'...every threshold that has to be stepped over by the soul are always dubious. Therefore every threshold is also a stair. It can equaly go up- or downwards either towards darkness or light. Man can either try to make his way upwards which will lead him a step closer to his ancient state of being or being uncapable of doing so will fall down into material darkness. The way is either up or down or equaly in or out of things. Therefore the way up is the way in and the way out is the way down...'
'...Sparrow works very much in an imagist tradition rather than a narrative one. His film, 'sense', was composed of a number of carefully balanced images of a man and woman. The film's strangeness - the man buried up to his neck, for example - gave it a distinctive quality, although it was perhaps overlong. It also benefited from a genuinely imaginative use of sound...'
