In this drawing, Tom Phillips describes the rehearsals and actors for the Dante Inferno video. The two colored photographs collaged onto the drawing are stills of a female and two male nudes from the video. There is extensive application of rubberstamping with images that include large numerals, a clock face, Dante's head, and two Egyptian-like eyes, fleur de lise, skull and cross bones, and skull in profile. Some images are crossed out and others may have been used by Phillips in the Dante work, as he discusses rubberstamped images in the handwritten text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

In this drawing, Phillips describes the technical aspects of filming the flight of doves for a sequence of TV Dante. A drawing collaged onto the work is a line drawing of doves. Two colored photographic fragments in this work are stills taken from the Dante Inferno video. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

In this drawing, Phillips describes the techical difficulties that he is experiencing at CAL video in making Dante's Inferno video piece and mentions utilization of the Muybridge doves. Several words are painted on the page including Love, history, starlings and amor. The playing card, the six of hearts, torn into two fragments, is placed on the left side of the drawing, adjacent to the three versions of the word "Amor." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The left side of the drawing consists of handwritten instructions for "Attitudes & Positions for Almeida Shoot." The right side continues the dialogue of production schedule and work on the film. Phillips mentions that "Hansjorg Mayer picks up Dante proofs for publication." A drawing of an Egyptian amulet with colored pictograms is placed on the bottom center of the page. To the left of this image, Phillips writes the interpretation of the pictograms. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Phillips describes the difficulties and pleasures of working on-line and rehearsing off-line. He writes, "What an enormous pleasure I have in this collaboration with Peter [Greenaway]. Sets me right back on my toes again." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The notes by Phillips in this drawing describe work on the storyboard at CAL Video with Peter Greenaway. Phillips comments that relations with the video company are "wearing thin" with editing continuing late into the night. The right side of this page consists of a numerical diagram on the top and three drawings, two side and one frontal view of a man's head at the bottom. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Tom Phillips writes about his trip to Japan and regrets not sharing it with Pella Erskind-Tulloch. Images include reproductions of Hiroshima after explosion of the Atomic Bomb interspersed with hand drawn quotes from Dante in the Italian. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This page consists of preparatory charts for filming sequences. The collage elements are ripped, handwritten and drawn pieces of paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This page is based on the package of a pornographic film that that Tom Phillips' son Leo found titled "Dante's Inferno." Phillips painted elements to the flattened and ripped box changed "minors" to "Minos," and crossed out portions of male anatomy. Phillips writes in his text that he showed the video tapes to Iris Murdoch and Brian Eno who liked it a lot and found it inventive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The verso is a calligraphic text explaining how the print was made, the exhibition of it and instructions for performing the piece. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

A print by MacLow of this work is also held by Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The original drawing and print of this work are also held by Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is the first of several visual scores created by making words from the letters of a person's name, in this case the title name. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

A print by Mac Low of this work is also held by Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Seven concrete poems and one visual poem are depicted in this pamphlet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.