Brucia Bruno Brucia

A feature film celebrating Giordano Bruno, a philosopher, a rebel, the first beatnik - burned alive as a heretic in Rome, February 17, 1600.

Once again Adolfas Mekas will collaborate with David Avallone on this epic film, to be shot in Italy in 2012. A cast of thousands, and it will feature the actual burning of a live man.

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Guerilla filmmaker Chris Hume will go where angels fear to tread. Don’t miss his “Red State Road Trip.”

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The largest avant-garde and independent film distributor based in Paris, with a small branch in New York. Pip, the distributor, has started publishing books too.

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Most innovative summer workshop for modern, jazz, tap, hiphop, Latino, etc. An American company conducting dance workshops in Florence and in Castiglioncello by the sea in Tuscany. Top choreographers/teachers come from US and Europe.

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One-man-production-team Dick Evans has been turning out feature films one after the other. Professional, imaginative and off the wall!

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The Separate Cinema Archive is the only source dedicated to the art and history of the African-Americans in film. The Archive of over 25,000 posters, lobby cards, stills and assorted ephemera spans the past century of important and historic black cinema. The Archive also collects other film posters worldwide. Traveling Film Poster Exhibitions. Sales. Trades.

OLD IS THIS RUSHING OF RAIN

Old is this rushing of rain down the bush branches,
the droning of grouse in the red dawn of summer -
old is this our talking:

of the yellow fields of barley and oat,
the herdsmen fires in the wet, windy loneliness of autumn,
of potato digging time,
and of the sultry heat of summer,
the white glare of winter, the din of sleighs on endless roads.
And about the heavy timber wagons, the boulders in the fallow,
about the red clay ovens and limestone in the fields;
and then by lamplight in the evenings, in the autumn fields of grey -
about the wagonloads for tomorrow's market,
about the flooded and washed-out October roads,
and the wet potato digs.

Old is this our living here - many generations
walked these fields and left imprints,
each foot of ground still speaks and breathes of forefathers.
From the same cool stone wells
they watered returning broad herds,
and when the earthen floors hollowed in the rooms
and the walls in the house started slowly to crumble -
from the same pits they dug yellow clay,
golden sand - from the same fields.
And when we too are gone,
others will sit on the blue stones on the edge of the field,
will mow the overgrown floodplains and plow the slopes;
and when, back from work, they sit at the tables -
each table will speak, each clay pitcher,
each log in the wall;
they will remember wide yellow sand pits
and rye fields billowing in the wind,
the sad songs of our women in flax fields,
and that smell, the first time in a new house! -
the smell of fresh moss.

Oh, old is the flowering of clover,
the snorting of horses in a summer's night -
and the rustling sound of rollers, harrows and plows,
the heavy rumbling of millstones,
the white glimmer of the scarves of women weeding gardens -
old is this rushing of rain down the bush branches,
the droning of grouse in the red dawn of summer -
old is this our talking.

So, instead of making a film, we decided to write it. There will be a series of scripts-ready-for-production, scripts that will never be produced. By reading these scripts you can be your own producer, cinematographer, casting director, and the film director himself - all in one. Go for it!

Our first offerings:

He reads our scripts. You can too.
Photo credit: John Kisch.

Carl Sandburg reads our books. You can too.

George Binkey, Bard College Graduate of 1915, loves St. Tula.

They listen to Pola Chapelle sing every time. You can too.
From left to right: La Regina, the Court Jester, the King, the King's secret lover.

Everything goes. Sempre Avanti!

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