The Suppliant

My filming for The Suppliant was done in February 2003 while a guest in the Brooklyn Heights apartment of Jacques Dehornois When I recollect the impulse for this filming I remember my desire to show a spiritual quality united with the sensual in my view of this small Greek statue I chose to reveal the figure solely through its blue early morning highlights and in the orange sunlight of late afternoon After filming the statue I walked down to the East River and continued to film near the Manhattan Bridge and the electrical works then I returned to the apartment and filmed a few other details I set this film material aside while continuing to film and edit Pitcher of Colored Light later I took it up twice to edit but could not find my way Most of the editing was finally done in 2009 then I waited to see whether it was finished and found that it was not In May 2010 I made several editing changes and created the soundtrack with thoughts of this friends recent death RB