Metamorphosis: Visions of Dark Elegies »

“Metamorphosis” is an animation recently created by the distinguished digital artist Glenn Marshall. A number of people have posted glowing reviews about the film, many of which have consisted of brief two-or-three sentence, superficial comments about “Metamorphosis” that simply say “it's beautiful,” or “it's a beautiful vision.” Much to the contrary, Metamorphosis is totally plotless, yet strangely at the same time it's emotionally very painful to watch. Painful because if one is really thoughtful about this short-film, its “stylish graphic design” that disguises a dark underlying theme soon falls away. That concealed message is revealed to be a stark requiem of anger and death. The film evolved from Marshall’s earlier obsession with butterfly wing patterns as imaginary worlds of life unto death. Marshall’s own metamorphosis in creating this new animation-noir ended up forging a mythical, shadowy world in which seemingly boundless masses of butterflies appear to be trapped in suffocating confinement, eventually flittering and fluttering aimlessly away into a darkened cosmic void, into a state of non-existence. In a way, “Metamorphosis” turns Alfred Hitchcock's “The Birds” on its head, as it evolves into a horror film with victimized butterflies. Confronted with this painful animation-noir, I recalled something that Carl Sagan, the astronomer, educator, author (Cosmos, 1980) and Co-Founder of The Planetary Society once said: “We are all like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.” This detailed article includes intriguing, high-quality images from the film, as well as the animated video.

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