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Mothlight - Stan Brakhage 1963

     In Brakhage’s experimental film Mothlight, he uses the fragments of dead moths such as their wings and creates a film by taking many frames of moth pieces shining a light through a strip of film. The movie is silent and may be disturbing to watch at first. When you forget that what you are seeing are dead moths then are you able to see the beauty of the artwork and at some parts, you’re eyes trick you and you almost seem to be watching the moths take flight. Stan Brakhage says “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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