{"id":351,"date":"2010-06-16T10:11:25","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T18:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/onelife\/?p=351"},"modified":"2010-06-16T10:11:25","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T18:11:25","slug":"how-to-remain-the-videopoem-or-music-video-as-required","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/?p=351","title":{"rendered":"HOW TO REMAIN, the videopoem, or music video, as required"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Frazzled! I may not look it here but I am fried! Wiped out! Crashing post-wrap, but surfacing too, to all the tasks that have piled up back at the ranch. O isn\u2019t it fun being an artist? Okay, I\u2019m going to refrain from bitching, whining and moaning. For now.<\/p>\n

O my poor blog! One Life<\/em> is not enough! I\u2019ve neglected it for the past few weeks, along with several other fronts, as I scrambled to finish up production on two videopoems in order to make Monday\u2019s Zebra Poetry Film Festival deadline. How To Remain <\/em>by AURAL Heather and Bushwhack<\/em>, adapted from the book with visual artist Tina Schliessler.<\/a> Both projects have left the building! In the post on their way to Berlin.<\/p>\n

My old school punk rock cohort Chris Coon<\/a> and I composed music and he scored Bushwhack<\/em> in the 11th hour. We made several major changes in editing and worked through a mountain of snafus, naturally. Woo hoo! Josef and I were just discussing the incredible amount of work that\u2019s gone into the 2:32 minutes of How To Remain<\/em> and 5:07 minutes of Bushwhack<\/em>. Lots of hoops to jump through for the application as well including the following synopses:<\/p>\n

The audience is along for a wild ride in How To Remain<\/em> with a compulsive protagonist resolutely heading toward an elusive goal of perfection, perpetually struggling to stay on, to stay thin. How to remain in control <\/em>is at the heart of anorexia and bulimia. Ubiquitous images of the ideal woman provide pressure and anxiety for us all. She turns to her trusty steed but instead of her<\/em> body disintegrating, the horse\u2019s body withers away. A symbol of intense desire and instinct, the horse\u2019s ribs start to protrude as it becomes increasingly emaciated until finally disappearing with a *POOF!* Perhaps it\u2019s a warning, considering that the horse pertains to the unconscious and in fable and legend, clairvoyant. Though eating disorders are serious matter, the story is really about facing our all-too-human mortality. Remain<\/em> is the key word and our secret desire, fueling our heroine\u2019s quest for eternal youth and beauty, i.e., immortality. She is in a race. A horse race. A rat race? Or a labyrinth. Reel time accelerates as it does in real life; time seemingly flying by with advancing years as we move toward our inevitable departure. Of course how<\/em> we live is crucial and what really matters.<\/p>\n

Adapted from the provocative book and unique collaboration by visual artist Tina Schliessler and poet Heather Susan Haley, Bushwhack<\/em> compels the viewer to see\u2014and hear\u2014the forest in an entirely new way.<\/p>\n

All I had time, or brain capacity, to write! Co-director Tina said she liked its succinctness. I will post them both on my YouTube channel and all the other Net outlets.<\/p>\n

In any case, I can only post How To Remain<\/a> today, waiting on a DVD of Bushhwhack<\/em>. Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Frazzled! I may not look it here but I am fried! Wiped out! Crashing post-wrap, but surfacing too, to all the tasks that have piled up back at the ranch. O isn\u2019t it fun being an artist? Okay, I\u2019m going to refrain from bitching, whining and moaning. For now. O my poor blog! One Life […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[38,149,206,352],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}