“The great unacknowledged aspiration of the American avant-garde cinema has been the mimesis of the human mind in a cinematic structure. Beginning with the attempt to translate dreams and other revelations of the personal unconscious in trance films, through the imitation of the act of seeing in the lyric film and the collective unconscious in the mythopoetic film, this cinema has attempted to define Consciousness and the Imagination. Its latest attempts have approached the form of meditation (structural film) in order to more directly evoke states of consciousness and reflexes of imagination in the viewer.”