Butterfly Disaster

director: Caryn Cline

original title: Butterfly Disaster

year: 2019

running time: 6 min.

synopsis

Extinction of monarch butterflies in the US became a topic of a film based on manipulation of found footage. The director adjusts archival recordings of butterflies or planes spreading fertilizers through double exposure, scratching, colouring and so don, coming up with a purely visual micro-essay asking who is really the pest and who is the infested in this ecosystem.

biography

Plant kingdom, especially weeds, inspire most works by American experimental filmmaker Caryn Cline. She makes found footage and 16mm films. Her film In the Conservatory was screened at Ji.hlava IFDF in 2010.

more about film

director:	Caryn Cline
producer:	Caryn Cline
photography:	Caryn Cline
editing:	Viktor L
sound:	Andrés Montaña

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