I sense a luminous transparency...

I came across a fantastic description of the final moments of Peter Rose's film SECONDARY CURRENTS, a film about language, in Scott MacDonald's book Screen writings: scripts and texts by independent filmmakers.

"The rolling credits may conclude the viewer's experience of film-as-perspectival-illusion, but-especially at 16mm screenings-this ending is often followed by the end leaders (with various kinds of language printed or written on them) that signal the conclusion of the film's material journey through the projector... Rose provides a reward for those viewers energetic enough to wonder if the text they see on the leader merely encodes the standard information common on film leader or adds to a film that has continually surprised our expectations of other forms of text. The reward is fittingly, one final text: 'I sense a lumionous transparency, a limitless linear aperture of indecipherable articulate intelligence-I sense arising, a silent perpendicular emissary unfolding from the invisible. It is becoming a vast, provotic, spectral. All is clear now !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'"

A few more for good measure: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To see the film go here.