Alchemy of the Word (Altered Video Version)
1987, English. Directed by Peter von Ziegesar.
Twelve years after making the experimental black-and-white 16mm film, Alchemy of the Word, I ran the film through a prototype digital video synthesizer called a Chroma-Chron, and added a soundtrack by the East Village band, Liquid, Liquid and the German electronic music composer, Holgar Czukay. The result is a pulsing, meditational, almost tribal film containing lurid colors and dense, finger paint-like qualities. In a sense, the video is closer to what I’d intended when I made the original black-and-white film and follows the same Rimbaud-esque disordering of the senses.
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Alchemy of the Word (Altered Video Version) isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 January 1987. (Checked 14 November 2026.)
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Alchemy of the Word (Altered Video Version) (1987) was directed by Peter von Ziegesar.