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Starfish aorta colossus / a film by Lynne Sachs & Sean Hanley.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Javier, Paolo, 1974---Film adaptations.
- Javier, Paolo.
- Poetry in motion pictures.
- Genre:
- Short films.
- Experimental films.
- Poetry.
- Video recordings.
- Film adaptations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file (5 min.)) : sound, color
- Place of Publication:
- [Brooklyn, New York] : Icarus Films, [2015]
- System Details:
- System requirements: An Internet browser with HTML5 support.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- 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 (Nightboat Books). Sachs chose Stanza 10 from Javier's poem "Starfish Aorta Colossus". She then decided to collaborate with film artist Sean Hanley in the editing of the film. Together, they traveled through 25 years of 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 untouristic part of Puerto Rico. Throughout the process, Sachs and Hanley explore the celebration of nouns and the haunting resonances of Javier's poetry.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed May 25, 2022).
- Publisher Number:
- if-starf Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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