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Category Archives: Press
The Factory
Review of Hiroko Oyamada’s award-winning debut novel, The Factory. The year was 1936, when an indefatigable tramp served as a working-class Virgil in guiding audiences through the hellscape of big business industry and assembly line madness. The tramp, of course, … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Press, Prose, Publications, Uncategorized
Tagged book review, contemporary Japan, fable, John Biscello, new directions publishing, novel, The Factory
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Surrealism in Paris
Review of Sue Roe’s In Montparnasse: The Emergence of Surrealism in Paris, from Duchamp to Dali A fish rides a bicycle into the Seine. The fish begins to drown and then remembers that it is a fish and starts to … Continue reading
Posted in Artwork, Books, Press, Prose, Publications, Uncategorized
Tagged art life, John Biscello, montparnasse, paris, Prose, Review, riot material, Surrealism, the left bank
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Gusty Winds May Exist
Gusty Winds May Exist. This was the sign I saw on the highway when driving back from Albuquerque. Gusty Winds May Exist. Which, speculatively insinuates, they may also not exist. A climate conundrum and barometric riddle to challenge everything you thought you knew about … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema, photography, Poetry, Press, Prose, Publications, Uncategorized
Tagged ballad of the cuckoos, cindy sherman, indie cinema, John Biscello, photography, Poetry, riot material, wind-surfing
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New York, I Love You
Recent series of city-haunted photos by street photographer, Anthony Distefano.
Posted in Artwork, photography, Poetry, Press, Uncategorized
Tagged anthony distefano, John Biscello, New York, street photography, the beat goes on, the city, urban moodscaping
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Devils in Daylight
Review of Junichiro Tanizaki’s Devils in Daylight appearing in Riot Material. “I would call back at least for literature this world of shadows we are losing. In the mansion called literature I would have the eaves deep and the walls dark, … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Press, Prose, Publications, Uncategorized
Tagged book, japan, John Biscello, junichiro tanizaki, novel, Review, riot material, voyeurism
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Raising Cuckoo Awareness
Ballad of the Cuckoos is a short film I wrote, which I will be directing. Please visit our page and subscribe to our email list and follow the evolution of our film. Or, if you are into what it is we … Continue reading
Posted in Artwork, Cinema, Press, Prose, Uncategorized
Tagged ballad of the cuckoos, Cinema, cuckoo cinema, indie film, John Biscello, New Mexico, Surrealism
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Ballad of the Cuckoos
Our little-cuckoo-that-could is beginning to stir its wings. The pre-launch page for our Indiegogo campaign, which will launch in September, is now live. Please visit the page and subscribe to our email list (it’s free and easy) and follow the … Continue reading
Still Life w/ Cuckoos
Meet Marilyn and James. Film stills from Ballad of the Cuckoos. Indiegogo campaign launching soon. Stay tuned.
Posted in Artwork, Cinema, Press, Prose, Uncategorized
Tagged ballad of the cuckoos, campaigning for cuckoos, cinemagical, existential torch song, film, New Mexico, Surrealism
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Cuckoo
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
A Girl Goes Into the Forest
Review of Pel Alford Pursell’s A Girl Goes Into the Forest. In the dream I was sitting with my mother in a restaurant lobby, waiting to be seated for dinner. The hostess came over, asked me my name, which I … Continue reading
