Tag Archives: Experimental film

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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the hot edge

Posted on May 12, 2022 by istsfor manity

sadness and fury sadness and furyand also, remarkably, hopebut it fadesoh it fadesin the hazeat the hot edgeof 1000 ppm20 feet of water comingbest learn to swimbest learn to rowbest to prepyr rocketto nowheresnow What I’m listening to: “So this … Continue reading →

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under the influence

Posted on May 6, 2022 by istsfor manity

Exophony Under the influence of another tongueUnder the influence of a glass in shardsUnder the influence of a perpetual pandemicUnder the influence of a second boosterUnder the influence of crass appealUnder the influence of social regressionUnder the influence of climate … Continue reading →

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please move on

Posted on May 4, 2022 by istsfor manity

Press play button above to watch my short film Hair Shirt (:40) What I’m Reading: “Let the fog’s callsgo to voicemail. Tell the fogto eat shit, burn the fog’s letters.” — Ruth Madievsky / “Fog”

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fall in reverse

Posted on April 20, 2022 by istsfor manity

derecho haiku derecho blows inlike a spastic jumping beanleaves fall in reverse What I’m Reading: “I write, that’s for sure.Death, from the other side,is levitating.” — Melissa Sauma / “Reminiscence”

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