The Kitchen SINK & Everything, But

from 2010 —
THE KITCHEN SINK TRT. 11:24
everything, BUT TRT. 3:06 — Winner – BEST FILM with a sustainable agriculture theme at BIG 3 Film Fest, South Bend ,Indiana

My “collage” films bear witness to human activity that runs primarily on unconscious energy.Their wacky atmospheric sense suggests psychological dimensions as they inspire others to find out about issues that effect humanity (here it’s humankind’s stewardship to the Earth and its agriculture). Their impressions present no final conclusions, nor convey “messages” directly- the viewer must suss out their own “meaning”. Intersecting tangents implied through the audio and visuals work to manifest consciousness of the interdependence between thought and actions; evincing that nothing exists alone. Their poetic form is a kind of expanding multiplicity of potentials and encounters and juxtapositions and resonances.

THE KITCHEN SINK and everything, BUT (a 3 minute spin off of THE KITCHEN SINK) embody the idea of plant EARTH as our sanctuary, articulating the intersection between nature and civilization; suggesting fissures between human and natural infrastructure. Their spoken text breaks through a cacophony of voices bombarding the audience with a smorgasbord of newspaper stories and documentary facts from both physical and metaphysical stratum; whose implications stretch between humor and horrific reality, joining Earth to Sky, desert to garden, sustenance to starvation. ———————————

REFERENCES:

  • the PLEIADES star cluster: used by ancient man for planting information
  • Moon Goddess Diana/Artemis: Diana reflects light and has been used to symbolize American commerce as agriculture. Also note visual er attributes of gas flame and waterfall used in Western art’s first installation (Duchamp)
  • Russia’s crop failure and peat fires in 2010
  • mono cropping; agriculture and its relationship to charcoal and fossil fuel production
  • poppy crops in oil production regions
  • Monsanto’s relation to seeds, genetic engineering
  • famine, war, human consumption; details about healthy vegetables
  • excerpts from poems (IN FLANDERS FIELDS ties most of these facts together)
  • the cycle of nature, and performative acts of a ritualistic sort
  • homages to film history: Charlie Chaplin’s table ballet in THE GOLDRUSH and Melies’ TRIP to the MOON
  • the risk of bees becoming extinct
  • the Chinese radical for “plant sprout” resembles a fork use for digging the ground and an eating implement

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CREDITS :

VOICEOVERS:

the Leisures: Greg, Anne & Katie
Jack Brence JR
Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
Neno
Marc Silverman
Lili White

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WRITERS:IN FLANDERS FIELDS; John Alexander McCraeOH MY GOD, THAT’S 30,000 BEES; Ava ChinIT’S A BEE MARKET AS INSECTS SWARM WALL STREET; Verena Dobnik

FIELD REPORT: RICE DREAMS; Christine Muhlke; NYTimes 3/28/2010

RUSSIA, CRIPPLED BY DROUGHT,BANS EXPORTS OF GRAIN; Andrew E. Kramer; NYTimes; 8/6/2010

FIELD REPORT: RICE DREAMS (about Farmer Ukel) by Christine Muhlke; NYTimes; 3/28/2010

Ron Sveden’s story (pea in the lung) by Catherine Donaldson-Evans; NYTimes; 3/28/2010

names of the months: “little corn month” – (NATCHEX : Mississippi Valley) and

“tamarinds & beans are ripe”- (MALAGASY : Madagascar) – from CALENDAR: Humanity’s Epic Struggle to Determine a True & Accurate Year by David Ewing Duncan

a Blackfoot legend as noted by Paul Goble

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QUOTES:”Great is Diana…” (New English Bible: Acts 19:28)Dr. Rupert Sheldrake: film: THE BAD SEED: The Truth About Our FOOD; new science ideas . com

moon Goddess: Diana / Artemis & the Pleiades star cluster from Wiki Infothe Pleiades astrological sign
from LIBRI TRES de OCCULTA PHILOSOPHIA
by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, 1531*water writes always in * plural by Octavio Paz

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