4.2.24
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/3WWjWUUHui8Twitch: 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
...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...
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.
22.10.23
21.10.23
...your wicked film today...El Dorado 2012...
El Dorado was the new world king who dusted himself with gold. Adventurers, conquistadors, con men, kings, and pirates hunted him, killed him, and took his lands and gold. Some things never change?
Adapted news story of a woman who murdered her partner, took his car and stolen money and escaped. From Badlands series 2012.
Blaine Reininger track Attribue a Bernie H. from Music For Dance. Thieves, Kristina Barvels, Brad Gigliotti.
19.10.23
16.10.23
...how to start a wicked week...
15.10.23
Line Paintings 3 new....
https://ceceliachapman.com/line-painting