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DragonflieswithBirdsandSnake<br/> WolfgangLehmann2007-11<br/> Sweden/Germany|Format:16mmtransferredtoDigiBeta|color/b&w|silent|60:33minutes<br/> DragonflieswithBirdsandSnakeisnotadocumentation,itisameditation—apurelyvisualspaceofvibrantimages,ajourneyintoaworldthatwehaveneverhadachanceto“enter.”Thetitlesaysitall;theworkisanimaginativeworldofinsects,consistingofimages,combinedwithbirds,aswellastoadsandsnakes.Thethemeistheeternalcycleoflife,birth,sexanddeath.Thestructureofthefilm’simagesiscontinualchance.<br/> Theimagesarethepicturesintheviewer’sperception.Ingeneral,therearethreedifferentimagesthatarecombinedinstrictrhythm.Theimagesyouseearecausedbytheinertiaoftheeye.Fromtimetotimethereareshiftsinadditiontothecombinationofuptosixdifferentimages.<br/> DragonflieswithBirdsandSnakeisacompositionofimagesandcontainsseveralframesof16mmfilm.Someimagesareself-recorded;othersaretakenfromscientificfilmmaterialandcombinedinacollage-likemanner.DragonflieswithBirdsandSnakeexaminesthemysteriousgreyzoneofimageandimagination.<br/> Underpinningtheeditingofthefilmarenotionsofmosaicsandrepetitivemusic—thatis,byconstantrepetitionandchange.Theimagesthereinareneveractuallyrepeated.Indeed,these“picturepatterns”arechangecontinually.Basically,afantasyworldoftherealmofentomologyemerges,supplementedwithahintofornithology(insect-andbirdwatching).<br/> The16mmfilmstripsweretransferredtoaconventionaleditingtable;tapeanddirtarevisibleandpartoftheaestheticimage.—W.L.