby of American art, Andy Warhol. Silver Clouds, as it was called, consisted in its entirety of a roomful of silver, metalized plastic pillow-shaped balloons inflated with helium and oxygen. They floated . . . that's all they did . . . held aloft by the gallery's own air vents. In comparison to Warhol's yellow and pink Cow wallpaper exhibit then-ongoing in another part of the gallery, this was a dynamic work, but it was not without its charm for some.

"The intention of the film is a meditation on the nature of the divine in the mundane. It is what you would call a trance film. By simply watching the film it becomes a meditative tool, bringing the viewer into a construct of moving imagery without relationship to the actual.

I based the editing of the film, its length, and the choice of sound on the Kabalistic Tree of Life (Sefer Yetzirah). I have chosen ten composers to make ten different soundtracks for the film. Each soundtrack representing a specific sphere on the Tree of Life."

- RSH, from a private letter October 2005