Crazy Leaders, Crazy Weaponry

 

Project poster

 

COVID: Where Did It All Go Wrong?

 

The War on Smog 1

 The first from a series of moviepoems about the link between military activity and climate change.

Yongin/ 용인

 

The Can-litiad 1

#canlit #Writing. A New Year is almost upon us — and in Cdn lit circles, there’s been discussion lately of how to “make things new”. That’s a great proposal … if it’s actually acted upon in a way that shapes contemporary culture. Full video at YouTube: youtu.be/4uPvaQdWGP4

Your World

Clip #1: A moviepoem about rural roots: Your World youtu.be/kaI1ZtdRVPA #poetry #poetryfilm. This is a quasi-experimental project that’s a combination of personal documentary and poetic video. The project begins with footage of the Joongang (Central) Market in Hadong.

Christmas

 

Yongin

 

PicGall 15

 

Yongin

 

Merry Killmas

Merry Killmas 1

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/jPAuzVyeKm0

Chris Gehman 2

Cinéaste expérimental et archiviste, Chris Gehman discute les forces matériels qui ont formé le cinéma en Canada. Deuxième partie.

Experimental filmmaker and archivist Chris Gehman discusses the material forces that have shaped film in Canada. Part two. 

Chris Gehman 1

Cinéaste expérimental et archiviste, Chris Gehman discute les forces matériels qui ont formé le cinéma en Canada. Première partie.

Experimental filmmaker and archivist Chris Gehman discusses the material forces that have shaped film in Canada. Part one.

Happyland — clouds

 

In transit — project still

 

Putin’s psychological complex

 

Missile Launch as Painting

Clip from Missile Launch as Painting: Tall and Thin as Incense Sticks (For the People). 

Full video at YouTube: https://youtu.be/bkMNagLlOu0. #poetry #poetryfilm #moviepoem.

Un jour de neige/ 눈오는 날/ Snowy day

 

Portrait of C. — a moviepoem

From my brother’s work; an encounter with an addict.

Missile Launch as Painting XIL

Clip From Missile Launch as Painting (Incense Sticks … For the People). This is part of an ongoing project about the hunger of weapons systems and their human « food ». Full video at YouTube: https://youtu.be/bkMNagLlOu0. #poetry #poetryfilm

Project still: Winter poems

 

A moviepoem about winter

 

Missile Launch as Painting — drones

 

Upcoming

 

Putin’s Mind

 

War Markets

Missile #poetry #poetrycommunity #antiwar. WAR MARKETS — a spoken word version of a poem/ moviepoem I recently had published in lit journal Mudlark. Full video at YouTube: https://youtu.be/rQT2oE4XfN4

Zaporizhzhia is still a danger zone

 

Masking in South Korea

 

Mask Wars

#masks #covid19 #pandemic 

Masking is ubiquitous in Asia. No, it’s not a perfect protection against Covid-19, but it does keep numbers down, and it’s a very safe technology that, theoretically, should not be controversial. Yet in  Western countries it often is … so much so that masking has now become a flash point of the culture wars.

Full video at YouTube: https://youtu.be/StNIjxfgtMw

The War on Smog XI

The four opening photos in this clip here were all shot in the past week. They capture the eerie warmth South Korea is experiencing this fall; spring flowers blooming in late November because of global warming. Moreover, military activity significantly increases carbon emissions. Is there a connection between these two phenomena? Full video at YouTube: youtu.be/Mj1lJfbNJtU

War Markets

 #poetryfilm #poetrycommunity #experimental #antiwar #militarism #economy 

A new work about our teetering world. YouTube link: youtu.be/SWqLFVSWb5I

Text online at the literary journal Mudlark: mudlark.webdelsol.com/flashes/harvor.html 

War Markets

 Honored to have a new piece entitled War Markets at the online literary journal Mudlark. 

Greening Korea: street design

 

Crazy Leaders, Crazy Weaponry

 

Seoul

 경복궁에서 이 유명한 공주 와 왕자가 왔어

Une princesse et un prince qui viennent du palais de Kyoungbukkung.

A prince and princess departing Kyoungbyukkung Palace

Long Light

Clip from Long Light: from a new project about my brother’s writing — his experience of being in the world. New music.

For an earlier project at YouTube, link here: youtu.be/M1rGFP3NTpw

Missile Launch as Painting XXXIX

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/ytZkQ15Mq9U

Chat de campagne/ Country cat/ 자연의 고양이

 

Traditional Korean Market

 

 S. and I went to the Hadong Market today. It never seems to diminish in vitality, though I’m sure the nearby  supermarkets are indifferent to its fate. For more abt Hadong’s food traditions, Greening Korea: youtu.be/ex6K64LYVkc and Market Alive III: youtu.be/MayScGN7qNM

S. et moi sommes allés au marché de Hadong aujourd'hui.  Sa vitalité ne semble jamais diminuer, même si je suis sûr que les supermarchés à proximité sont indifférents à son sort.  Pour en savoir plus sur les traditions culinaires de Hadong, Greening Korea : youtu.be/ex6K64LYVkc et Market Alive III : youtu.be/MayScGN7qNM

Remembrance Day

Rabies Beach 1 youtu.be/DK9JpZOqREE via @YouTube. 

Opening to Rabies Beach, a novel about Canadian soldiers encountering for the first time the vicious child soldiers of the 12th SS in Normandy. #RemembranceDay 

Extrait d’un roman qui raconte l’histoire des soldats canadiens et leur première rencontre avec les jeunes soldats sauvage du 12th SS en Normandie. #JourDeSouvenir

Night photography

 

La circulation en Pangyo/ Traffic in Pangyo / 판교에서 교통

 

PicGall 9

Full video at YouTube: https://youtu.be/OsKWuK-sNBE

Soraepeul Tunnel, Séoul

 

Street magician

Street Magician: PicGall 12. Full video: youtu.be/8M9AxkoDbxU via @YouTube. #streetphotography #a7iv #a6400 #sonylenses #sonycamera #photography #photooftheday #seoul #urbanliving

A minute-short taken in Seoul. Camera: Sony a6400. Lens 18-105 f4 PZ.

There was some discussion recently on the strengths and weaknesses of the 18 105 for video. 

Street Photography: PicGall 11

 Street Photography 

Sound Into World (new version)

Sound into World, version three (take two) youtu.be/p4Vw1ksqqBw via @YouTube. #video #poetry #poetryfilm #moviepoem. Third version (ie., completely different version) of a work abt noise pollution and natural sound.

Project still — Seoul

 

Kimchi

Making kimchi and green tea. YouTube link to full video: https://youtu.be/ex6K64LYVkc

The Highly Illustrated Screenplay Narrative

 

The Highly Illustrated Screenplay Narrative

  #novel #publishing #literature. 2/The recent PRH merger trial underlines  publishing is going through turmoil; the result in no small measure of declining fiction sales. My idea is a new form of graphic fiction should be established: the highly illustrated screenplay narrative.

#roman #édition #littérature.  2/ Le récent procès de fusion PRH souligne que l'édition est en pleine tourmente ;  le résultat dans une large mesure de la baisse des ventes de fiction.  Mon idée est qu'une nouvelle forme de fiction graphique devrait être établie : le scénario narratif très illustré.

새 글러브 그룹 감독 과 작가 있다…

Green tea

 

PicGall 2

I occasionally put together minute-long video galleries of photos. This is a collection of shots taken here in Seoul on the a7iv using an FE Sony prime 50mm 1.8. It’s not the sharpest lens out there, but it’s very portable and has great character. More to follow.

About the Highly Illustrated Screenplay Narrative

 

Project still - from thé Highly Illustrated Screenplay Narrative

 

Upcoming/ bientôt/ 곧

 

Seoulography

 

Drone Technician 2

 

Peacedemic 4

 

Peacedemic 3

 

Project still - The Violence of Sadness

 

PicGall 10

 

PicGall 10 — a clip

 

Making kimchi 2

 

Making kimchi 1

 

PicGall 10: street photography in Seoul

 Street Photography: PicGall 10 — a minute photo gallery https://youtu.be/Kh3Yk8YhZ3U via @YouTube. Street Photography

https://youtu.be/Kh3Yk8YhZ3U. #streetphotography #a7iv #a6400 #sonylenses #sonycamera #photography #photooftheday #seoul #urbanliving

Sony a6400/a7iv. Lens: 85mm 1.8 FE.

World Bardo, number 1

  World Bardo 

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“Your mother often talks about your brother,” the doctor said during the teleconference last night. “How is he?”

“Votre mère parle souvent de votre frère….” a dit le médecin hier soir pendant un conference de téléphone. “Comment ça va, lui?”

YouTube: https://youtu.be/BnsfJKkRFNA

Clip from Meat: New Cut

 Link to full video: https://finn-harvor.blogspot.com/2022/10/missile-launch-as-painting.html?m=1

Seoulography

 

#PhotoOfTheDay #sony #photo #PhotoMode #photography #사진 #Seoul #서울특별시 #ソウル . Seoul, South Korea. From the Seoulography series. 

Pour voir la vidéo/ To see video versions, here’s an example on YouTube: youtu.be/OsKWuK-sNBE

서울/ Seoul

 

Loitering Drone

#experimental #antiwar. 

LOITERING DRONE

The age of robotic war has arrived. Curiously, very few artists and poets seem concerned. Genuine indifference, or inability to know how to respond? 

Clip below.

Full video at YouTube: youtu.be/5w7C1hwGtzc

A beautiful cafe in Seoul

#산모통이기페 #서울푸경 #photo #photography #PhotoOfTheDay #seoul. The Sanmotongi Café.

 For a brief video on the cafe and its environs, explanatory video at YouTube: youtu.be/701XIlIOyNU

The War on Smog

#climatechange #militarism #climatecrisis

We don’t want bad forces destroying our homelands. But is there a limit to what militaries can do to protect us? After all, untrammeled climate change also an existential threat…

Full video at YouTube: youtu.be/Mj1lJfbNJtU

산책 길 하동에/ Walking trail, Hadong

 

The War on Smog, part XI

#climatechange #militarism 

We don’t want bad forces destroying our homelands. But is there a limit to what militaries can do to protect us? After all, untrammeled climate change also poses an existential threat…

Full video at YouTube: https://youtu.be/Mj1lJfbNJtU

Childhood is remembered geographically

#videopoetry. Clip from Childhood Is Remembered Geographically. Full video at YouTube: https://youtu.be/cRf-X6GURlM 

Tolstoy’s new opus

#ukrainerussiawar #russianaggression #militarism #crazyleaders #putinparanoid #biden

Full video at YouTube: https://youtu.be/LPRDi3q8BRw

Pyotr Tolstoy, great great grandson of renowned novelist and humanitarian Leo Tolstoy, is a rabid warmonger. He’s also a member of the Russian parliament, the Duma. His violent rhetoric in turn raises questions about the psychological wellness of major power leaders generally.

The Kerch Bridge: Sabotage?

# Ukraine #ukrainerussiawar #kerch #crimea #kerchbridge #russiaukrainewar #putin #putinbirthday

The Kerch Bridge between Crimea and the Russian mainland has just been seriously damaged. What’s next? Full video at YouTube: youtu.be/bHCSaB8GIf4

Tactical versus Strategic: Is Limited Nuclear Wa Possible?

#nuclearweapons #nuclear #nuclearwar #tacticalnuke #strategicnuke #ukrainerussiawar #russiaukrainewar #putin

No one wants global nuclear war. But is a « small » nuclear war possible? Some recent news stories have suggested this is possible. Full video: youtu.be/glV3nHEiB58

Seoul

 

Who is Ramzan Kadyrov?

Who is Ramzan Kadyrov? #kadyrov #ukrainerussiawar #russia #chechen #chechnya #nuclearweapons #ukraine #geopolitics 

Clip from a brief bio of Chechen dictator Ramzan Kadyrov. Full video at YouTube: youtu.be/wzLfq2K9Nto via @YouTube….

Chechen leader Kadyrov and nuclear weapons

 

Night moon

 

Inside Putin’s Mysterious Mind — clip

Full video at YouTube: https://youtu.be/mQUaeWJEbyA

Tongin Market/ 통인시장

 

Seoul

 

Ukraine, Putin, and Illegal Annexation

 

In Yongin

 

Don’t Worry!

 

Peacedemic or Gungasm?

From the Fascistii series: https://youtu.be/Oe4chzu4vTg

From the Peacedemic series: https://youtu.be/rilI_cxFRyE

Are People Still Masking?

#masking #CovidIsntOver #CovidisAirborne #COVID .

 Most people have given up on masking — at least in the West.  South Korea is a different story…

 La plupart des gens ont renounce au masquage – du moins en Occident.  La Corée du Sud est une autre histoire…

Tea Festival in Insadong

#GreenTea #Korea #녹차. Clip from a work in progress about green tea festivals. To see an earlier project, here’s a YouTube link: youtu.be/ex6K64LYVkc

Deep Breath 4

 

In Hadong

 

We Need Peace: an experimental ambient

 

Yongin in the evening

 

World Bardo 128

 

Greening Korea: From Hadong

 

Fruit de mer coréen/ Korean seafood/ 회

 

Meat

 

Is Putin Psychologically Disturbed?

 

Hadong

 

Hadong

 

Near Hadong, South Korea

 

The walk-calm cycle

 

Jiri

 

숲에서/ Dans la forêt/ In the forest

 

태풍후/ After the Typhoon

 

A potential nuclear crisis in Ukraine?

#UkraineRussiaWar #ZaporizhzhiaNPP #UN #nuclearcrisis.  A UN team said it is not moving during the risk of hostilities near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine.  Good idea.  But why not general demonstrations to end this tragic war?

Une crise nucléaire potentielle en Ukraine?

#UkraineRussiaWar #ZaporizhzhiaNPP #UN #crisenucleaire. Une équipe de l’ONU a déclaré qu’elle ne bouge pas pendant la risque des hostilités près du plant nucléaire Zaporizhzhia en Ukraine. Bonne idée. Mais pourquoi pas des manifestations général pour cesser cette guerre tragique?

Korean forest

 

용인에서/ Yongin

 

Bus Music

 

비오는 날/ Rainy day

 

비 오는 날/ Rainy day

 

여의도/ Yoeido

 

Soraepeul

 

From Korea to Canada and Back Again— promotional video

 YouTube link: https://youtu.be/bUBBSnFxdk0

Seoul, evening

 

Pearson Airport

 

Don Valley bike trail

 

Near Queen Street

 

An Irish pub in Toronto

 

Green Tea and Kimchi: Greening Korea

 

Heureux que/ happy that my documentary on food culture, “Greening Korea: From Hadong” chosen by a festival in Italy.

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/ex6K64LYVkc

#Korea #RuralAsia

Synopsis: A personal documentary about the agricultural life in Hadong-gun, the region of South Korea where my wife grew up. Filming was on the farm belonging to her family, and in the marketplace of the nearby town.

Green tea production is particularly prevalent in Hadong. But its farmers are under extreme economic pressure. More than this, Koreans’ habits in terms of favored beverages are changing, and the popularity of coffee is having a severely detrimental effect on green tea sales.

Kimchi, on the other hand, remains a staple of the Korean diet. And kimchi-making (kimchang) remains a traditional activity in most Korean households. Usually a group activity, after my wife’s mother’s death, my wife took this over duty solely.

[Note: a .txt file transcript is available for translation]

(Note: I have both 2K and 4K versions of this project.)

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Screenings and awards:

Mokkho International Film Festival

May 6, 2021 (winner)

Sprouting Seed International Short Film Festival 2020

Nov 28, 2020

(Winner)

Sunfest International Short Film Festival

May 15, 2021

 

Pune Short Film Festival

Oct 8, 2021

 

INTERNATIONAL FOLKLORE FILM FESTIVAL - IFFF. Jan 2, 2021

Anatolia International Film Festival

Feb 3, 2021

 

Great Message International Film Festival

Mar 20, 2021

 

Indo Global International Film Festival

Dec 25, 2020

 

K. R. MOHANAN MEMORIAL INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL

Jan 10, 2021

 

Jharkhand Film Festival

May 8, 2021

 

Alibag Short Film Festival

Jan 20, 2021

 

Goa Short Film Festival

Dec 10, 2020

 

Golden Tree International Documentary Festival

Jul 25, 2020

Stockholm Film Festival 

(Finalist)

Ashoka IFF

January 20, 2022

 

From my collection of ambient and authorial movies. My focus is on videopoetry; however, I work in other genres and art forms as well.

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Toronto financial district

 

Lake Ontario

 

Last Question of the Evening (excerpt)

 

Last Question of the Evening (excerpt)

A screenplay story

Ext. A side street in a large city. Night.

A LONE FIGURE WALKS DOWN THE SIDESTREET. IN THE DISTANCE, ANOTHER FIGURE WITH A DOG.

Anders (VO): There’s someone in the hood, out walking her dog, relaxing before bed. Me: I’m just gearing up…

Insects’ World — a videopoem

 

Hospital lounge

 

The Rideau, Ottawa