Suzan Pitt – Asparagus (1979)

Quote:
I had a garden where I grew Asparagus from seed – it’s a very primitive vegetable going back to the time of the dinosaurs. It comes out of the ground as a phallic stalk, pointy and purple green, the essence of a beautiful masculine form. But then as summer passes it stretches tall and becomes a delicate fern, seen on roadsides tilting in the wind, the essence of the feminine like long strands of tangled hair in the breeze. I thought of it as a beautiful symbol of sexuality. From that I made a visual poem about the creative process, taking the role of the magician/artist as the protagonist who ushers the viewers through her search for the essence of the creative forces which rule and drive our existence.
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Being merely human she searches and watches and tries to see into the secrets of the passing garden… she imagines a sexual interrelationship, those particular moments in which all is knowable and awareness of time and being simply Are. Paper illusions created to represent the search are carefully presented, performing in the theater, and she returns home to the garden.

I wanted the film to mirror the way we daydream – as Jung said, “Images are pregnant”: each image leading to the next, the mind unfolding, constantly giving birth. I wanted the audience to see the film unfold as if in a daydream. Paced slowly and carefully, each stage and scene fully dense and a bit hyper-illusionistic, the movement going forward without the jar of the “cut”. I brought back the”wipe”, an early film device to create transitions to keep the action evolving more than changing.

The film is a circle more than a straight-ahead experience – you could enter at any point and the meaning would be the same. The taking in and spewing out, the searching and the discovering, the desire and the contact, the ever-evolving acts of nature. There is something of the 60’s and the 70’s there in the film- acid and hallucinogens and spectacular insight and the trance of getting lost and being found- and color. All my films have been made by hand and shot under a 35mm camera – the slight jiggles and the layering of the cels and the hand-drawn animation, and the staccato vibrations of the shading and the variances of light and the medium of film itself are all a part of the way the movies look and feel. To me as different as looking at a painting and looking at a reproduction of a painting – the film quality itself is a part of the message.

Suzan Pitt - 1979 - Asparagus [WEB 576p].mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	18 min 12 s
Size: 	348 MiB
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Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	768x576 
Aspect ratio:  	4:3
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	2 447 kb/s
BPP: 	0.231
Audio
#1:  	English 2.0ch E-AC-3 @ 224 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/9C5E9793E5551F0/Suzan_Pitt_-_1979_-_Asparagus__WEB_576p_.mkv

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