film · lauded by many as the best film of all time, alfred hitchcock's vertigo explores themes of perception, identity, guilt, and the manipulation of each.

music · audio from the green fog, a visual compendium and homage to vertigo. compiled by guy maddin and composed by jacob garchik and the kronos quartet.

photographs · rose mandel's errand of the eye exhibit took place at the san francisco legion of honor in 1954 and features layered images that play with our perception of abstraction and reality.

words I · emily dickinson's poem xxiv—inspiration for the title of mandel's collection—contemplates the meaning of mortality and the futility of searching for it.

words II · this passage from a translation of ovid's metamorphoses recounts the fatal moment orpheus looks back and loses his lover for a second time.

painting · our feature film is stylistically reminiscent of this aptly named salvador dalí painting vertigo or the tower of pleasure. surrealist artist dalí was a collaborator and inspiration of hitchcock's.