Created for 2017 FilmPoem and National Poetry Society Screening
Soundtrack License: Altus – Nearly Forgotten altusmusic.bandcamp.com/track/nearly-forgotten
Author Archives: Marshmallow Press Productions
Finding the Sacred in the Persistance of Life
All releases from The Elderbranch Campaign can be purchased directly from the band via their official BandCamp site: theelderbranchcampaign.bandcamp.com/
Crepuscle With Nellie (Take Six)
Created for the Poetry Society featured at the Filmpoem Festival in Antwerp Belgium, June 14, 2014. Filmpoem Festival is curated by Alastair Cook in partnership with the British Poetry Society and the Felix Poetry Film Festival.
Written and Read by Ken Taylor
Music: a rotten fairytale composed by Mustafank: soundcloud.com/mustafank/a-rotten-fairytale
the BEAUTY STRIP
The EARL SESSIONS (full movie)
Found Footage Film about about a superhero struggling with persona.
Headphones recommended. Soundtrack by artists: David Eng, Bp Olar, Jacob Shelton, Craig Murray, Phil Andrews, Wounds (Winter Ambient Works) and the late Mr. Barry Titus. Starring Earl Woodruff as himself. Featuring the voice of actress Shannon Lark.
The EARL SESSIONS premiered in May of 2011, screening on six screens as part of the Dis-Place This Collection at the world renown Glue Factory Gallery in Glasgow, Scotland. Also the Earl Sessions was featured at the Museum Of Contemporary Art Buenos Aires with a live scored interpretation by sound artist Zigo Rayonpineal. Award: Most innovative film Pollygrind Underground Film Festival 2011.
the Forgotten Film Gallery 2013
The Forgotten Film Gallery was a curated blog documentary and video art installation project which showcased a collection of films from various video and sound artists dealing with interpretation of the forgotten and the indefinite time period during and after the present. The Forgotten Film Gallery also attempted to link the past, present and future using unique areas of the Mojave desert region and the World Wide Web as it’s gallery installation space.
The goal for the Forgotten Film Gallery was to unite the new with the old. Link the past to the future using the remoteness of the desert as the gallery space and the world wide web as a platform to share non commercial video-films.
the Dead Bird Story 2013
Words and Voice by J de Salvo: thebicyclereview.net/
Written on the occasion of the death of William S. Burroughs.
the Forgotten Film Gallery 2013 (part 1)
Shared more films with the lonely desert and the critters again. This time was an old jail in Tecopa and part of an abandoned resort facing the Soda Mountains. At one point two curious bats joined us on the floor of the old building. Robert Fulton, manager of California Sate University Desert Studies Center welcomed us including myself, family, Fred L’Epee and our films as the Desert Research Center’s guests. Robert, also gave a candid interview concerning some of the environmental challenges facing the Soda Mountains and the Mojave.
Marty’s House – Documentary
Finally finished Marty House
Music Soundtrack by: Lowell Levene-Sims on BandCamp:
http://lowelllevene-sims.bandcamp.com/
Also featuring Music by Occurrences in the Rain:
http://occurrencesinrain.bandcamp.com/album/remembrance-music
As Velocity Increased Time Slowed
the FORGOTTEN FILM GALLERY 2012 highlights
tune is called: Shards of Colour
music by Barbara De Dominicis
Bright Source a large for profit energy corporation plans to erect two solar towers at Hidden Hills. Not sure what will become of the Hidden Cathedral or Queho’s grave.
During the 70’s Hidden Hills Ranch near Pahrump, Nevada was an area that attracted over a thousand visitors a month. Hidden Hills Ranch was a non denominational, spiritual place created out of the existing rocks by Roland Wiley. Roland was a prominent attorney who also helped shape Las Vegas. We came back a few weeks ago. Thinking maybe we can show some of the films here. Finding more to the story about Hidden Hills Ranch and the surrounding area.
Music by Zigo Rayopineal
the demand is the electronics must work together with the borrowed 2000 watt Honda gas generator. Power is crucial to the Forgotten Film Gallery. No power in the lonely desert or is there? Wish we could plug the TV’s into to the sun. Maybe a small catheter plugged to one of the rays would work. lol. For now a tight collar of gas with hopefully a long enough leash must hide behind a hill or my selfish dream will not work. Stay tuned.
Music by Zigo Rayonpineal tune is called: quumTlismns
Was the perfect time to take a drive from Vegas and share films with the lonely desert. Upon arrival to the gallery we learned serendipity can change.
After learning our intended gallery had been burned down and my camera mic had other plans for sound, the decision was still to watch these films. A video montage honoring the following works inside the last remaining dwelling with a roof at Hidden Hills:
Films included in this segment:
Days Gone Not Forgotten by Jesse Richards
Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo by Istvan Horkay
R.O.O.T.S. by Pinina Podesta
Paradox of the Absurd by Maria Niro
Factory For Sale by Frederic Chagnard and Agnès Hardy
Unconcerned But Not Indifferent by Fred L’Epée and Dimitra Pouliopoulou
After our journey as astronauts to the forgotten planet. We learned perceptions have power. Television at the cathedral on a desert planet… surreal and beautiful experience for us. The crickets even played a live concerto with our TV’s! lol. Some highlights and sounds from the show.
Included in this segment:
Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo by Istvan Horkay
“my favorite color was blue” by H.D. Lang
Homo Sapiens 1 by Rouzbeh Rashidi
Spotter by Chris Marsh
Remembering Belle Isle by David Sanchez Burr
A 60 Seconds Study for ΙΚΑΡΟΣ by Roland Quelven
Concerto by the Crickets
the EARL SESSIONS Plays With Live Music Score
Cinema ARCHIVE
Gun + Elk 2011
Featured: Festival International Video Arte Magmart
Soundtrack: Zigo Rayonpineal
Flesh and Higher Mathematics 2011
Featured: Mindscapes Film Event, October, 2011 Las Vegas NV.
Soundtrack: Lowell Levene Sims
Ground 2011
Featured: Dimensions Film Event Artist Televisions Access San Francisco August 2011
Soundtrack: Pierrepoint’s Epitaph by Dirk Drieson
Hanging Stanes 2010
A film adaptation of the poem: The Hanging Stanes by Sam Meekings for the McEwan Hall Showcase in Edinburgh. Filmed 2009 in Tecopa, CA.
Narration: Alastair Cook
Soundtrack: Jacob Shelton
Hippodrome Mime 2009
Pollygrind Film Award Best Music Video 2010
Soundtrack: David Eng
Mindscapes Film Event 2011
JMDF is an agent of Porcelain Bomb Las Vegas
Source: http://www.artsvegas.com/2011/11/mindscapes-video-art-at-theatre7/
Source: http://www.porcelainbomb.com/
Don’t worry if you missed Mindscapes the other weekend at Theater7. You can catch it in February when the show arrives in San Francisco. Or, thanks to the marvels of modern technology, you can watch a few of these cutting edge videos in the comfort of your own home right now. According to local event organizers and filmmakers Ginnetta Correli and Cassandra Sechler, this collection represents “a critical movement happening under the belly of mainstream culture.” They could be right. Video art installations are on the rise, a delightful offspring of the budding orgiastic romance between dozens of artistic disciplines.