Chant (1970)
14 minutes, 16mm, Color, Sound
“CHANT is a harmony. Robert Fulton describes the dominant theme of CHANT as the questioning of perceptual assumptions behind our experience.
In this film he creates a new rhythm of impressions. With his camera we enter the subject, are absorbed by it, then emerge to plunge again until we feel the texture of the image.
Forest, leaves, lakes, clouds spilling over mountains, man's art, flowers, fields and faces combine, separate, assume an individual beauty, then recombine.
CHANT is a reorientation of vision, a union of sights and sounds which, through the force of its beauty, suggests a different way of appreciating and understanding the fundamental integrity of experience.
CHANT discloses a remarkable film talent.
Robert Fulton demonstrates not only technical innovation and mastery but a whole new language of vision.”
- Robert Gardner, Filmmaker
Flashing images of flowers, mountains, and people. Buddhist chants, jazz keys for a soundtrack.