Worm and Web Love

Worm and Web Love

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 1999

Runtime

0h 5m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

Worm and Web Love

Director

Stan Brakhage

Description

WORM AND WEB LOVE begins with bracketed light, a throbbing worm in the sand and sea foam mixed with grass and oceanic detritus, soon superimposed upon the dark blue-toned face of a man, then a woman (Michael McClure and Amy Evans McClure), each seen, then on, through superimpositions of drifting smoke and the back-lit stark grid of a spider's web. The obvious affections of the man and woman, their clear display of love, is metaphored in these tenuous superimpositions, culminating in the frantic movements of the spider itself and the dance of joy of the features of the couple in loving resolution.