Tag Archives: Experimental film

picture freedom see

Posted on January 1, 2025 by istsfor manity

see (conceptual film script for a new year) a red circlea red circle interlaced with a yellow squarea red circle interlaced with a yellow square and interlaced with a blue triangle interlaced with the yellow square picture freedomsee What I’m … Continue reading →

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by chance operation

Posted on October 16, 2024 by istsfor manity

Critical Focal Acuity (redux) (Fade In) -Series of found moving images as the film racks out of focus -Series of stills: long open highways receding into the horizon line; traffic jammed still; parking lots (these sequences without people in the … Continue reading →

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minute of elation

Posted on January 6, 2024 by istsfor manity

Seafood City, Very Pretty Fade In. The violet sky suffused with a borealis green at the horizon line, and where a dark lake should be I find instead a crumpled piece of black construction paper. But how did they get … Continue reading →

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to receive anointment

Posted on June 19, 2023 by istsfor manity

mats of flower lava Press play above to watch short film mats of flower lava (:29) What I’m Reading: “Maybe what I want when I go out in nature is not to see it, but to be seen by it. … Continue reading →

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belches and squelches

Posted on September 16, 2022 by istsfor manity

First Casket, Secret Casket (Flim Review for a Non-Existent Flim) First Casket, Secret Casket is new film about a benighted romance between a Cuban-American sugar cane harvester and a seldom-acknowledged singer in a punk band. The former is a political … Continue reading →

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for your safety

Posted on September 5, 2022 by istsfor manity

Tendril it Straight She’s gonna’ tendril it straight … but she could tell it straighter, and tendril a strategy that is easy to understand. Her words are usually turgid, garish and lurid—feel the wrath of her bombast. This may not … Continue reading →

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a gauzy moment

Posted on July 16, 2022 by istsfor manity

Monk’s Murk There’s a gauzy moment when the sky seems out of focus—as if viewed through a vaseline-fingered lens at the back of a super 8mm camera gate. That moment. That temporarily muted coruscation. That tenebrous fraction of a second. … Continue reading →

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drip drip drip

Posted on June 30, 2022 by istsfor manity

THE DRIP, DRIP, DRIP IS NOW A TORRENTIAL FLOOD What I’m Reading: “Credit where due: the Supreme Court’s 6–3 ruling in West Virginia v. E.P.A. is the culmination of a five-decade effort to make sure that the federal government won’t … Continue reading →

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cooked to perfection

Posted on May 21, 2022 by istsfor manity

roil (ukiah poem) coronal mass ejectionroil bubble and boilthe earth cooked to perfection What I’m Reading: “Yet recent analysis shows there is now a 48 per cent chance of temporarily exceeding 1.5°C within the next five years.” — New Scientist … Continue reading →

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tied up waiting

Posted on May 17, 2022 by istsfor manity

tuesday thursday plastic shovel in handshots whizz by my headit’s hard to breathe and run this fast i strike a saintly posei’m a pin cushion i’m a pineapplei’m a porcupine undone arrows are an occupational hazardtied up waiting for the … Continue reading →

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