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Original BBC series that predated the book of the same name, which was amazing and also one of the most hideously typeset I have ever read.

"Jozef Van Wissem's favorite compositional device is the palindrome. The Dutch-born, Brooklyn-based lutenist plays pieces forward, then backward, creating music that is potentially without beginning or end. Although this strategy is rooted in 17th century compositional practice, it still serves his agenda of rescuing his archaic instrument from history's dustbin."

5 films by or about artworks by Robert Smithson.