Stan Brakhage, 1963
Mothlight, by one of the best of all time. Made by pressing”found foliage” between perforated tape.
Norman McLaren, 1949
A Fantasy in Colors, from the late forties. McLaren was an pioneer and experimentalist in the world of animation. Students attending graphic design college may have heard of McLaren. Here’s one of the best:
The Alphabet
David Lynch classic. Needs to be watched quarterly.
Get Into It: “Opera Cabal”
The “Get Into It” interviews find interesting people and asks them three questions about their interests. Ideally, this will have nothing to do with literature. Too often while bopping around the louche, litmag web haunts, it can feel like a claustrophobic room of monomaniacal chatbots. “Get Into It” should serve as a reminder that we […]