Mothlight

Mothlight (1963)

Definito un film-collage muto, Mothlight è un film realizzato senza cinepresa. Brakhage raccolse ali di falena, petali di fiori e fili d'erba, tutti sottili e traslucidi in modo da far passare la luce, e li pressò tra due strisce di pellicola da 16 mm. L'assemblaggio così ottenuto è stato poi stampato in laboratorio per consentirne la proiezione.

Data di uscita
1963-12-02
TMDB
5.6 / 10 (105)
Durata
3 min
Generi
Animazione
Regista
Stan Brakhage

Curiosità

Mothlight is an experimental short film by Stan Brakhage, released in 1963. The film was created without the use of a camera.

Production

Brakhage was initially drawn to the idea of using moths in a film when he noticed many of them burning to death in a candle:

Here is a film that I made out of a deep grief. The grief is my business in a way, but the grief was helpful in squeezing the little film out of me, that I said "these crazy moths are flying into the candlelight, and burning themselves to death, and that's what's happening to me. I don't have enough money to make these films, and ... I'm not feeding my children properly, because of these damn films, you know. And I'm burning up here ...

After spending some time following live moths with a camera, an exercise that proved fruitless, Brakhage instead turned his attention towards using dead moths:

"Over the lightbulbs there's all these dead moth wings, and I ... hate that. Such a sadness; there must surely be something to do with that. I tenderly picked them out and start pasting them onto a strip of film, to try to ... give them life again, to animate them again, to try to put them into some sort of life through the motion picture machine."

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