Pheasant Hunting by Sara Mithra
Another videopoem using found film by Sara Mithra. The description on Vimeo reads:
A poem film by Sara Mithra with music by Maali Maal for Hameenia. I edited footage from the Prelinger Archives of color home movies from the 50s and 60s, cataloguing at least ten hours of film to select these two minutes of clips. The amateur quality of these films, together with the hand-held cinematography and lack of zoom, inspired me to select clips which show the film’s age and draw attention to its material quality by being discolored, scratched, poorly digitized, etc.
As far as my poem, I wanted visuals which were rich, vibrant, and if not capturing the narrative quality of pheasant hunting, could match its erotic power.
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Dave Bonta is a poet, editor, and web publisher from the Appalachian mountains of central Pennsylvania.
