'Other Garden Glimpses' by Marck Menke

Images of plants, gardens or natural landscapes ("wild" gardens) are not abstracts. Yet their sublime otherness and often remote unfamiliarity can be a source of free-form mental and emotional experience. This and a related idea, that sheer beauty is more than ornamental, remain surprisingly controversial.

Though not intended as a remake or sequel in the usual sense of the word, 'Other Garden Glimpses' was partly inspired by 1957 short film 'Glimpse of the Garden'by Marie Menken. This now-classic work helped challenge the assumption that botanical beauty was not a fitting subject for avant-garde expressionist filmmaking. The film elegantly argued that prettiness does not equal pettiness... and as an artist who works with plants and other concentrated sources of sensory pleasure, I fully agree.

Marck Menke

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Film & Animation

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