Flight of Shadows

1973 • Directed by

Michael Mideke

I am preoccupied with shadows. The physical, material film is a machine for casting shadows. The experience of film is a mental journey among shadows. Light of the sun is obscured by branches and the leaves of trees, casting shadows on the variegated surfaces of the ground. Shadow shapes make soft images of branches and trees... Spaces between leaves become pinhole lenses, covering the ground with circles of confusion. (MM)