W.H. Hudson’s Remarkable Argentine Ornithology
A live performance with vintage magic lanterns and handmade lantern slides tells the tale of famed naturalist Hudson’s spellbinding recollection of birds seen as a child from the pampas of his native Argentina. But the magic lantern also brings out other, hidden layers, including an encounter with nature teetering between joy and dread.
Also in this combined programme
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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. -
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.
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2013
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 15'
- Medium/Format
- Special
