Category Archives: Cinema

Still of the Night

Posted on June 25, 2019 by John Biscello

She thought about it at least once every night. What it would be like if he wasn’t there, if she, with delicate blankness befitting a housewife, mixed his cocktail in a new way, a different way, just once, then watched … Continue reading →

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Cindy and Cindy

Posted on June 25, 2019 by John Biscello

Rapt fascination– when the enigmatic meets the readily apparent in an effort to fashion and sustain identity from the lore of diminishing returns.   (Photo by Cindy Sherman)

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Watchful

Posted on June 25, 2019 by John Biscello

Sometimes it goes without saying– a woman’s loss teased into vertical symmetry as memory assails from a lighted distance.   (Photo by Cindy Sherman)

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What Did I Miss?

Posted on June 24, 2019 by John Biscello

Fall in the city. A building offers the glyphic runes of a tectonic language in relief that goes unnoticed by the woman who has just seen her lover listening to another woman closely.   (Photo by Cindy Sherman)

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Lighting Scheme

Posted on June 24, 2019 by John Biscello

Illuminated, but with razors, the shadow found a face to give its cinematic debut a twist on types fitted to escape plans in small, forgotten rooms.   (Photo by Cindy Sherman)

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Pilgrimage

Posted on May 31, 2019 by John Biscello

Sometimes you’ve got to walk alone through the desert to know your true place among the company of stars.

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Dominion

Posted on May 30, 2019 by John Biscello

Living becomes a habit, a surging one that’s hard to break. But death, its sworn mate with the notorious reputation, always lurks beneath, a husking catalyst bent on dreamless repose, and the pooling of changes to seed the furtherance of … Continue reading →

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Cuckoo

Posted on May 27, 2019 by John Biscello

  Surreal torch song meets Laurel and Hardy in the Twilight Zone in this short film set in a one-room universe. Cuckoo-for-Cinema fundraising campaign coming soon, as we begin the intial stages in our inspired flight into the wild celluloid … Continue reading →

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Cuckoo for Cinema

Posted on May 13, 2019 by John Biscello

As a lifelong fan and lover of cinema, with movies of all kinds being a nourishing staple in my diet, I am excited to announce that I am going to be directing a short film I wrote, titled: Ballad of … Continue reading →

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