Stan Brakhage’s obsession with creating films is like the attraction of an insect to the light: compulsive, inexplicable and self-destructive. In Mothlight, he bypasses the camera and presses pieces of dead moths onto a clear strip of 16mm film, leading to a resurrection in the projector’s beam.
Ook in dit verzamelprogramma
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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. -
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. -
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
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
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
Live performance with vintage magic lanterns and handmade slides tells the tale of famed naturalist Hudson’s spellbinding recollection of birds.
Film details
- Productieland
- USA
- Jaar
- 1963
- Festivaleditie
- IFFR 2019
- Lengte
- 4'
- Medium/Formaat
- 16mm
