This is an experimental film wanting to remind viewers that we are all just a small part of a vast universe. The only rules that Joan and I set before we began collaborating on this project was that my film and her music should be 30 minutes and I won't even hear her music until the opening.
Experimental film was premiered at Berlin Germany MaerzMusik Festival in March 2012 "Cage and Consequences" celebrating 100th anniversary of John Cage Birth as a part of Joan La Barbara live performance.
The ghost of Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch returns to Greenwich House, the community settlement she founded over a century earlier, and roams through the musical landscape that now thrives there.
Danilo Kiš (February 22, 1935-October 15, 1989) was a Yugoslavian author and poet whose work was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. This short film is inspired by Kiš's story, "A Tomb for Boris Davidovich".
A lonely elderly man confines himself to his tiny one-room apartment, mourning the loss of his beloved wife. Over time, he forges a bond with The Room, bringing into existence a presence that eases the loneliness of his final days. Tenants come and go in the years that follow, but none form a connection with The Room and its spirit fades away.
This film examines the circle of life and the mystery of our existence. We struggle to overcome destiny, but in the end our souls return to the same source that first gave us life…