A powerful, poetic image: the mystery of black against white, of an outsider walking on the water, on stilts, Christ-like, stubborn, the tension of his forward-leaning body reflecting his determination. This, indeed, is the topic of this intenselymysterious, lyrical film, one of the most original and disregarded works of contemporary cinema. ---- Amos Vogel's “Film as asubversive art”