Micro Garden

USA 2002, 16mm, col, silent, 4:00 min

realized by:

Stan Brakhage

available copies:

The Film-Makers' Cooperative:

available for rent

Canyon Cinema Inc.:

available for rent

synopsis: The Film-Makers' Cooperative On-Line Catalog 2004

Red and ephemeral blue and purple plant shapes half-curled against a tan ground, which begins to flash white cracks in dried mud patterns. A flush of watery blues (in this hand-painted step-printed film) brightens the plant-skein into a variety of greens mixed into all other colors-all darkening into smeared mud-blacks with microscopic beseeming black "splatters" (where mud-like cracks used to be.) The turquoise blues, red and tans resolve into a flare of red at end.

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