Friendship, Dialogues (silences) is a conversation between ideas (present and missing) in contemporary materialist film; here, the impersonal documentary conceives itself to be an artifact of its past anarchic potential; this is the trajectory of attention, recursion, and transformation. Wherever there is a limitation imposed, there is always an implied area beyond the limit; this is the nature of the pact between parallels: if ever they should meet, it would be where endlessness concludes; the path is labyrinthine and ruinous. On image, text, sound (otherwise and beyond): they are empty except for what they perceive to grasp in the other; they model consent for attention as well as inattention; they are a concrete reality of each other in absentia; ‘I hear what I read, and I see what I read!’ “There is no friendship where distance is not kept and respected.” (Simone Weil)

Friendship, Dialogues (silences) is a conversation between ideas (present and missing) in contemporary materialist film; here, the impersonal documentary conceives itself to be an artifact of its past anarchic potential; this is the trajectory of attention, recursion, and transformation. Wherever there is a limitation imposed, there is always an implied area beyond the limit; this is the nature of the pact between parallels: if ever they should meet, it would be where endlessness concludes; the path is labyrinthine and ruinous. On image, text, sound (otherwise and beyond): they are empty except for what they perceive to grasp in the other; they model consent for attention as well as inattention; they are a concrete reality of each other in absentia; ‘I hear what I read, and I see what I read!’ “There is no friendship where distance is not kept and respected.” (Simone Weil)

Chilean exiles in Paris discuss the problems facing them. They kidnap and attempt to re-educate a touring singer from their fatherland.

Pavese considered Dialogues with Leucò his best work. Eloquent and at the same time sententious and fragile, but implausible among humanized gods, demigods, heroes, and other pagan figures of Greek mythology, who question, through the imaginary of myths, the society of contemporary man. Out of a time and a certain space, and thus, and like all myths, always current.

Dialogues is Land's last film: A chaotic, self-reflexive experimental narrative about many, many things-- namely Land himself. A caustic, anything-goes attitude permeates the late work.