flicker film fugue

i sat through a flicker film festival
paul sharits
tony conrad
a couple kubelka’s

fences on color
or was it
feces in dolor?

crowds snakes choral singers
did I see helen dance the frug?
(look it up on youtube!)
in a flicker film?

oy!

it was all too much too fast
too fractured
to take in

amateur potters
carvers of sophisticated wooden celluloid
six-cornered exasperation dreams explicit
full of vibrant constellations of synecdoche
succotash filled with ethnic + linguistic diversity

then the inexhaustible error of human creativity
in miniature and endlessly hilarious
in three dimensional silver halide crystals

it caused a wave of seizures throughout
the screening room pilfered by rapid fire

images repeating + repeating
repeating

What I’m Reading:

4 Billion
The number of people — about 49% of the global population — who experienced at least 30 additional days of extreme heat between May 2024 and May 2025 because of climate change.

— Climate Change and the Escalation of Global Extreme Heat Report