Otherhood
Last Things
Laika
For the Time Being
Vever (for Barbara)
Optimism
Teaching an Alphabet the Plants
Siege
Xenoi
The Illinois Parables
Second Sighted
Hacked Circuit
Immortal, Suspended
Musical Insects
The Name is not the Thing named
Village, silenced
...These Blazeing Starrs!
Ray’s Birds
Shrimp Chicken Fish
FF
Kuyenda N’kubvina
O'er The Land
The Memory
The Magician's House
It Will Die Out In The Mind
How Among The Frozen Words
Kings Of The Sky
Energy Country
In Order Not To Be Here
Untied
The BLVD
From Hetty To Nancy
On The Various Nature Of Things
Iolanthe
Waking
Palimpsest
In Flight: Day No. 2,128
the train from la to la
Possibilities, Dilemmas
A Letter
Upon a Time
My Alchemy


Filmography


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...These Blazeing Starrs!
 2011, 16mm film, 14:16

Synopsis
Since comets have been recorded, they’ve augured disaster: catastrophe, messiahs, upheaval and end times. A short film about these meteoric ice-cored fireballs and their historic ties to divination that combines imagery of 15th-18th century European broadsides with NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory footage.

…These Blazeing Starrs! juxtaposes a modern empirical desire to probe and measure against older methods, when star gazers were translators, explicating the sky more intuitively for predictions of human folly. Comets are now understood as time capsules harboring elemental information about the formation of our solar system. Today we smash rockets into them to read spectral signatures. In a sense, they remain oracles - it’s just the manner of divining which has changed.

...These Blazeing Starrs!
Threaten the World
with Famine, Plague, & Warrs:
To Princes, Death:
to Kingdoms, many Crosses:
To all Estates, inevitable Losses!
To Herds-men, Rot’
to Plowmen, haples Seasons:
To Saylors, Storms;
to Cittyes, Civil Treasons.


- Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, 1578


Credits
Music/Sounds: Disinformation, John Duncan & Max Springer, Ryoji Ikeda, L.O.S.D., Pansonic, S.E.T.I.
Additional Footage: NASA/JPL
Camera, Edit, Sound Design: Deborah Stratman


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