Category Archives: Cinema

In the Company of Solitude, Vol. 4

Posted on January 22, 2024 by John Biscello

The fourth and final volume is dedicated to vanishing points, prevailing absences and Zen-empty ephemera.

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In the Company of Solitude, Vol. 3

Posted on January 18, 2024 by John Biscello

This volume features shrines and cemeteries, and a visit to Ryokan’s hut.

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In the Company of Solitude, Vol. II

Posted on January 9, 2024 by John Biscello

This volume comprises nocturnes and night scenes from Japan (Niigata, Tokyo and Kyoto).

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In the Company of Solitude, Vol. I

Posted on January 8, 2024 by John Biscello

During the summer of 2023, I had the privilege and joy of spending six weeks in Japan, based in Niigata, with short trips to Tokyo, Kyoto and Sado Island. I enjoyed the flaneur’s giddy and childlike luxury of wandering streets … Continue reading →

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Trip Hop

Posted on January 1, 2024 by John Biscello

Issue 2 of Dilate magazine has dropped, popped and rolled. An elixir of stimulating brew initiating the new-new. My piece “Trip Hop” is in the mindfizzy mix.

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Updated Bio

Posted on August 17, 2023 by John Biscello

Hailing from Brooklyn, NY, author, poet, playwright, perfomer and screenwriter, John Biscello, is the author of four novels–Broken Land, Raking the Dust, Nocturne Variations, No Man’s Brooklyn–two volumes of poetry–Arclight, Moonglow on Mercy Street–a collection of stories, Freeze Tag–and an … Continue reading →

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Noir

Posted on August 12, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Screen black. The sound of waves lapping against the shore. Fade in to three police officers and an unshaved man gathered around the empty boat carried in by the sea. The poem ends, the movie … Continue reading →

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Bluegrass

Posted on May 13, 2023 by John Biscello

Music plays a significant role in both the construction and tone of None So Distant, with one of the sections, titled Jukebox, functioning as a mythical and conceptual music catalog. Below is one of the “songs” from Jukebox. BLUEGRASSOffbeat lonesome … Continue reading →

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Cinematic Matrimony

Posted on February 23, 2023 by John Biscello

THE BRIDE In the shadowy, obscure and mostly silent world world of The Bride, a woman, garbed in a wedding dress and veil, directly engages the mirror and “seeing eye” of the camera, as she confronts both codified ritual and internal pressures–rooted … Continue reading →

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The Bride

Posted on February 16, 2023 by John Biscello

Behind-the-scenes sneak-peek at our short film THE BRIDE, in this week’s edition of Tempo.

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