Jeff sent me via regular postal mail marked and altered material, old book pages, asemic writing, etc.... I staged and photographed scenarios with found objects on my end. We called it Discreet Entries because that is the early name for diary or journal entries... and posted them one day a month at instagram....days 1-10 here...
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
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.
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...
Al hacer esta pelÃcula, querÃa “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 PenÃnsula Ibérica. Los romanos, los visigodos, sus vecinos y la Iglesia querÃan 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 guÃa de viaje, consejos para los peregrinos que seguÃan 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 difÃcil 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.
We have a problem in Northern California Coast...rain soaked cliffs fall into the sea taking houses, roads, chunks of golf courses, condominiums, and sometimes burying sunbathing beach goers dying beneath even small cliffs. I have run down the beach to avoid 60 foot cliffs falling into the sea forming new islands offshore... Danger Rocks with music by Jeff Crouch and Steve Johnson cell phone video from his dawn patrol.
Susanne Hafenscher, Matthias Boss, Marcello Magliocchi track Music for a Quiet Night. Kristina Barvels, investigator. Ignacio Palma, brother. Alexa Oliva, sister. Anthony, bodyguard. Cecelia Chapman 2013.
3 places to watch....
JJtv: https://jokerjokertv.com/WATCH/
YT: https://www.youtube.com/live/79vwByz0qoM
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/jokerjokertv
