Talented newcomer Jonathan Ball's "Clockfire" is a suite of poetic blueprints for imaginary plays that would be impossible to produce - plays in which, for example, the director burns out the sun, actors murder their audience, and the laws of physics are flagrantly violated. The poems in one sense replace the need for drama, and are predicated on the idea that modern theatre lacks both 'clocks' and 'fire' and thus fails to offer its audiences immediate, violent engagement. They sometimes resemble the scores for Fluxus 'happenings, ' but they replace the casual aesthetic and DIY simplicity...
Talented newcomer Jonathan Ball's "Clockfire" is a suite of poetic blueprints for imaginary plays that would be impossible to produce - plays in wh...
John Paizs's 'Crime Wave' examines the Winnipeg filmmaker's 1985 cult film as an important example of early postmodern cinema and as a significant precursor to subsequent postmodern blockbusters, including the much later Hollywood film Adaptation. Crime Wave's comic plot is simple: aspiring screenwriter Steven Penny, played by Paizs, finds himself able to write only the beginnings and endings of his scripts, but never (as he puts it) "the stuff in-between." Penny is the classic writer suffering from writer's block, but the viewer sees him as the (anti)hero in a...
John Paizs's 'Crime Wave' examines the Winnipeg filmmaker's 1985 cult film as an important example of early postmodern cinema and as a sig...
John Paizs's 'Crime Wave' examines the Winnipeg filmmaker's 1985 cult film as an important example of early postmodern cinema and as a significant precursor to subsequent postmodern blockbusters, including the much later Hollywood film Adaptation. Crime Wave's comic plot is simple: aspiring screenwriter Steven Penny, played by Paizs, finds himself able to write only the beginnings and endings of his scripts, but never (as he puts it) "the stuff in-between." Penny is the classic writer suffering from writer's block, but the viewer sees him as the (anti)hero in a...
John Paizs's 'Crime Wave' examines the Winnipeg filmmaker's 1985 cult film as an important example of early postmodern cinema and as a sig...
The first story in the The Fabulous Adventures of Olly Oogleberry series, this award-winning illustrated children's book combines a heart pounding adventure with 52 pages of cosmically delicious full-color illustrations that Earthlings ages 4-8 will find charmingly entertaining.
Deep from outer space comes a band of alien misfits - led by the curious and lovable Olly Oogleberry - on a mission to save earth and all its people, places and things from the impact of a gigantic asteroid.
Come along for the ride as Olly and his friends race across distant galaxies to redeem himself from his...
The first story in the The Fabulous Adventures of Olly Oogleberry series, this award-winning illustrated children's book combines a heart pounding adv...
