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Worm and Web Love
UNITED STATES · 1999

Worm and Web Love

Stan Brakhage
nature and human connection experimental cinema superimposition and layering organic imagery intimate portraiture
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Synopsis

WORM AND WEB LOVE begins with bracketed light, a throbbing worm in the sand and sea foam mixed with grass and oceanic detritus, soon superimposed upon the dark blue-toned face of a man, then a woman (Michael McClure and Amy Evans McClure), each seen, then on, through superimpositions of drifting smoke and the back-lit stark grid of a spider's web. The obvious affections of the man and woman, their

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