
"... 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.
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"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
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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 ...
Visit
www.willatwork.com
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
DVD Price: $10 (Plus $2 Shipping)
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 14th 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.
Price $10.00 (Shipping $2)
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
Price $5 ($2 Shipping)
Wet Money
Price $5 ($2 Shipping)
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T. D.
White
is
a card-carrying NYC writer-actor (SAG-AFTRA-AEA) and member of The Dramatists’ Guild with performance
history in HBO’s Sex and the City (The Amish guy
in “The Big Journey,” remember? Fifth Season, the
train?), Deadline and Conviction; and live at The Mint, The Red Room, La Mama e.t.c., the National Arts
Club,
Irish Arts Center, most recently as Ernest Hemingway in “Karaoke Night at the
Suicide Shack.”
He is the title
character in Seamus McNally’s THE HYPNOTIST, an official
selection of Le Festival des Films du Monde
(Montreal).
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