Beautiful Funerals

“Beautiful Funerals” is a hand-painted double-step-printed film composed of : 1) dense blackness variously punctuated by brilliantly colored jewel/flower-like shapes; 2) interruptive white sections which are fuzzily dotted with blurred whites and criss-crossed by black “brushstrokes” and hard-edge straight black-and-white lines. Finally there is a brilliant pinkish flare veined with curled blue lines which engenders a resolution between these (above described) alternating modes – colours in the straight-line sections, lines among the artifice of “flowers,” a kind of dark lattice-form which knits the two modes, gray and coloured “clouds” which correlate them.