In this collage of simple images from everyday life, such as feet and butterflies, birds and flowers, the pedestrian nature of human origins is found at play amongst images of a compromised nature. From vignettes of machine-fed birds that mirror a fascination with wings, this film reflects on some of the darker fruits of man’s desire for the capacity for flight. Using both colour and B&W stock, “About Flight” is mainly processed by hand and modulated with colour tints, toning and both in-camera and darkroom effects.
About Flight: The Surly Bonds of Earth
- Film Maker
- Gillespie, James Loran
- Year
- 2003
- Country
- Canada
- Language
- Format
- 16mm
- Length
- 10
- Genre
- experimental, hand-processed
- Category
- Earth, Ecology, environment, Film Farm, Landscape


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