{"id":16610,"date":"2015-04-07T01:04:45","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T00:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=16610"},"modified":"2021-11-11T17:01:06","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T16:01:06","slug":"mothlight-a-film-by-stan-brakhage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/04\/07\/mothlight-a-film-by-stan-brakhage\/","title":{"rendered":"Mothlight, a film by Stan Brakhage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Yt3nDgnC7M8\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"mothlight.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/mothlight.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the common methods of making a no-budget abstract film was to scratch or paint directly onto the film itself, a technique popularised by Len Lye in the 1930s. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Yt3nDgnC7M8\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Mothlight<\/em><\/a> (1963) by Stan Brakhage works a variation on the process by gluing broken moth wings, leaves and other bits of natural detritus to a length of film. It only runs for three minutes but it&#8217;s a classic piece of experimental cinema. As usual with Brakhage, the titles are hand-drawn, and the film itself is silent.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/themed-archive-pages\/the-abstract-cinema-archive\/\">The abstract cinema archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the common methods of making a no-budget abstract film was to scratch or paint directly onto the film itself, a technique popularised by Len Lye in the 1930s. Mothlight (1963) by Stan Brakhage works a variation on the process by gluing broken moth wings, leaves and other bits of natural detritus to a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/04\/07\/mothlight-a-film-by-stan-brakhage\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mothlight, a film by Stan Brakhage&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[49,7],"tags":[3506,2864,850,3262],"class_list":["post-16610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abstract-cinema","category-film","tag-james-whitney","tag-jordan-belson","tag-len-lye","tag-stan-brakhage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4jU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}