Making "Serpent" (1980)
Barlett narrates MAKING SERPENT and describes the creative process behind SERPENT, his award winning short of 1971. MAKING SERPENT is a step-by-step teaching device that explores film techniques such as: how to structure a non- verbal narrative; how to shoot film for special editing techniques; how to isolate universal images in nature; how to make exciting visuals inexpensively. Shown together with SERPENT, this film becomes an important educational aid for film and art students alike. An entire film course in cinemagraphics. – Gail Silva, Film Arts Foundation, California I consider it a reasonable antidote to some of the loose pretensions of structural film. – Stan Brakage, Filmmaker Colorado Eisenstein Film Form Continued on Film. – Bruce Baillie, Filmmaker, Washington.
Director: Scott Bartlett
| Directing | Scott Bartlett | Director |