A "found foliage" film composed of insects, leaves, and other detritus sandwiched between two strips of perforated tape.
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Seemingly at random, the wings and other bits of moths and insects move rapidly across the screen. Most are brown or sepia; up close, we can see patterns within wings, similar to the veins in a leaf. Sometimes the images look like paper cutouts, like Matisse. Green objects occasionally appear. Most wings are translucent. The technique makes them appear to be stuck directly to the film.
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MOTHLIGHT
(Japan, Japanese title)
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Το φως της νυχτοπεταλούδας
(Greece)
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Φως του σκόρου
(Greece)
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Мотыльковый свет
(Soviet Union, Russian title)
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No camera was used to make this short movie: legs, wings and other parts of butterflies were glued directly on the filmstrip, thus creating a shifting pattern of unsurpassed beauty.
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Featured in
By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volume One (2003).
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