Reflection. A film about time and relatedness - ACE061.6

Caption: "The Human World," Time-lapse film of clouds and landscape at dawn. "Mankind, the sense-making animal, has to consciously create his relationships within the natural world. This ability for abstract thought expressed itself in the concept of time." Landscape at different seasons. Time-lapse film of clouds and sunset. Magnified views of constellations in night sky, man’s "most permanent image". Photographs of Native American and Native Amazonians with shadow sticks, which linked them "directly to the sun as the centre of life in our solar system". Stick with shadow marking out a circular pattern. Two sticks, "obviously unstable", can be used, as a compass, to draw interlocking circles. Three sticks, the tripod, make a stable tetrahedron. Four sticks "… align the cardinal directions". Bundle of twelve sticks. Spiral diagrams. The symbolism of the Mandan Indian lodge, demonstrated on a model built with sticks. Painting by Karl Bodmer showing The Interior of the Hut of a Mandan Chief (1833-1834); photographs of Native Americans. Sunset seen through frame of lodge.