Many thanks to the End of Days Film Festival for selecting both “Chernobyl” and “Don’t Forget to Pack Your Hand Grenade” for their 2022 festival.
Boom. Boom. Boom.
Apocalyptic Thanks
On the Radio
Thanks to The Lost Church radio for playing a couple of my songs yesterday.
It was pretty amazing to hear my tunes among all the great songs being played.
I look forward to the day The Lost Church opens their new space in North Beach. Who knows. Maybe I’ll play a gig there???
Bella Italia
I’m excited to announce that “Then Came the Firestorm” was named a Semi-Finalist this week in the Videopoetry category at the 10th Bologna in Lettere festival.
Here’s some info from the official website about Bologna in Lettere – A Multidisciplinary Festival of Contemporary Literature.
The festival was born from a previous project called “Necessary Literature,” which aimed to eliminate territorial barriers by creating multimedia events. More than 1,500 authors from various backgrounds (poets, writers, critics, philosophers, video artists, musicians, performers, and others) have participated in the previous nine editions of Bologna in Lettere.
Official Selection: Socially Relevant Film Festival
Thank you to SR Socially Relevant Film Festival New York for including my animated short “He Runs” as an official selection in your festival. I greatly appreciate (and am humbled) by this honor.
Check out Socially Relevent’s website to see some trailers and learn more about this event taking place in New York and online in March 2022.
Happy Year of the Tiger … Mask
Happy Year of the Tiger. And happy Year of the Tiger Mask while I’m at it.
Click on the image below to hear a song called “Notorious,” inspired by the Hitchcock movie of the same name. The tune appears on my “Year of the Tiger Mask” EP, recorded in 2020 at Tiny Telephone in San Francisco.
A Night in Japantown
December 4, 2021. A fun night at the Another Hole in the Head film festival, where “Then Came the Firestorm” screened at the New People Cinema in San Francisco’s Japantown as part of a collection of a dozen local short films. Photos: (1) the sold-out theater begins to fill; (2) waiting to watch; (3) filmmaker Q&A; and (4) celebratory cocktails and karaoke watching at Dimples.
Another Hole in the Head
Thanks to the fine people at Another Hole in the Head for making “Then Came the Firestorm” an official selection at their 18th annual film festival. My poetry film is one of a dozen shorts playing in the “Strictly Local 1” group, a diverse collection of short films made by filmmakers in the San Francisco Bay Area. You can catch the official screening on December 4, 2021 at the New People Cinema in Japantown (San Francisco, California). Or watch it online from December 1 – 15. Learn more at AHITH.com.
All-Day Absurdity
Thanks to Absurd Art House for selecting my short poetry film “Then Came the Firestorm” for the first-ever Absurd Art House Film Festival, taking place on October 23 at the Criterion Music Hall Theatre in Blue Town. That’s right, this coming Saturday, if you happen to find yourself in Sheerness (Kent, UK), head on over to the lovely theatre on High Street for an all-day lineup of absurd films (including mine).
One Night in Wisconsin (and Two Weeks Online)
October 8, 2021. Grateful to the Arts + Literature Laboratory for showing “He Runs” and a wonderful selection of other poetry films TONIGHT at the Midwest Video Poetry Fest. Can’t make it to Wisconsin? The show will be available online for two weeks starting on Monday, Oct 11, 2021, on ALL’s YouTube channel.
Make Art Not Fear
I’m excited to report that my short poetry film “Then Came the Firestorm” has been named an Official Selection at the Make Art Not Fear festival – coming to you all the way from Porto, Portgual. But wait … there’s more! Another one of my poetry films (“Dear Leviathan”) was also selected! Super huge thanks to the organizers of this cool festival, the one with the best name.
