Metamorphosis

"...examines a cluster of plants by shifting focus so that the image is in constant flux. Layers materialize and vanish very gradually. Perspectival foreground/depth relationships are abandoned for the perpetual reconstruction of a surface. The camera moves frequently, but its movements never reveal the scene's spatial coordinates or clarify the suggestion of a frame on the left edge of the screen...The focusing apparatus is totally hidden within the body of the camera, but it enforces its way of seeing with such force that the objects recorded are radically diminished in terms of their reference to the phenomenonal world." — Ellen Feldman, "A History of the American Avant-Garde Cinema" catalogue, A.F.A. traveling exhibition.

"The controlled flux and framings in Converging Lines and of focus in Metamorphosis are particularly beautiful gems. All his films contain his ecstatic response to qualities of natural light as the revealer of his film (artifical light) imagery." — Michael Snow.

Author: 

Year: 

1970

Country: 

United States
Technical data

Original format: 

16mm

Speed: 

16FPS

Aspect ratio: 

1.37:1

Colour: 

Colour

Sound: 

Silent

Length: 

4 minutes

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