Wednesday 20 October 2010

Stan Brakhage, "Mothlight" (1963)


Stan Brakhage, Mothlight, 1963
Direct film technique.

Mothlight (1963) Brakhage pressed various objects between two clear strips of film and managed to persuade his local image lab to process this through the film printer. Half of the footage was processed and became Mothlight. Brakhage described the film as "what a moth might see between birth and death"