2016 Black Maria Film Festival Program

Starfish Aorta Colossus
Experimental
by Lynne Sachs and Sean Hanley
Brooklyn, NY. 5 min.
Poetry watches film. Film reads poetry.
Paolo Javier’s text is a catalyst for
the digital sculpting of an 8mm Kodachrome
canvas. Syntactical ruptures
and the celebration of nouns illuminate
twenty-five years of rediscovered film journeys.
NYC poet Paolo Javier invited filmmaker Lynne Sachs to create
a film that would speak to one of his poems from his newly
published book Court of the Dragon. She asked film artist
Sean Hanley to collaborate with her in the editing of the
film. Together, they traveled through 25 years of the unsplit
Regular 8 mm film that Sachs had shot - including footage of
the A.I.D.S. Quilt from the late 1980s, a drive from Florida to
San Francisco, and a journey into a very “un-touristic” part of
Puerto Rico.
The Goodbye
Narrative
by Daniel Markowitz
St. Paul, MN. 17 min.
Hounded by his agent, a forlorn writer
struggles to re-ignite his creative mojo,
all but extinguished since the death of
his muse, his one true love. Tappety-tap,
the keyboard brings to life silent assassins
creeping through lush and misty jungles in search of their
prey. Masked shadows face each other in the ultimate showdown.
Swords clash and she appears - The Girl. Can the writer
face his lost love, finish their story and write his career-saving
ninja script?
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