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Concerning Flight: Five Illuminations in Miniature

Concerning Flight: Five Illuminations in Miniature

Charlotte Pryce | USA | 2004 | 8' |

| IFFR 2019

A kinematographic film comprised of five brief fictions in which the mystery of insect flight is explored. Interpretations of a mythological and fantastical nature are illuminated in motion and time. In order of screening: Thin Breath-quivering, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, Departure from the Garden, Conjuring Forth the Firefly and Keepers of the Labyrinth.

Also in this combined programme

Mothlight
Deep Focus Short
Stan Brakhage is attracted to creating films like an insect to light. Mothlight resurrects dead moths in the projector’s beam.
Discoveries on the Forest Floor 1-3
Deep Focus Short
Fragile leaves and fine threads of fungus string together, like an obscure genre of 17th century painting: Forest Floor Paintings.
The Parable of the Tulip Painter and the Fly
Deep Focus Short
An intoxicating flower drenched in luminous colours and sparkling light. Such luxurious and temporary beauty shows the transience of life.
Curious Light
Deep Focus Short
Lewis Caroll’s Through the Looking-Glass illuminated. Illustrations retreat into the fibre of the page, light dissolves into the film emuls
Looking Glass Insects
Deep Focus Short
This play of observation scans Lewis Caroll’s Through the Looking-Glass with magnifying glasses, used by both entomologists and filmmakers alike.
W.H. Hudson’s Remarkable Argentine Ornithology
Deep Focus Short
Live performance with vintage magic lanterns and handmade slides tells the tale of famed naturalist Hudson’s spellbinding recollection of birds.