Category Archives: Video

Ghost Story

Posted on February 4, 2024 by John Biscello

Posted in Audio, Cinema, photography, Poetry, Prose, Video | Tagged dispossessed, ghost story, Mirror, mirror mirror, poem, Poetry, possession, reflections, spiritspeak, Spoken Word | Leave a comment

Titanic

Posted on January 29, 2024 by John Biscello

A voyage into the time-haunted unknown, a love story casting two alone as wreckmates aboard a sinking ship in a salacious sea of bop consciousness.

Posted in Audio, Poetry, Prose, Video | Tagged consciousness, love story, novel in progress, ocean, odyssey, Poetry, Prose, sea, vision quest, voyage | Leave a comment

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.

Posted in Artwork, Audio, Cinema, photography, Poetry, Prose, Video | Tagged empty spaces, japan, kyoto, niigata, poems, Poetry, Spoken Word, tokyo, travelogue, vanishing points | Leave a comment

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.

Posted in Artwork, Audio, Cinema, photography, Poetry, Prose, Video | Tagged cemetery, japan, kyoto, montage, niigata, photography, poem, Poetry, Ryokan, sado island, shrine, Spoken Word, tokyo, Video | Leave a comment

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).

Posted in Artwork, Audio, Cinema, photography, Poetry, Prose, Video | Tagged after hours, haiku, in the dark, japan, kyoto, nightwatch, niigata, nocturnes, photography, Poetry, Prose, Spoken Word, street scenes, tokyo | Leave a comment

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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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 →

Posted in Audio, Books, Cinema, photography, Poetry, Press, Prose, Publications, Theater, Uncategorized, Video | Tagged Amazon, bio, Drama, film, novels, plays, Publications, soundcloud, stories, storytelling, Theater, youth theater | Leave a comment

The Bride

Posted on January 17, 2023 by John Biscello

A series of experimental stills from our short film, THE BRIDE, which we plan to shoot in February. I wrote the script to The Bride, based on a story concept by Jaylan Salman, which was inspired by her poem, “You … Continue reading →

Posted in Artwork, Cinema, photography, Poetry, Prose, Publications, Video | Tagged Cinema, experimental, indie film, knife, light and shadow, Poetry, scissors, short film, surreal, the bride, veils | Leave a comment

To the Lighthouse

Posted on May 30, 2022 by John Biscello

Here it is, finally. A séance for the living, real-time cinema for possessed bones and sad visionless ghosts, who are on the cusp of claiming their spacious reams of empty, and time-locked vagrancy. The door behind the door has never … Continue reading →

Posted in Audio, photography, Poetry, Video | Tagged lighthouse, mystics, new day dawning, poem, Poetry, romanticism, Spoken Word, visionaries | Leave a comment

Homage to John Fante

Posted on April 5, 2022 by John Biscello

Posted in Books, Poetry, Prose, Publications, Video | Tagged arturo bandini, ask the dust, italian-american writers, john fante, literature, los angeles, Spoken Word | Leave a comment