The documentary, ‘Bukowski: Born into This’ rehashes stories of the inimitable misanthrope, poet, and author Charles Bukowski. Post features the poem, ‘Dinosauria, we.’
Performance
Performance arts, music, film, drama and literature, creative expressions presented on the world stage seeking earth balance, harmony, dissonance, abstraction and concept.
Jack Eidt’s ‘The Blue Basement’ on Luna Review
An excerpt of Jack Eidt’s recent novel ‘Nowhere Beckons’ was published in the Luna Review. Called ‘The Blue Basement’, it narrates the protagonist T.’s visionary descent into the urban underworld, where ideas, light, and color blend, and surviving on the journey to the end of the night is everything.
Arnold Schoenberg’s Sound, Ecstatic, Innovative, Aware of Catastrophes
A concert featuring the works of revolutionary Jewish composer Arnold Schoenberg in his exiled home Los Angeles showcased his challenging and revolutionary oeuvre, channeled through classical forms such as fugues, sonatas, and waltzes.
Visual Poems, Silent Dances of the Maquette Theatre
Matthew Anthony Stokes solo show Camouflage opened in Los Angeles, which illustrates his unique multi-disciplinary background in performance, corporeal dramaturgy, dance, sculpture, assemblage, film, photography, and poetry. Multiple videos from the experimental MAQUETTE Theatre, which he co-founded, create a visionary alternative universe replete with silent dances and visual poems that “unveil” ephemeral sculpture, including costumes, sets and masks.
‘Solaris’ – Tarkovsky’s Vision Beyond an Urban Future
A startling vision of the future, somewhere in the cosmos on a planet yet unknown, Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris investigates apparitions of the irradiated mind in a nostalgic view of humanity looking into it’s own mirror.
Transformations: Stephen Scott’s Bowed Grand Piano, Plucked
Celestial, dark atmospheric, a legendary Odyssey down a road to nowhere, in search of Minerva, the Roman Goddess of Wisdom and Poetry, Stephen Scott’s bowed grand piano soars into the imagination, and transforms in the spirit of Ovid’s ‘Metamorphoses’.
Political Haiku: The Revolution Will Not Be Roboticized
Mark Morris lays down some poetic effulgence in the budding genre of political haiku, or as he endearingly calls it: Hacku. Let it flow in the Era of the Orange One.