Magic Explained 1980

Magic Explained (1980) is a film in the lookmovie catalog, running 4m. Directed by Diana Barrie. Magic Explained (1980) plays with a set of traditional symbols that appear frequently in Barrie’s work—and that are familiar from Maya Deren’s Meshes of the Afternoon—in a manner analogous to Méliés’s play with people and objects; the imagery is exquisitely hand-scratched and hand-painted.