TONE POEMS

‘Yet it can happen, suddenly, unexpectedly, and most frequently in the half-light-of-glimpses, that we catch sight of another visible order which intersects with ours and has nothing to do with it. […] But it is as if, at the brief moments I’m talking about, suddenly and disconcertingly we see between two frames. We come upon a part of the visible which wasn’t destined for us. Perhaps it was destined for night-birds, reindeer, ferrets, eels, whales…’ – John Berger

A series of vignettes on animals in cinema and moving image. Commissioned and edited by Daisy Lafarge for MAP (March 2019). Full text available here.