Kacho (Flowers and Birds)
About
Here, the bird is right smack in the center of the image. I'd like to get closer, to fill the frame and play with its edges, but I can't so there it is, in the center. I'd like to move around, do some tricks with my camera, but I'm too fascinated with these magnificent birds to do anything but stare. I can't gain the distance to abstract, I'm held by these birds. I'm on vacation with Bill's family and I follow them, bird watching. With two generations of ornithologists in the clan, they're birds from way back, and this movie is about them. I set off into metaphor, appropriating what the place we were visiting was loaded with–flowers and birds–as symbols: obvious, time-worn, and easy at hand. The film I brought home turned out to be a lullaby. Kacho is Japanese for flowers and birds as a motif in art. The artist sublimates emotion to express it through images from nature. such use of imagery is one route to abstraction in film. –K. M.
Films
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Other films by this artist in our catalogue
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A Family Passion
Katrina Martin16mm, color, silent, 18.5 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Tyrone, PA.
Katrina Martin16mm, black and white, silent, 16 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Silkscreen
Katrina Martin16mm, color, sound, 19 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Daffodils
Katrina Martin16mm, color, silent, 2.5 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Hanafuda/Jasper/Johns
Katrina Martin16mm, color, sound, 35 minRental format: 16mm - Read More
The Watch Dog Dragon
Katrina Martin16mm, color, silent, 11 minRental format: 16mm