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Program 3: Andrew Noren Series: Views from the Avant-Garde [46th NYFF Oct. 3-5, 2008] Director: Andrew Noren, Runtime: 101 Aberration of Starlight Andrew Noren, USA, 2008; 101m (digital b&w/color/silent) “Aberration of Starlight: The apparent displacement of a star resulting from Earth’s orbital motion around the Sun. It depends on the ratio of Earths’ orbital speed to the speed of light and Earths’ direction of motion and thus provides confirmation that the Earth orbits the Sun and not the reverse.”—Britannica Concise Encyclopedia “We have learned that even a natural organ such as the eye requires imagination in order to see. The sighted eye requires much more than the input of natural light... it also requires the inner, ocular light of intelligence and imaginative thought. If the eye were not Sun-like, how could we perceive the light? The eye is formed by the light, in order for the light to see itself.”—Goethe “It was the Sun that bored these two blue holes, our eyes.”—Richard Wilbur “Clearly, the exterior light hungers for the interior light.”—Jacob Boehme “Use your own light and return to the source of light. This is called ‘practicing eternity’.”—Lao-Tsu “So...Splendor Solis...in spades. What the light was like.”—Andrew Noren

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