“Giant Rock” is a strange film. It’s not for everyone. But that’s okay. I love this film anyway – in all its slow, otherworldy, desert-dream-vision strangeness.
All of which brings me to the point of this post, which is…
I was very excited last night to receive word that “Giant Rock” has been selected by two film festivals… the First Contact Film Festival and the Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation & Technology.
Thank you to them both for presenting “Giant Rock” to the world.
Grateful and humbled to hear the news today that “This Is Where We’ll Build the Labyrinth” has been named an Official Selection for the 2023 Bloomsday Film Festival and will receive its world premiere screening in Dublin, Ireland between June 12 – 16.
Thank you to the Bloomsday Film Festival and thank you to everyone who played a part in making this short film.
Thanks to the San Francisco Arthouse Short film festival for naming “Then Came the Firestorm” as their Best Covid Film for January 2023.
It seems like it was so long ago when I ventured into the empty city streets with my iPhone to film scenes from another world. But wait… it wasn’t another world. It was our world, wracked by the pandemic that lingers still.
Earlier this year, I travelled to the Southern California desert in and around Joshua Tree National Park. I was inspired by two places in particular, Giant Rock and the Integratron sound bath, to write a narrative poem called “Giant Rock” and turn the poem into a short animated film.
Special thanks to John Vanderslice for the soundtrack, Antoni Villacreces for the animation, and Jacob Winik for audio mastering. I’m starting the process of submitting this strange little trip of a film to festivals now. Wish me luck.
You can check out the trailer here.
I’m thrilled to announce that “Dear Leviathan” has been named a finalist in the poetry film category at the 2022 Absurd Art House film festival. The short film will be shown on July 9th at The Criterion Blue Town Cinema and Music Hall in Sheerness, Kent – that’s in the United Kingdom.
A note about Absurd Art House: “We are open to all international films that don’t fit in, don’t want to fit in, or just can’t be categorised to fit in to the norms expected of so many conservative festivals (you know who you are).”
Super-huge thanks to the Holly Weird Film Festival for choosing my short experimental poetry film “Dear Leviathan” as an official selection. Festival will be held July 10, 2022 in North Hollywood. See the official announcement here.
The festival “celebrates independent films of all genres that feature a distinct vision, a unique voice, or an avant-garde challenge to what is expected or accepted. HWFF provides a venue for narrative, documentary, experimental and avant-garde film and video. Holly Weird is dedicated to celebrating all types of creativity from the worldwide independent film community.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
