FIREFLY

by Peter MILLER
2006 / 35mm / color / silent / 1S / 4' 00

A boy and a girl expose a quantity of film to a constellation of fireflies, creating a cameraless portrait of bioluminescence. Perhaps a descendant of Mothlight, “what the world might look like to a firefly, from birth to death.”


Statement: An entomological etymology: it is because of “Luciferose” that fireflies glow. Fickle, flickery creatures, fireflies are best left to trace their own compositions in time and on the space of film directly, which, when unfurled, releases their pulses and dances in a jungle of illuminated film tendrils.



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