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Stan Brakhage, "Mothlight" (1963)

Here, the great film artist Stan Brakhage has pressed insect parts and other organic debris onto film for this quickly animated art house classic. I like these sorts of image environments, wherein rhetorical theory is challenged by formalist values. As a rhetorician films such as this force me to consider how authorial vision, technology, and media collude to create vivid commentary or statements, in this case about the temporality of life.

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