"... a lovely landmark film about art ..." - F. Murray Abraham " ... striking and lyrical ... subtle and evocative." --         David Sterritt, Chairman, National Society of Film Critics "... a ...perfect work of art, with an integrity and a purity that few works of cinema ever achieve." -- Judith Malina, Founder of The Living Theatre "... unique ... beautifully rendered ... gorgeous score ...convincing performances ...this sweet, subtle and mesmerizing film explores the meaning of art ... Recommended." Library Journal, Feb. 15, 2010 "The acting is superb ... Simple yet sophisticated, this cinematic masterpiece is a rare find ..." School Library Journal, Nov. 2008, p.64.

"To Paint the Portrait of a Bird"   Poetry in motion....a beautiful short film inspired by the famous Jacques Prevert masterpiece.  As he is observed by a young boy, a painter seeks to capture life, a living thing ... a bird ... on canvas.  Available in the original French, Italian, or in the English translation by poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti.   Canada/US, August 2007, 15 mins.   (WINNER! - Best Short Film, 2007 New York/Avignon Film Festival) Official Selection: Woodstock Film Festival Mill Valley Film Festival Montreal World Film Festival Spiritual Cinema Circle Bayou City Inspirational Film Festival   www.topainttheportraitofabird.com   DVD $10 Plus Shipping English Version   French Version

Script: Dinner on the Riviera

You just really never know when something weird, funny, or dangerous can happen on the precipice of everyday life.

A woman wants her rent stabilized apartment back from her ex-husband,  a priest lay dying, a man has had it up

to here,  and another man sits on a stoop at night between drinks ... these local people are linked together only by the writer who created them and some 16 mm film.  Shooting Spring 2010, probably 12 minutes.

Script: Will at Work

"Live!... at the Cockpit!:Will at Work with the Lord Chamberlain's Men"

(It's Shakespeare ... but this time from behind ... time will-spent!)

 ... actors act up ... the tiring house, what we now call the dressing room  of the newly built Globe Theatre during a 1599 performance of the last act of William Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream, that "lamentable comedy and most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisby..."

Meet the men responsible for the "First Folio," John Heminge and Henry Condell. Meet Thomas Pope, reputed to have played Falstaff before the Queen, and the musician/actor Augustine Phillip; Richard Burbage, the primary "sharer" and lead actor. You'll meet the Bard himself, as the true "Lion" he was, as he "directs" the "men" in new scenes he has just written for Henry V and yes, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. And you'll meet Nell. You gotta meet Nell.  

How it may have been back then... sort of ...

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Film: The Hypnotist

Originally a Talk House production now available from Loose Moon Productions, Inc.  A short film written and

directed by Seamus McNally (a mix of 16 mm and DV shot in Jersey City and Manhattan by Jonathon Cliff of

Toronto) premiered as an Official Selection of the 27th annual Montreal Festival des Films du Monde (2003).  A young man is guided through a recurring nightmare by a local magus...."a beautiful job of nuanced, understated film-

making-- suggestive and dramatic at the same time, which isn't easy to pull off.  Very strong camera work as well as good acting and sensitive use of music." -- David Sterritt, film critic for the Christian Science Monitor

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Script: Murder by Word of Mouth

Intense drama written to help the 20% or so of the population adversely affected by alcohol fallout in the family.  A one-act play produced at the Greenwich Street Theatre in NY.   Caution: crime scene.  Screenplay in progress.

In a cityscape, a man of forty, inspired by a poem, seeks to recover and rebuild his life from a lifelong bout

with alcoholism.  He seeks the guidance of a therapist who uncovers the developmental damage in this man's early inner city life ... the effects of trauma ... "child of chaos" syndrome ... the suspicious death of his brother ... at last, a user-friendly universe in a stirring and most surprising conclusion: "Kitchen sink" drama with inspirational ending.

Script: The No Zone (Last Licks!)

A grizzled Greenwich Village bartender is visited by Frank, a thirty-year-old nephew he hasn't seen since the boy was five ... since his his brother's odd passing and his nephew's subsequent and distant relocation.  Frank, the nephew named for his father, wants first-hand information, but his uncle suspects other motives, and deals a different set of cards and free admission to another dimension where everything changes, including the characters.  

The Lady and the Lion (short novel)

In two-act form, it is a satire of media called THE KING OF DIAMONDS .  It was directed as a concert-style reading by George Ferencz at LaMama e.t.c. in April of 2002, and as a screenplay we call it SOME THINGS ARE SACRED.    Jacques Barzun has said that “if one would know the heart and mind of America, one should learn baseball.”   A major league eco-vandal shows us why.  Baseball, and the 14^th c. Toltec period.   Meet Noland Walker catcher and civil disobedient, Alicia West, New Orleans newswoman, Siobhan Spillane, attorney,  Andrew Washington, “special investigator,” and the Sioux, Loose Moon.  Visit San Francisco, New Orleans, Houston, D. C. and other major league American cities as Noland Walker, the philosopher sprite and athlete, imaginatively transforms our modern world.

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Also Available: WHERE THE EASTERN MIND MEETS THE WESTERN WORD (including The Koan, Heaven on Aries, The Old Man and the Tree, Syllogism and Solution of the Koan “what is the sound of one hand clapping,” and a few more ), and WET MONEY (with ‘Tis Pity, Free Parking, Young at Heart and other saloon shorts) -- two fiction collections  you can read for $5 each.

Where the Eastern Mind Meets the Western Word

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Wet Money

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