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Somewhere between chlorophyll and grief lies In a Naturalist's Garden, a film that refuses to genuflect to either narrative coherence or conventional empathy. It is, at once, a herbarium of traumas and a gallery of optical feints, shot on decaying 35 mm stock that blisters like bark beetle trails. C.L. Chester—part le...


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C.L. Chester

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" Somewhere between chlorophyll and grief lies In a Naturalist's Garden, a film that refuses to genuflect to either narrative coherence or conventional empathy. It is, at once, a herbarium of traumas and a gallery of optical feints, shot on decaying 35 mm stock that blisters like bark beetle trails. C.L. Chester—part lepidopterist, part penitent—doesn’t act so much as photosynthesize on screen, his pupils dilating to the exact diameter of the moth wings he traps between glass slides. Eco-Gothic ..."


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