From the Notebook of...

From the Notebook of was shot in Florence and takes as point of departure Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks and Paul Valéry's essay on da Vinci's process. The film marks a critical development in the artist's work in that he repeatedly employs a series of rapid pans and upward tilts along the city's buildings or facades, often integrating glimpses of his own face. As Beavers notes in his writing on the film, the camera movements are tied to the filmmakers' presence and suggest his investigating gaze (Henriette Huldisch, Whitney Museum of American Art)