I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died
Since this was my first animated film that I sent out into the world, back in 1989, I decided it would be the first I would post on the web. I'm very excited to put up more! Stay tuned!
posted by Lynn at 11:28 PM
3 Comments:
This animation gave me an insight I hadn't had before about this poem -- that flies lay their eggs in dead flesh, which then turn to maggots who eat the flesh. Dickinson was commenting explicitly about the natural world (and by implication, its relationship to the spiritual world).
Yes! I had the idea to make this film after a Professor I had as an English major at Cornell said that the "windows failed" ws her eyelids ceasing to operate anymore - that she couldn't see because the fly was on her eye! It was so wonderfully gruesome that it stuck with me for a year until I animated this film.
Lynn--I like how the fragmented "fly eye" offers multiple perspectives at the end. It's an inspired idea.
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