Tag Archives: movie

Focal Points

Posted on November 19, 2024 by John Biscello

Deep focus in film, as in the depth of a shot, creating dimensional layers. What about deep focus when one points the camera towards the interior? Not just the surface level of interest or engagement, or the foreground, but a … Continue reading →

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Reel

Posted on November 17, 2024 by John Biscello

It’s like watching a movie. In which you deeply and passionately relate to the main character, who has been wronged. You feel angry, vindictive, vengeful. You want to lash out at the antagonist who has wronged him. Then you pull … Continue reading →

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The Bride at Jean Cocteau

Posted on September 26, 2024 by John Biscello

Our experimental chamber film, The Bride, will have its Santa Fe debut, screening at the historic Jean Cocteau Cinema.

Posted in Artwork, Audio, Cinema, photography, Poetry, Press, Prose, Theater, Uncategorized, Video | Tagged chamber film, Cinema, experimental, gothic, grassroots, haunting, indie film, jean cocteau cinema, movie, moviemaking in new mexico, Poetry, Santa Fe, screenplay | Leave a comment

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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Cell Service

Posted on April 30, 2019 by John Biscello

The reception is terrible up here. Perhaps when electricity is invented things will become clearer?

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Chaplin, Keaton

Posted on March 22, 2018 by John Biscello

Men, who took the fall, to keep the world in stitches– Clowning achievement. (Film still from Limelight, the only film in which Chaplin and Keaton appeared together).