Film

Spicebush

2005 · 1h 8m · Documentary

IMDb

5.6

SPICEBUSH interweaves various fragmentary narratives concerning education, luck. landscapes, gaining and losing a job, and the passage of time. The technique and style employed alternates between the documentary, the symbolic, and more conventionally scripted scenes. Filming individuals engaged in their careers conveys the documentary aspect. At a symbolic level, the fossil is a leitmotif suggesting past and present. The title of the film refers to the state butterfly of Mississippi, Spicebush Swallowtail. In the film, Mississippi is a place of origin. The Spicebush Swallowtail represents renewal or starting over. Throughout the film, a little girl appears in different guises and settings, functioning indirectly in the role of the chorus. The scripted scenes, shot in a documentary style, collaged with the other scenes begin to create the traces of a narrative structure.

• Kevin Jerome EversonDirector · Producer · Director of Photography · Writer
• David ReidOriginal Music Composer
• Lin QiuEditor

Release date

January 26, 2005

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 8m

Genres

Documentary