Vision from the Edge: Breyten Breytenbach Painting the Lines

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Release date: August 08, 1998
Duration: 58 minutes
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In Vision from the Edge: Breyten Breytenbach Painting the Lines, Stephen's camera follows the exiled South African poet–artist Breyten Breytenbach as he executes a series of scroll paintings for a museum in the Netherlands. Poetry readings in different tongues are fused with the poet's reflection on philosophies of religion and mind.

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