While the BROADSIDE form has traditionally been associated with written attack the CINEMASIDE is not so limited in scope. At Jim Dodge's workshop on writing ku (April 5, 10AM at the RCC Black Box Theater) we'll learn how to write ku poems. A short film, like a poem, tells a story evoking an image in the viewers mind that transcends the images on the screen. At Esper Lukat Films workshop (April 5, 1PM at the RCC Black Box Theater) we'll work on making short video's out of the ku we write in Jim's ku workshop.
Chip Phillips gave me FUP to read a few years ago. We had just finished the first draft of a feature film script we were collaborating on and he said it was a good read, so I did as suggested and read it. BOOM! I finished it after reading straight for a couple days and next thing I know I am laying face down on my kitchen floor crying like a baby. I still don't really know why:) What I do know is that the book had a powerful impact on my subconscious. As if awakened from a dream I felt vulnerable and small, void of pretense. An empty vessel to be filled with nothing. I called Chip up and said, "We've got to do a Festival honoring people like Jim Dodge." Stuff happened and didn't happen, time passed and then a few months ago Chip showed up at the ELF (Esper Lukat Films) production room (my garage) and put another book by Jim on the ping pong table. I looked at him with a 1000 yard stare and muttered, "uh, oh." The book was A Book of Ku, Jim's latest and greatest. As with FUP, I consumed it in one sitting. this time I didn't end up face down on the kitchen floor but instead head up at my computer assembling the framework for the first ku*kuroo** event.