The Breath of Sheep

In Düsseldorfbased filmmaker Lutz Mommartzs Das Atem des Schafes The Breath of the Sheep 1970 we see Scotland as an outsider Recorded on a trip to the Highlands ahead of his participation in Strategy Get Arts a landmark exhibition at Edinburgh College of Art Mommartzs 8mm film testifies to the Scottish imaginary that preceded selfrepresentation Mistwrapped mountains and a maggotinfested sheep carcass are soundtracked by stretchedout psychedelia encoding this as a place of wildness Marcus Jack 8mm bw