By the late 1960s I moved from Berkeley to San Francisco where I met other like- minded artists and experimental filmmakers. It was the era of intense outrage against the war in Viet Nam, psychedelics, and interest in Eastern mysticism.

Bärbel Neubauer has been creating animation and experimental films since 1980 and composing music and film music since 1991. An Austrian artist living in Germany, Neubauer works in a variety of film mediums including 70mm, 35mm and digital formats. Her practice spans handmade filmmaking techniques of painting and scratching directly on to celluloid through to digital 3D abstract animation.

In 1974 I moved to a rural property on Old Redwood Highway in Sonoma County near the town of Penngrove California... During the ensuing years... I could both record interesting moments and also weave a cinematic fabric equivalent to the gestural style and