the scared is scared

Bianca Giaever asked a six year old friend what her movie should be about, and this is the result. It's seven minutes, but worth watching the whole thing. Kids are wise little beings.

dry bones

Discovered via sail thou forth.

mothlight

Stan Brakhage, Mothlight, 1963: "created without the use of a camera by ... pressing moth wings, leaves, and other organic objects between two strips of Mylar tape and then rephotographing it by running it through an optical printer." (Walker Art Center)

this weekend

Pieces of this and that.

• book/shop
• heartless
• the master
• lox

Happy weekend.

Fred Camper’s collage of Stan Brakhage filmstrips from the film Mothlight (1963), discovered thanks to a young hare.

in the street

Helen Levitt and James Agee: In the Street, 1941. Discovered thanks to Lapham's Quarterly.

Worth reading: Roy Arden: "Useless Reportage - Notes on Helen Levitt's In The Street."