Showing posts with label film. Show all posts
Showing posts with label film. Show all posts

17.4.24

Last Exit video @JokerJokerTV this Thursday....

 https://www.youtube.com/live/c5g91jZ8xBQ.    6:30 PM EST USA - 11:30H EU

In the anti-war and vacation culture video Last Exit, the bleak, worker’s noir, 1945 Club Paradise film, released the same year Nagasaki/ Hiroshima was bombed and Hitler died, is re-mixed with poetry dialogue to become a romantic vacation advertisement that comments on perception, storytelling and propaganda. From the larger multimedia project Club Paradise: vacation culture, consciousness and capitalism and the selling of holiday 2019. Marketed vacation migration is compared to early nomadic tribes led by their shaman on the tracks of game. Only now the game pursued is a state of mind to produce a worker’s consciousness tolerant of capitalist slavery. With Jeff Crouch music.











ah yes, Raytheon....


It's the last exit

meet me there

we have all night

under the moon

don't go too far

you'll pass the bar

I'll wait

by the gate

don't be late

I hate 

to be alone

on a night like this

senses awake

skin tight sunburn

first day in the sea

I slept under a tree

until three

and swam again

what a memory.

Let's stay up all night

sleep until noon

the sea meets the sky

you can't tell where

the night meets eternity

you can't tell when

we'll be here again

on vacation

with friends 

dancing 

under the stars

swimming in the sun

having fun

feeling groovy

happy in love

moon up above

nothing to do

but sit and share with you

an incredible view

(sit and stare at you)

what a souvenir

our reverie

time free. 

Memories live

someday we'll die

tonight is forever

a dream, 

don't pass it,

at the last exit....

Club Paradise.



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?”

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

...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