This film was shot at Eltham, Victoria, and it is a study of two classic Australian bush views: the river seen through gum trees and the hills covered uniformly in Eucalypts. It is a film of stillness: it evokes the sense that one has in the bush of responding to a slower more natural life rhythm.
On a formal level the film is an investigation of the possibilities of manually playing the mechanical functions of the Bolex camera: the fade mechanism, the focus and the lens aperture in order to change the light, color and definition of the landscape. Through a broken, irregular series of glimpses of a heavily timbered landscape, seen through varying degrees of light intensity as the camera shutter is opened and closed, the film presents a lyrical assembly of light and dark, of brilliant sunshine and heavy shadows. The natural rhythms of time, in the divisions between day and night, are broken, condensed and rearranged by the camera. (Cinema Parenthese)
