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(A HUMAN) BEING – a short piece
other possible title
UN-APPROACHING DEATH
(take out the big word though)
cf.more at bottom below
“Program Notes” – As if ALERTS would work…
Winner of Best Experimental Film at St. Louis Filmmakers Festival
AND PLAYED AT
the 2022 St. Louis International Film Festival
AND
the 2023 Defy Film Festival in Nashville, TN
too many words for such a short piece, but then it is (about) nothing
14 years of gestation & very close to failure (as it should be)
While we try to stand on “icebergs of knowledge” (with a very large mass of unknown), any film either stands by itself or does not…
As we have been told before:“All the rest is commentary.”
My teacher Charlotte Joko Beck used to say that one spends the first part of life accumulating, and that the second part is spent getting rid of things.
In 2008 after being unable to move and to communicate while in an ICU for three weeks… when I finally was home – after having scared myself in the mirror by looking like a camp survivor, jawbone and knees protruding & stomach skin hanging – as in some kind of slow motion, all normal activity seemed like actual choices & getting that essential mechani
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"The Up your sleeve to Life? A Rectify to Die? ....Nonsense!" A talk lecture discussion reconcile with Professor Dennis Cooley. Sep 24, 2014
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(A HUMAN) BEING – a short piece
Winner of “Best Experimental Film” 2022 St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase
Played
At the 2022 St. Louis International Film Festival
too many words for such a short piece, but then it is (about) nothing
14 years of gestation & very close to failure (as it should be)
Reality is a cliché… — Wallace Stevens
While we try to stand on “icebergs of knowledge” (with a very large mass of unknown), any film either stands by itself or does not…
As we have been told before:“All the rest is commentary.”
My teacher Charlotte Joko Beck used to say that one spends the first part of life accumulating, and that the second part is spent getting rid of things.
In 2008 after being unable to move and to communicate while in an ICU for three weeks… when I finally was home – after having scared myself in the mirror by looking like a camp survivor, jawbone and knees protruding & stomach skin hanging – as in some kind of slow motion, all normal activity seemed like actual choices & getting that essential mechanism going again looked like getting hooked into automated addictions (eating, drinking, watching my surroundings…).
Nothing was evident anymore, not even regular