Tag Archives: japan

Tokyo Lift-Off Film Fest

Posted on May 5, 2025 by John Biscello

The Tokyo Lift-Off Film Festival is now live on Vimeo, and will run through June 1st. If you are interested in checking out our film The Bride (along with the other indie shorts that are being screened), here is the … Continue reading →

Posted in Artwork, Audio, Cinema, photography, Poetry, Press, Prose, Theater, Uncategorized, Video | Tagged experimental, film, gothic, indiecinema, japan, liftoffglobalnetwork, screening, short, speculative, tokyofilmfestival, tokyoliftoff | Leave a comment

Portrait

Posted on February 28, 2024 by John Biscello

In the hospitable equation of a bicycle, lighted doors and people we cannot see, a hypnogogic nocturne forms of its own accord, begetting incalculable solitude and lore to the trespasses of dreaming.

Posted in Poetry | Tagged bicycle, dreaming, house, japan, lore, poem, Poetry, portrait, street scene, trespasses | Leave a comment

Penumbra

Posted on February 28, 2024 by John Biscello

We practice intimacy in scales, from a near warmed distance— a concentrated swath of light, calling us forth, entreats our internal orphan to find fugitive solace in the softly respiring aura of solitude.

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Night Beat

Posted on February 28, 2024 by John Biscello

It is in these moments when the pumpkin orange glow of the lanterns softens the streets and the bicycles lined up in rows compose portraits of ordered symmetry, that the night turns in on itself, and with it goes I, … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry | Tagged after dark, blues, ephemera, ghosts, japan, niigata, poem, Poetry, streetlamps, streets | Leave a comment

Time, Travel

Posted on February 7, 2024 by John Biscello

The boy sat on the train that would take him to the station where he would catch the train that would take him to the airport where he would be lifted away from everything he had been dreaming in real-time. … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Prose | Tagged boy, japan, journey, poem, Prose, real time, sketch, time, train, travel, wandering | Leave a comment

Gloaming

Posted on February 7, 2024 by John Biscello

At twilight, the softly paling into summer plum sky, sliver of moon suspended like a bone-white boomerang in the distance, narrow street courting its void with dignity— What kind of dream is this, which reminds you there is nothing to … Continue reading →

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Jizo and the Lost Children

Posted on February 5, 2024 by John Biscello

They were everywhere in the woods. Clustered in hidden batches, concealed, unseen or barely peeking out from foliage or grass, the verdant estate of jizos, some whose faces had been worn away by the elements, others with shadows and hints … Continue reading →