Animation, Experimental Film
Reteach a Thing Its Loveliness, 2009, 1 min, experimental animation. Directed & Animated by Eva Lee. Sound by Chris McKenna.
The imagined internal beauty of all living forms. Abstract biomorphic shapes transform one into the other, recalling cells, bones, organelles, and scientific imaging.
After Galway Kinnell poem “St. Francis and the Sow” excerpt:
“The bud
stands for all things,
even those things that don’t flower,
for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing;
though sometimes it is necessary
to reteach a thing its loveliness,
to put a hand on its brow
of the flower
and retell it in words and in touch
it is lovely
until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing;…”