Category Archives: Cinema

Pedestrian in a Far Off Land

Posted on November 23, 2020 by

“Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.” – Federico Fellini It was a rainy day. The weather prophets called for a storm and boy were they … Continue reading →

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Words, Silence, Music

Posted on November 10, 2020 by

“Therefore, speak, speak at any price, say no matter what, since all words have equal value and all say the same thing, all repeat tirelessly the same call for help.” — Samuel Beckett If we are to take Mister Beckett … Continue reading →

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The Last Days of Jack Kerouac, a film-poem

Posted on November 5, 2020 by

1. Setting: A waterfront saloon. The wooden floor thatched in dull golden sawdust plus the acrid scent of piss wafting in from the urinal. 2. Cut to: A broad-shouldered man slumped on his barstool. The camera notices that the legs … Continue reading →

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Devotional

Posted on October 16, 2020 by

Remember me to the ease of light, its pause and passage, we are not long for this earth, which swallows us, and our lovetagged bones, as a matter of natural course and radical recomposition, all the gifts, and hopes unwound … Continue reading →

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Where To?

Posted on October 16, 2020 by

As the steps narrowed toward a terrible totemic infinity she realized that foreboding hailed from a gothic lineage backlit by a fathomless source. #65 from Untitled Film Poems Image by Cindy Sherman

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Testament

Posted on October 15, 2020 by

Kettled by mass and slow-building infinity, solitude begs nothing of stone and receives a woman through to which to flesh out its lone, fretted hymn and testament. #64 from Untitled Film Poems Image by Cindy Sherman

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First and Last Steps

Posted on October 15, 2020 by

It was an option, one that promised an ending— The steps seemed endless. #63 from Untitled Film Poems Image by Cindy Sherman

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Star

Posted on October 15, 2020 by

There was never going to be any show, she knew that. Yet she fed on the light to counteract an unappeasable hunger, to star where the emptiness reamed darkest. #62 from Untitled Film Poems Image by Cindy Sherman

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Oxygen

Posted on October 15, 2020 by

Out here, things were different. The rough patches felt, if not smoother, then at least manageable. This was also a place where she could check her dreams at the door, and not pay them the kind of mind that always … Continue reading →

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Arson

Posted on October 14, 2020 by

All it would take is a single match, and everything inside her that had dried into tinder. Funny, that it would be the house and not her engulfed in flames, but the heat would blister and violently press needles into … Continue reading →

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