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TITLE: MOTHLIGHT
CAST:
DIRECTOR: Brakhage, Stan
LENGTH: 4 min.
COLOR_B&W_TINTED: Color
RELEASE_DATE: 1963
GENRE_MAIN: Death
GENRE_SECOND: Lyrical
GENRE_THIRD: Avant Garde
COUNTRY_OF_ORIGIN: U.S.
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SOUNDTRACK: Silent
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RIGHTS_TV: TV
AVAILABILITY_DATE: Current
TERRITORY_DOMESTIC: U.S.
TERRITORY_CANADA: Canada
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SYNOPSIS: "What a moth might see from birth to death if black were white and white were black." S.B.
"Brakhage made MOTHLIGHT without a camera. He just pasted mothwings and flowers on a clear strip of film and ran it through the printing machine." Jonas Mekas
"MOTHLIGHT is a paradoxical preservation of pieces of dead moths in the eternal medium of light (which is life and draws the moth to death); so it flutters through its very disintegration. This abstract of flight captures matter's struggle to assume its proper form; the death of the moth does not cancel its nature, which on the filmstrip asserts itself. MOTHLIGHT is on one level a parable of death and resurrection, but most really concerns the persistence of the essential form, image, and motion of being." Ken Kelman
