Anabolite See is a personal work about the notion of 'anabolic seeing.' This notion is the process of trying to get complex or significant ideas about 'what this whole thing is about?' through collage editing and set-ups of events and things on film which seem abstract until combined into a more valuable and meaningful whole. Spontaneous, abstract and poetic voice-over narratives serve to further describe the notions or ideas generated by all of the elements.
Anabolite See is the last film that I made while still trying to create purely personal and expressive art through the film medium. It's a work that was created without any thought of an audience or viewer in the formal sense of 'cinema aesthetics'; it is more attuned to 'poetry', 'conceptual art', and 'photography' in its structures and is a genuine expression of what seemed important to me at the time when its various elements were put together. It has nothing to do with Hollywood or narrative cinema or other commercial forms; it is my most favorite filmic work in that it seems to deal with relationships about reality and "awareness of awareness" which makes what is being hinted at more important than how or through which medium/form the ideas might be coming through.
The film's view ability requires experiencing it more as a poem rather than a movie - the spoken narratives are really poems. I guess the main influences are the classic and original independent filmmakers of the '60s, '70s, and early '80s who were still using film as a truly personal creative medium to produce unique individual visions about life, the cosmos, facts and things that they/we as artists see and document in our own ways and hopefully for others to connect with - like Will Hindel, Scott Bartlett, Paul Sharits, Hollis Frampton, Gunvor Nelson, Chick Strand, Pat O'Neal, Richard Myers, Beth Block and others. The film was made in the early '80s and remains as my favorite and most successful filmwork about the aesthetic of artistic exploration of the beingness of the then 20th Century, and which now continues in the 21st Century but with additional forms and directions. It's about the fact that Art may be the only reason for Life!
My fundamental motivation for making Art is the belief that Art is the most direct way to explore our total existential reality. The exploration of this 'thing' is the most important part of human life - the search for truth, the search for some kind of answers to the question 'what is this whole thing about?' Any bit of comedy always helps.

Kon Petrochuk