Full Bloom is a series, written by Patrick Holzapfel and illustrated by Ivana Miloš, that reconsiders plants in cinema. Directors have given certain flowers, trees or herbs special attention for many different reasons. It’s time to give them the credit they deserve and highlight their contributions to cinema, in full bloom.Ivana Miloš, Quince Alight (2021), monotype and gouache on paper, 33 x 24 cmAGAINST The Weight Of The WORLDFor see, my friend goes shaking and white;He eyes me as the basilisk:i have turned, it appears, his day to night,Eclipsing his sun's disk—Robert Browning, “A Light Woman”Brown rotten quinces. They used to be lushly golden. Now they are decaying on the ground. The camera’s gaze rested on them like a basilisk’s deadly eyes. It asked too much of the quince tree. It would have happened anyway but it catalyzed its death. Like time, cinema always catalyzes death.
- 12/20/2021
- MUBI
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