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The Earthsong of the Cricket
UNITED STATES · 1999

The Earthsong of the Cricket

Stan Brakhage
abstract animation insect imagery hand-painted film sound visualization experimental cinema
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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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