Cat of the Worm’s Green Realm, The

Film Maker
Brakhage, Stan
Year
1997
Country
U.S.A.
Language
Format
16mm
Length
18
Genre
experimental

Flares of colour break into streams of light, leaves, wood grain and prism-etched vegetation. A moon lifts out of this dark weave to be replaced by autumn leaves against a grainy sky, a fiery sky. The moon, again, caught in clouds. The movements, moonlit, of a cat. Vegetation and toned flares (a kind of “ghost light” midst microscopic photography of leaves and twigs). A gray cat licks itself, its nametag reflected in lens refractions midst microscopic visions of ice and snow, autumn leaves, green leaves, a distant snow-laden green scene. A black cat sits quickly down on a green lawn. A night of shards of forms in darkness passes into day again…again an octagonal light shape “echoing” the cat’s nametag midst, now coloured leaves in extreme close-up and at some distance mixed with sun. Again a “night” of showering dark, a “dawn” of pinks and yellows of plant growth in close-up. A kind of gentle yellow “high noon” prevails into which the orange worm appears and reappears, twisting, arching, turning. A phosphorescent orange of leaves explodes midst greens and black holes appropriate to the image of the worm. Flares of suns, imprismed midst yellows and greens and vibrant sky blues…always the forms of many varieties of leafage mix with a veritable rain or clash of overall tones, a fire of forms, a glowing colour photo-negative of worm, and the final canopies of autumn tone and sky tone permeated by sun, sun streaks and octagonal prism shapes as infinitum.

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