'This is a hand-painted film whose emotionally referential shapes and colours are interwoven with words (in English) from the first Hymn in the Night by the late 18th-century mystic poet Friedrich Philipp von Hardenberg, whose pen name was Novalis. The pieces of text which I've used are as follows: 'the universally gladdening Light...As inmost soul...it is breathed by stars...by stone...by suckling plant...multiform beast...and by (you). I turn aside to holy Night...I seek to blend with ashes. Night opens in us...infinite eyes...blessed love'.' - S.B.