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.
8'
USA
IFFR 2019
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.
IFFR 2019
- 4'
- USA
- 2013
- Director
- Charlotte Pryce
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2013
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 4'
- Medium
- 16mm
- Language
- silent
- Producer
- Charlotte Pryce
- Sales
- Charlotte Pryce
- Cinematography
- Charlotte Pryce
- Editor
- Charlotte Pryce
- Website
- http://www.charlottepryce.net
Also in this combined programme
Curious Light
Lewis Caroll’s Through the Looking-Glass illuminated. Illustrations retreat into the fibre of the page, light dissolves into the film emulsion.
4'
USA
IFFR 2019
Discoveries on the Forest Floor 1-3
Fragile leaves and fine threads of fungus string together, like an obscure genre of 17th century painting: Forest Floor Paintings.
4'
USA
IFFR 2019
Mothlight
Stan Brakhage is attracted to creating films like an insect to light. Mothlight resurrects dead moths in the projector’s beam.
4'
USA
IFFR 2019
- Director
- Charlotte Pryce
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2013
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 4'
- Medium
- 16mm
- Language
- silent
- Producer
- Charlotte Pryce
- Sales
- Charlotte Pryce
- Cinematography
- Charlotte Pryce
- Editor
- Charlotte Pryce
- Website
- http://www.charlottepryce.net
Programme IFFR 2019
Deep Focus Short
Pays tribute to Charlotte Pryce and Cauleen Smith, and presents two Artist Talks: by Andrew Norman Wilson and Diana Vidrascu.
Read more about this programmeChronicles of a Lying Spirit by Kelly Gabron
Speaking through her alter ego and a male voice, Cauleen Smith’s biography contrasts semi-true fiction with media representation.
8'
USA
IFFR 2019
Cinq minutes de cinéma pur
What is pure cinema? Henri Chomette’s answer to this question is a seminal investigation into the nature of film.
5'
France
IFFR 2019
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.
8'
USA
IFFR 2019