butterfly disaster

“butterfly disaster” | 2019 | 16mm to digital | color | sound | 6:50 minutes “What looks like agricultural success, purging bean and corn fields of milkweed (among other weeds), turns out to be a butterfly disaster.” –Verlyn Klinkenborg, “Monarchs Fight for Their Lives,” New York Times, Oct. 12, 2013. Inspired by Klinkenborg’s article, using found footage from four different sources, I edited, optically-printed, superimposed, scratched on, bleached and otherwise altered the film to highlight, lament and challenge the monarch butterflies’ dilemma.

Year

2019

Director

Caryn Cline

Duration

6 min

Country

United States