Full House at the MAC

I'm grateful for the turnout this past Wednesday night at McKinney Avenue Contemporary - - standing room only! A fun and thoughtful night of movies, food, and conversation. This was the line-up: THE MOCK DESTRUCTION OF THE WORLD; DIOGENES; OTHER WOUNDS; WHEN THE WORLD WAS GREEN; A WELL-PROVED HELPMATE.

Up next: THE MOCK DESTRUCTION OF THE WORLD  and A WELL-PROVED HELPMATE go to Snake Alley Festival of Film in just a couple of weeks. This will be my first time at the Snake Alley Festival,  which is in Burlington, Iowa. Snake Alley has terrific buzz and I am looking forward to getting there.

For more about the films mentioned, please visit the Tropic Pictures site.

More Festival Updates

2014 is a terrific year for Tropic Pictures! Both A WELL-PROVED HELPMATE and THE MOCK DESTRUCTION OF THE WORLD are headed to Snake Alley Festival of Film in June.

Earlier this year, HELPMATE showed at Flathead Lake International Cinemafest. OTHER WOUNDS played at Magikal Charm Festival and at Wildcatters Exchange.

As for writing, the HELPMATE script was accepted at Richmond International Film Festival and the script titled MAPPING PARADISE was accepted at Bare Bones International Film and Music Festival.

Nest Wednesday, May 21, Tropic Pictures is showing five short films at The McKinney Avenue Contemporary in Dallas.

I'm grateful to each of these festivals and venues, and I look forward to making progress on new projects this Summer.

For more about the films I mentioned. Please visit www.TropicPictures.com

At The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, May 21, 7PM

I am excited about the upcoming screening of short films at The MAC in Dallas.  I'll be showing two new films, A WELL-PROVED HELPMATE and THE MOCK DESTRUCTION OF THE WORLD,  plus earlier works: OTHER WOUNDS; WHEN THE WORLD WAS GREEN; and DIOGENES. Please visit www.TropicPictures.com for plot details and festival information. Run time is about an hour. Event is free. Come for delicious snacks at 6:30 PM. Screening starts at 7PM.

The McKinney Avenue Contemporary is located at 3120 McKinney Ave. Dallas, TX 75204.

Open Archive

My review of "Open Archive," an exhibition devoted to five performance artists is the featured article at Glasstire.

The Voice's Folds

Glasstire has published my review of The Voice's Folds, a program of experimental films. Here is an excerpt:

The Voice’s Folds, a program of eight experimental short films by Morehshin Allahyari, Michael A. Morris, and Jenny Vogel, had a single screening, recently, at the gallery Two Bronze Doors in Dallas. The narrative of each film is literary and personal, and is presented as text or voiceover. The pictures are stylized; they allude to but do not necessarily describe the words we read or hear. The tension that arrives from this willful disconnect of word and picture is the aspect that defines these films as experimental. A set of objects, a situation, a landscape, or a chain of events become the formula of a particular emotion, one that is tonally similar if not completely descriptive of events in the narration. Throughout The Voice’s Folds, words and pictures travel their close but separate paths to a common goal: connect the viewer to the artists’ experiences concerning place and lifespan.

Please see this LINK for the full article.

An Evening with Karen Kevorkian & Richard Bailey: Richard Bailey

Poetry Reading at Malvern Books, Austin, TX

I'm very glad to have had the opportunity to read new poems along with my friend, L.A.-based poet Karen Kevorkian.  Our event was Friday, April 11 at Malvern Books in Austin, a glorious book store devoted to small presses.  We had a very good tun out - - big thanks to everyone who attended. And much appreciation for the folks at Malvern Books for their hospitality.