A film that uses literary,structural, autobiographical and performance metaphors to construct a series of tableaux that evoke the act of vision, or the limits of perception and the rapture of space. Spectacular moving multiple images; a physical,nearly choreographic sense of camera movement; and massive, resonant sound gain inspired critics to call it "stunning" and "hallucinatory." The film ranges in subject from a solar eclipse shot off the coast of Africa to a hand-held filmed ascent of the Golden Gate Bridge, or moves,in spirit, from the deeply personal to the mythic.
Source: fandor.com