UNITED STATES · 1999
The Earthsong of the Cricket
European Art Cinema
abstract animation
insect imagery
hand-painted film
sound visualization
experimental cinema
Synopsis
This is a hand-painted work whose shapes are scratched on black leader filled with varieties of color: the resultant shapes tend to suggest insect-like movements, a rub of bent-lines together suggesting the electric hind legs of the cricket, whose movements engender (thru elaborate step-printing) quick pull-backs within frames of the film, so contrived as to create visual agitron lines within the
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