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And the Sun Flowers

And the Sun Flowers

Mary Helena Clark | USA | 2008 | 5' |

| IFFR 2009

‘Henry James had his figure in the carpet, Da Vinci found faces on the wall. Within this Baltimore wallpaper: a floral forest of hidden depth and concealment, the hues and fragrance of another era. Surface decoration holds permeable planes, inner passages. There emerges a hypnotic empyrean flower, a solar fossil a speaking anemone, of paper, of human muscle, of unknown origin, delivering an unreasonable message of rare tranquility.’ (Mark McElhatten)

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