The film takes its title from chapter three of Lewis Caroll’s Through the Looking-Glass. This play of observation makes use of magnifying glasses, used by both
entomologists and filmmakers alike. The magnifying glasses can be seen as a visual metaphor for the cinematic process. Yet the insects of the story dissolve into darkness.
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Discoveries on the Forest Floor 1-3
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Concerning Flight: Five Illuminations in Miniature
The mystery of insect flight explored. Interpretations of a mythological and fantastical nature are illuminated in motion and time.
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The Parable of the Tulip Painter and the Fly
An intoxicating flower drenched in luminous colours and sparkling light. Such luxurious and temporary beauty shows the transience of life.
Curious Light
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W.H. Hudson’s Remarkable Argentine Ornithology
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Mothlight
Stan Brakhage is attracted to creating films like an insect to light. Mothlight resurrects dead moths in the projector’s beam.
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2013
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 4"
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
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