On July 20th of 2004, a butterfly takes flight in a meadow in Bengtsgård (Sweden), GPS location N. 56° 58.14 / E. 12° 28.94.

For his third solo show at Galleria Franco Noero, Henrik Håkansson recreates the conditions of a theater, using the devices of a real cinema room, to focus on the lift off and the flight of a Green-veined White butterfly (Pieris napi).

The film shows a moment, 0,25 second shot in a 10 cm large microcosm, slowed to a 1min 20 sequence and projected onto a large cinema screen in the 2:35 format of the ʻcinemascopeʼ without any sound; only the grinding 35mm projector mounted on loop sings the imposing structure of its complex machinery.

Håkansson point outs through a magnifiyng glass the perpetual activity of a small being, transforming one its most natural and common mean of moving into a human-scale spectacle. Beyond documentation and scientific research, this film reveals all the grace, the beauty and the elegance of the intense and delicate movements of a butterfly taking into flight, increased by the flickering image of the projection.