Showing posts with label cecelia chapman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cecelia chapman. Show all posts

30.1.24

Time is Untape video with Jeff Crouch at From the Body of the Sign to the Cyber Sky....



2st International Colloquium of Visual Poetry: From the Body of the Sign to the Cyber Sky, held virtually between November 27 and december 02, 2023. 

Very cool visual poetry work at this link... https://www.jornadadepoesiavisual.com/mostravirtual2023


Cold Mountain Moon

 


Cold Mountain video series contemplates human relationships with the natural environment. The title, Cold Mountain, is attributed to a legendary Tang era (618–907) recluse’s poetry. Two crazy hermits giggling and pointing at the moon are repeated in Asian painting, referring to the Daoist sage-hobo poet, Han Shan, and his friend, Shide, living in nature. Poet Gary Snyder’s 1950’s translations of selected Cold Mountain poems, and characterisation of the hermit, are depicted in Jack Kerouac’s 1958 novel, The Dharma Bums. 

https://www.ceceliachapman.com/projects#/cold-mountain/  

Surfers Soul and Hunters Heart  https://youtu.be/k2j0ViUVHZc 

Cold Mountain Moon   https://vimeo.com/907774309      






16.12.23

Cold Mountain - Surfers Soul...video with Rafael Gonzalez, Hal McGee music....


Surfers Soul video is from Cold Mountain film series 2023 exploring various human relationships with environment. The title, Cold Mountain, is attributed to a legendary Tang era (618–907) recluse’s poetry. Two crazy hermits giggling and pointing at the moon are repeated in Asian painting, referring to the Daoist sage-hobo poet and his friend living in nature. Poet Gary Snyder’s 1950’s translations of selected Cold Mountain poems, and characterisation of the hermit, are depicted in Jack Kerouac’s novel, The Dharma Bums 1958. The end of the first video, Hunters Heart, ends with the line ‘clouds like fish scales,’ that leads into Surfers Soul, the second video. To the surfer and hunter, these clouds indicate good weather and waves, an understanding of nature, and enlightened relationship in conversation with environment. “Who can sit with me among white clouds?”

5.12.23

Hunters Heart &Surfers Soul at JokerJokerTV Thursday....

 JJtv: https://jokerjokertv.com/WATCH/

YT: https://www.youtube.com/live/3WWjWUUHui8
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/jokerjokertv


JOKERJOKERtv, produced in Athens GA, is a weekly livestream show that airs every Thursday night at 6:30 (EST) on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/c/JOKERJOKERtvofficial). The program features all types of submissions from independent and underground artists including: music videos, short film, video skits, interviews with artists, live performances and more.




19.11.23

...if you are in Amsterdam December 8, 9, 10...LOSDOK exhibit...

Marit Scheulderman, Mirjam van Baardwijk, Karin Balogh, 

Isolde Kille, Nadia Gar, Cecelia Chapman

And… NDSM FUSE, 09/02/24, Amsterdam, Netherlands

 




27.10.23

...your strange, definitely wicked vintage environmental video today...Meet the Bluffs 2010....








California has a very big problem with cliffs falling into the sea - more storms from global warming,  bigger waves and rough seas, changing weather patterns, more rain, more earthquakes. The cliffs fall taking houses and apartments with them - and yet, the California realtors continue to rent the buildings as Army corps of engineers continue to drop big rocks in the sea to block the sea. 

Meet Mr. and Mrs. Bluff. Yes, he does look like that xmas party coke dealer and she looks like the art director that fired you, But we'll just address them as the Bluffs, the name of the building where they want to rent a piece of the good life on the cliffs with ocean view. Just up the beach we see an evacuated building... How can this be? Don't the Bluff's realize?


The realtor did not mention their new apartment might be on the beach come winter. Yes. Advertising and truth have a way of - parting ways in California.


Filmed, Pacifica, California 2010. Music Blaine Reininger, Jeff Crouch.



day turns black

big winds blow

bad tides running

in an evil night

when the earth

falls in the sea.


darkness sets me free 

in dreams gone mad

when the earth covers me

free of hatred, free of fear

free of love, free of you my dear


when the earth covers me

when the earth falls in the sea.


25.10.23

...and by the way, wicked post...Dogs of War with Jeff Crouch &other things....

 













...today's wicked film...Eat the Night...



 A pilot and guard on contract job extinguishing humans.

PILOT man   ...after titan6 this dirtball's dead, but hey, I'm glad we teamed up... Where'd you get that arm?


GUARD woman     ...Dorado...


P.   Whoa!


G.  Dorado's the best... next time I want the head. ...nice ride you got here...


P.   What's the id on this job?


G.   ... block 6 target human, full breed, unaltered, name's Wolf...


P.   ...real bank for unaltereds... 


G.  ...everyone wants one...  but who'd want to stay un...


P.   ... hey, I got a idea... forget extinguishing the human, let's go indie on the mark, eat the night, take it in. We're just

        contract, no one checks default ops...


G.   I like the way you think... maybe we hit Dorado for matching wiring later... ...ever take a human?


P.    no, everything else...  block 6! tracking target... 


G.   I want to exit and take it with you...


P.   ...someone's gotta stay shipside... ..alright, alright, grab the MO before we lock base... no backup, let's make this 

         fast, after 3 time quads we're bait, who knows how many more are out here...


G.  ...I heard stories...


P.   ...mostly going to be stories - very few humans caught alive...


       

CLOSING SOUNDS, PAIR OF WALKING SOUNDS 



P.    look! ...got it in my reds! see it? 


G.    what's it doing? 


P.     who cares?


G.   ...is that hair on it?


P.    ...dirtball human's growing... ears? A tail?


G.    ...it's as if, like -  I can feel like it's eyes all over me!  It's body is so...  that's why everyone wants one you want  to

        just touch it... why is it getting down on the ground? 


P.     wow!  it just ran away fast...


G.    now what?  


P.     I don't know, let me see the MO.... hey, it says 'do not exit ship to track human,'  let's go back... 



WALKING SOUNDS



P.    is that the human in the ship?


G.    ...and you're out here...


P.     what's that mean?


G.    ...eat the night...



LOUD SHOT, ONE PAIR OF FOOTSTEPS


23.10.23

today's strange, maybe wicked, film...La Reina Loba...

La Reina Loba in Spanish...but it is in English here... https://youtu.be/kZBeHsFK37Y ...meet a post-Roman dark ages Iberian 'witch' queen taking on empires... 

 




Making this film, I wanted to ‘rewild’ Reina Loba, to set her free from centuries of propaganda. Reina Loba, Wolf Queen of Galicia, Queen Lupa, c.45 AD, ruled an important territory in the Iberian Peninsula. The Romans, Visigoths, her neighbours, and Church all wanted to possess her lands. In researching her story, I came to believe Reina Loba resisted the Christian Empire. She understood it was a predatory system of empire capitalism that benefited the elite with capital. Queen Lupa represented the end of the barter and trade system. A French monk recorded Reina Loba’s story in Codex Calixtinus for Pope Calixtus in 1138. The book was a travel guide, advice for pilgrims following the Way of Saint James, a patron saint in the fight against Islam in Iberia. In the codex the Catholic Church slandered Lupa and women of Galicia, calling them ‘witches,’ ‘pagan,’ and forbid their ‘old ways of healing, knowledge, customs.’ It is difficult to tell which is more fantastic, the church miracle tales of James, or the stories of Queen Lupa. Reina Loba examines the relationship between historical record, myth, and institutional narrative. Tamara Pereira and Sayuri. Jeff Crouch music.

Al hacer esta película, quería “resalvajar” a Reina Loba, liberarla de siglos de propaganda. Reina Loba, Reina Loba de Galicia, Reina Lupa, c.45 d.C., gobernó un territorio importante en la Península Ibérica. Los romanos, los visigodos, sus vecinos y la Iglesia querían poseer sus tierras. Al investigar su historia, llegué a creer que Reina Loba resistió al Imperio cristiano. Ella entendió que era un sistema depredador de capitalismo imperial que beneficiaba a la élite con capital. La reina Lupa representó el fin del sistema de trueque y comercio. Un monje francés registró la historia de Reina Loba en el Códice Calixtino para el Papa Calixto en 1138. El libro era una guía de viaje, consejos para los peregrinos que seguían el Camino de Santiago, santo patrón en la lucha contra el Islam en Iberia. En el códice, la Iglesia católica calumnia a Lupa y a las mujeres de Galicia, llamándolas "brujas", "paganas" y prohibiendo sus "viejos métodos de curación, conocimiento y costumbres". Es difícil decir qué es más fantástico, el milagro de la iglesia. cuentos de James, o las historias de la reina Lupa. Reina Loba examina la relación entre registro histórico, mito y narrativa institucional. Tamara Pereira y Sayuri. Música de Jeff Crouch.

16.10.23

...how to start a wicked week...

Strange, Dark &Wicked film series...with a short introduction with Blaine Reininger music and actor Dan Mitchell...very vintage video 2010...but this time of year when the days grow shorter and nights longer we turn inside ourselves, into the darkness, the dark side of our selves....