Onyou Oh

School of Film/Video, Film and Video, MFA 3

Alchemical Botany

A small garden, which comprises particles of stars and petals sent from outer space, expands itself through an alchemical process in a moment. Alchemical Botany is an experimental audio-visual interpretation of Emily Dickinson’s poem "The Name — of it — is ‘Autumn.'" Shot on 16mm film and hand-processed, the film unveils the interrelationship between the images and the sounds that resonate with the poem, along with the abstract shapes generated during the process of tinting the film base.