Thursday, December 29, 2011
Brandon Pitts: 'Puzzle Of Murders' book launch
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This is a very good and very entertaining reading! I watched many times creating the video, and am still not bored! He's good, that Brandon man.
Brandon Pitts at his book launch for 'Puzzle of Murders,' published by Bookland Press, at the Toronto Public Library on November 6, 2011. Brandon was introduced by the publisher, Robert Morgan. http://brandonpitts.com
A video by Brenda Clews.
Notes on the video:
Editing this video, I came to enjoy the intermittent gritty, shaky, out-of-focus quality of the clip, and did not remove it; it provides texture to the reading. It helps to impart the sense of Geist (mind, spirit, or ghost), of the author, of the insane logic of the central character of Puzzle of Murders, of the murder mystery itself. It is as if ghosts and blood and memory swirl about. There is a bodily sense of the videographer in the fuzzy hand-held quality also, another Geist. That is the eye of the videographer, and it transmits a moving image to the audience viewing the scene. It is the eye of the world watching, or perhaps its ghosts. The view is not smooth, featureless, glossy, but cinematically uneven, rough. These imperfections in the video normally would be removed in editing. I resisted, then became accustomed to them, then began to understand that where the picture has a gritty motion is where the ocean of words seeps into the vessel of the reading from the novel. That's where the salt water enters with its briny catch of krill and seaweed and skeletal remains. The imperfections give texture to what is charming, beautiful. Beauty cannot approach us in its wholeness without its flaws, deformities, fragmentations. Slice-of-life, it's messy on the edges, it has its own reality. The book is full of slips and fissures, so is the video of the launch. I hope you enjoy what I have created from my video of the event.
I finished this video on Brandon's birthday, December 28th, 2011, a perfect birthday present for him.
The background clips are free stock footage from Vimeo: black ink; woman.
Monday, December 26, 2011
Wet Trees
A mute shifting, like the slide from a light-dimmed sky
to darkness in the slanting rain. I am
wordless. The dead hover over me
as we commune.
When we are here, fully immersed, time unravels
properly. Otherwise
it knots.
Knots of not-enough time tighten. Tasks pile on tasks and
we forget the spirits
who wait for us:
To remember our remembering.
The falling rain sleets and turns to snow;
the boughs of the black trees glisten wetly
in the night.
to darkness in the slanting rain. I am
wordless. The dead hover over me
as we commune.
When we are here, fully immersed, time unravels
properly. Otherwise
it knots.
Knots of not-enough time tighten. Tasks pile on tasks and
we forget the spirits
who wait for us:
To remember our remembering.
The falling rain sleets and turns to snow;
the boughs of the black trees glisten wetly
in the night.
Saturday, December 24, 2011
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