R. Bruce Elder (Canada, 1982, 180 minutes)

“Breathtaking in its techniques, rhapsodic in its passion, and encyclopedic in its scope, the film traces the long fall from paradise into modern barbarism.”

- Art Gallery of Ontario

A very demanding work of great complexity and rigor, Illuminated Texts presents itself as a great debate between nature and technology, unity and dissolution, the divine and the demonic, and irrecoverable past and the terrible velocity of time.

Going on it’s third year, Peripheries Experimental Film & Video Festival is a yearly, non-competitive experimental showcase, which serves to highlight contemporary works of experimental film, as well as screening significant historical works for the purpose of expanding awareness and appreciation for the experimental mode of filmmaking and its contemporary practitioners, both international and domestic.