Abbott Meader
South Slope
What love tells me
(16mm, 1978-80, 24:33 minutes)
South Slope: What love tells me is a dramatic portrait of a piece
of land in Maine as seen through the seasons filmed over a period of two years. It is both
a documentary and a film poem structured to respond to the 6th Movement of Gustav Mahler's
3rd Symphony as performed by the Portland Symphony Orchestra, which kindly donated the
performance recording for use in this film. Mahler's subtitle for the 6th Movement is
What Love Tells Me.
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