Transfer, the short film I co-wrote with filmmaker Chris Spencer-Lowe (with excellent contribution from the film’s principal actor, Ben Stone), will be screening tomorrow, Saturday Oct. 25th, at the Charlottetown Island Media Arts Festival.
Transfer is appearing at the Charlottetown Island Media Arts Festival
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Transfer appearing in the FNC
25 Sep 2014 Leave a comment
in Films Tags: festival du nouveau cinema, film festival, films, fnc, magic realism, montreal, surreal films
Transfer, the short film I co-wrote with filmmaker Chris Spencer-Lowe (with excellent contribution from the film’s principal actor, Ben Stone), will be appearing this October in the Festival du Nouveau Cinema in Montreal. The film is screening on the 9th and 17th of October.
Interview with Chris Spencer-Lowe in the Chronicle Herald on Transfer
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Interview with Chris Spencer-Lowe in the Chronicle Herald on Transfer, after its Atlantic Film Festival win:
Transfer wins Best Short Film prize at the 34th Atlantic Film Festival
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Transfer, the film I co-wrote with filmmaker Chris Spencer-Lowe, has won the best short film prize at the 34th Atlantic Film Festival!
Interview with Chris Spencer-Lowe on CTV
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In this CTV interview with filmmaker Chris Spencer-Lowe, he discusses the film Transfer, the film I co-wrote with him that will be screened on Sept 15th as part of the Atlantic Film Festival (6:30pm, Parklane, Halifax).
http://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=437035&binId=1.1145745&playlistPageNum=1
Servitor released in Cadimus Protocol
29 Aug 2014 Leave a comment
in Publication News Tags: play, rave review, science fiction, short story
My science fiction short story, Servitor, has just been released as part of Doppler Effect’s Cadimus Protocol.
To read it and other stories (by Michael McPhee, Annie Valentina, Chris Benjamin, and Kristin Slaney),click on the link: http://cadimusprotocol.com/fiction/
If you are in Halifax and would like to see Doppler Effect’s play Tribe of One, also based in the Cadimus Protocol universe, you can see showing times at their Facebook page for the play: https://www.facebook.com/events/1466640883594051/1476290639295742/?notif_t=plan_mall_activity
The play received a first rave review in The Coast for its opening night yesterday: http://www.thecoast.ca/TheScene/archives/2014/08/29/fringe-binge-day-one
Transfer to appear in the 34th Atlantic Film Festival
06 Aug 2014 Leave a comment
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Transfer, the film I co-wrote with filmmaker Chris Spencer-Lowe, will be appearing this September in the 34th Atlantic Film Festival, within ATLANTIC SHORTS 6
Monday, September 15, 6:30pm:
“Servitor” Appearing in the Doppler Effect’s Cadimus Protocol
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My short story “Servitor” will be appearing in the Doppler Effect production company’s mufti-media project the Cadimus Protocol, which is slated for launch in the fall of 2014.
Bus Yoga 1
03 Mar 2014 Leave a comment
in Phenomenology and Zen Tags: phenomenology, philosophy, yoga, Zen
Seated on the bus.
This cruising assemblage of rubber, metal, and wires, holding humans in its belly as it rolls through space, I in turn hold as ‘bus’; it obediently folds its motion, its taking of us from our As to our Bs, transparently inside my grasp of it as ‘bus’. For a moment I see the secret machinery translating the bus’s metal and gears, its controlled explosion of gas and its careful flesh and blood piloting through streets, into the electric linguistic bubble of Bus, neatly resonating within itself all the other sub-bubbles it holds (wheels, gears, line-ups, starting and stopping, get up for the elderly and infirmed, watch for your stop) outside of time, as a neon glow in cognitive space, a phantom of electric attention that could vanish with a firm yank of the cord from the outlet.
In the electric bus bubble, scenery collapses into ‘scenery’, seats into ‘seats’, passengers into ‘passengers’, all filed away within everyone’s private bus. His bus isn’t mine, but he and I include each other, in a hidden pact, on each other’s busses.
Adhering without touching, because inhabiting the very marrow, I persist as a ghost in these machines within machines, wheels within wheels. The bus driver is his own island of turning precision, tracing us through mapped time schedules onto real concrete streets, carrying us to phantom goals within solid walls. And he is my avatar up ahead, manipulating through my remote control, the arcane gears of the electric bus bubble engine, transmogrifying scenery, collapsing space between my A and B.
Bus Yoga 2
03 Mar 2014 Leave a comment
in Phenomenology and Zen Tags: phenomenology, philosophy, yoga, Zen
On the bus I have somewhere to go.
We all have somewhere to go, and together on the bus we are on the way, getting there. Also, we are prone to let our eyes fall half or all the way closed, and to drift our heads over to gaze out the window at passing sights, taking those sights in with interested, attracted, or repulsed recognition, or gratefully letting them blur together into the soft trance of in between, of not there yet. We can tune in, but are just as prone to tune out, to let the bus take us.
But isn’t there often a melancholy to it, a hidden sadness? I’m here because I have to be here, have to get to the B from that A, where I would perhaps rather have stayed, or maybe even I’m fleeing an A to arrive at an unsatisfactory B. Perhaps I hear this blurring complexity whispering along the streets, singing its woes into my ears, slipping in between the lines of my I-Pod songs.
I can resist; I can set up counter thoughts, counter arguments, screw up my courage, repaint the grid of my fondest maybe even quite attainable hopes, to crowd out this dull oppressive whispering, which always obeys the traffic signals, respects the boundaries of the infrastructure, has one eye on the watch and the other on the bus schedule, the work schedule, on the unspoken emotional agendas that feel too brittle and fragile and volatile to challenge—they might break, might hit me, might crumble into tears, might ostracize me forever.
But there’s always the drifting trance of the in between. I can just let it take me, let the whispering become an alien rambling monologue, let it merge with the growl of the bus engine, with the traffic sounds, the static chatter. Where am I now?
A and B have melted together, the themes of going from here to there, of ‘he said’ and ‘she said’, of ravenous striving commerce and aching dreams of protesting art, have all merged into a theme-less realm of heavy eyes, through which surreal scenery sends its waves, that break against the subdued chaos of mumbling detached thoughts, swirling together with tendrils of sound, all of it washing through ‘me’… But this is another me, a retreating me, with the dial turned away from jagged rocks of the A-to-B station, finding a welcome undemanding static, a nonthematic purgatory which may not be heaven but at least it’s unhinged from the endless themes, the storylines of traffic lights, NO STOPPING zones, and four-way intersections where you MUST decide which way to go, who goes first, and who has the coolest car.
Can I see this though, bring it clearly in focus, and thereby become the driver sometimes instead of always remain the passenger? Can I take it further, travel with it off the map, pave new roads inside the in between of riding the A-to-B bus?
Perhaps this unconscious escape, this drifting retreat, can become tinted with a new curious attention, a sneaky, gleefully conspiring light.
I could slip into this nonthematic in between on purpose. And also I needn’t be bummed by the murky thematic tangles of A and B; I can cast a neon light on them from within the security, the secret refuge of my drifting middle ground stronghold, my sanctum sanctorum, where I can move back and forth at will: I can conspire to see in between the lines, and just let them drift by as curious creatures, as passing blurring scenery I needn’t ‘recognize’; and also I can reach out with intelligence culled from my new nonthematic spy network, and grab the thematic steering wheel, change the schedule, redraw the maps.