Poster of The Earthsong of the Cricket

The Earthsong of the Cricket

Plot: 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 zoom-like effect whose rhythm approximates a cricket's repetitive sound. This effect is echoed ephemerally later in the film as it nears its end of muted pull-down shapes and approximations of the earth-clod-likenesses and/or autumnal leaf-likenesses which begin the film
Release Date: Friday, February 26 1999
25 years ago
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Portrait of Stan BrakhageStan Brakhage
Stan Brakhage was
66 in The Earthsong of the Cricket
as 'Director'
Sat, Jan 14 1933 –
Sun, Mar 09 2003