The Dead dir Stan Brakhage, 1960
I was again faced with death as a concept; not watching death as physical decay, or dealing with the pain of the death of a loved one, but with the concept of death as something that man casts into the future by asking, “What is death like?” And the limitation of finding the images for a concept of death only in life itself is a terrible torture, i.e., Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus 6.4311: “Death is not an event of life. Death is not lived through. If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present. Our life is endless in the way that our visual field is without limit.“ –Stan Brakhage