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Optic Nerve Ltd
United Kingdom
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Optic Nerve is a video production company founded by me, Colin Still, & based at my home in South London. Our work is mostly concerned with poetry, the visual arts & contemporary music.
The name Optic Nerve refers to a passage in William Blake’s prophetic poem Milton.
The name Optic Nerve refers to a passage in William Blake’s prophetic poem Milton.
Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri - Trailer
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Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri - Trailer
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Trailer for the documentary on the radical poet/playwright Amiri Baraka. Find more at www.opticnerve.co.uk
Stan Tracy - live at the Queen Elizabeth Hall
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Amiri Baraka - Newark Rebellion
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An excerpt from the forthcoming feature documentary 'Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri'. Find out more on opticnerve.co.uk
Amiri Baraka - Harlem Mafia
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An excerpt from the forthcoming feature documentary 'Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri'. Find out more on opticnerve.co.uk
Arrows of Desire - Gary Snyder
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Two short films inspired by the poems 'Frontlines' and 'As The Crickets Soft Autumn Hum' by Gary Snyder
Gary Snyder - Jack Kerouac/Dharma Bums
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Extract from the feature-length documentary 'I, The Poet Gary Snyder'. Find more at www.opticnerve.co.uk
Gary Snyder - Things To Do Around A Lookout
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Extract from the feature-length documentary 'I, The Poet Gary Snyder'. Find more at www.opticnerve.co.uk
Gary Snyder - Why Log Truck Drivers Rise Earlier Than Students of Zen
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Extract from the feature-length documentary 'I, The Poet Gary Snyder'. Find more at www.opticnerve.co.uk
Gary Snyder - Straits of Malacca
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Extract from the feature-length documentary 'I, The Poet Gary Snyder'. Find more at www.opticnerve.co.uk
Gary Snyder - Notebooks & Journals
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Extract from the feature-length documentary 'I, The Poet Gary Snyder'. Find more at www.opticnerve.co.uk
Lawrence Ferlinghetti: History of the Airplane
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Are There Not Still Fireflies
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Reading Yeats I do not think
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Reading Yeats I do not think
Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Allen Ginsberg Dying
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Allen Ginsberg Dying
Lawrence Ferlinghetti: The pennycandystore beyond the El
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti: The pennycandystore beyond the El
Lawrence Ferlinghetti: See it was like this when
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti: See it was like this when
Lawrence Ferlinghetti: In Goya's greatest scenes we seem to see
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti: In Goya's greatest scenes we seem to see
Lawrence Ferlinghetti: The world is a beautiful place
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti: The world is a beautiful place
David Matthews' 13th Quartet performed by Kreutzer String Quartet
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David Matthews' 13th Quartet performed by Kreutzer String Quartet
Peter Coyote reads ‘On Earth’ by Robert Creeley
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Peter Coyote reads ‘On Earth’ by Robert Creeley
Fantastic and important interview. Thanks.
This documentary looks like a rip off of what I assume is the earlier one on Williams Titles "William Carlos Williams, Man Made of Words." ua-cam.com/video/Du1DJli1_jY/v-deo.html Who made this documentary and when?
Holy crap! I instantly knew Peter coyotes voice from the audiobook "the teachings of Don Juan" by Carlos Castaneda.
this is fascinating! i love the interplay Ferneyhough is evoking. it really shifts music away from it aristocratic past when it was essentially traded as a commodity from rich to servant, back to its communal aspect.
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You’d be interested to know that the other day I climbed that tiny, insanely steep little hill above the main brown house in mill valley where the little dharma bums cabin once stood, under the eucalyptus tree line separating the woods from the little field. There are concrete columns that once held it up. There are still bits of wood attached to the concrete pillars that once belonged to the cabin. And there is still that trail above that site that connects to all trails throughout main county. I should maybe make a video someday of this
Please bless us with the ability to watch the entire thing ASAP.
Dharma Bums was so influential in my late high school/early college days in the early 70s. I wanted to be a dharma bum/zen poet so badly. I guess, in many ways, I still am trying to be one ;)
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I got to hear Jerome do this at the first Talking Gourds Poetry Festival in Telluride in a private living room. It was mesmerizing! As he clearly states to begin, this is not Navajo but his English ethnopoetic take on an Indigenous verbal form. While I'm sensitive to possible claims of cultural appropriation by some, I believe this creation is a bridge between cultures that honors its sources while creating an exciting new possibility of poetry form.
Still as delightful as 10 years ago. Do keep it alive. It's like an old friend who's still alive to remind us that we are doing fine.
I totally enjoyed Amiri Baraka explaining the rebellion, he was a writer, a poet with his people,his people was his poetry and plays ,a well skilled artist.
Wonderful! Great to hear SB speak about his ideas.
To aske for all thy love, and thy whole heart t’were madnesse, I doe not sue, nor can admit (Fairest) from you to have all, yet who giveth all hath nothing to impart, but sadnesse. He that receiveth all, can have no more then seeing. My Love by length of every houre, Gathers new strength, new growth, new flower. You must have daily new rewards in store, still being. You cannot every day give me your heart for merit: Yet if you will, when yours doth goe, You shall have still one to bestow: For you shall mine when yours doth [hence de -] part inherit. Yet if you please, Ile finde a better way, then change them: For so alone dearest we shall Be one and one, anothers all - Let us so joyne our hearts that nothing may estrange them.
This looks amazing I can't wait 🙌🏿
Technicians one of six books i have not lost over the past 35 years. This rendition--nice job Jerome.
So great, Gary. I’m a compulsive note taker myself. Have hundreds of sturdy note pads from over the decades! But too busy adding to them to even reread them, let alone write a book. I’m in Kyoto in 2024. Be well, Gary!
Reading Dharma Bums again. I come back to it every few years. It settles me. Makes me content with what I am. An ordinary guy, chomp chomp chomping his way. Full of imperfections. Making out he’s something he wished he was, but isn’t. Alone, like with that starry sky and sandy beach. Like Kerouac, I’d rather snuggle on a cold mattress with railroad gloves on than on some pink cushy bed. A little struggle just to make me appreciate this simple life more.
What an amazing piece! (Love the last note!!!!)
🌙🕉️🪵🦊. Han Shan.
Possibly the greatest UA-cam video of all time
Fascinating
Just started reading this one. Trying to go in order, but recently learned I skipped Town and the City before On the Road.
Don't bother about the order. I argue you could learn a lot more about a writer by starting from their last pieces of work, or really anywhere. Not telling you what to do, only that it doesn't matter.
Amazing. Where can I find the whole documentary?
Such a cool clip
0:54: 🎵 The ballad of American skeletons is a satirical commentary on various political and social issues. 3:08: 🎵 This UA-cam video is a song that highlights various societal issues through the perspective of different skeletons. 6:13: 📺 The video is a spoken word performance about the influence of media on society. Recap by Tammy AI
You mean that after 40 years, he didn't have it memorized?
When you get to the top of the mountain keep climbing!
Poem from 01:42
Great story Thanks
this is an Allen Ginsburg poem 'Midnight City Junk Strains (for Frank O Hara)' being read by Allen Ginsburg
Was searching up Christopher Smart and got suggested this! Such amazing expressions, a visual and audio theatrical experience through a mere 3 minute video! That too from 8 years ago. The world is marvelous
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Amiri Baraka was truly the father of the Black Arts Movement He walked the walked and talked the talk,he was-is a genuine brother.I miss him so much,yet he still lives on,he is the example of a writer,poet,a father etc...
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A lot of those children celebrating at the end probably died in WW2
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Peter Coyote has one of my favorite voices. I first heard him reading the hatchet audio book when I was a kid.
Sir John Betjeman was so astute! He understood how some people think! Not him, but OTHER people!
What a big viola....😮
Poem starts at 2:28 sounds like a great life :)
Beautifully crafted meditation hall! I can appreciate it as a carpenter. Read all of Kerouac pretty much and can tell he had a very high esteem for Gary Snyder. I can see why. He is grounded unlike the Beats who were going out of their minds looking for "it."
Gary Snyder the sanest member of the Beats. The others all burned out and died young seeking the extreme .
funny considering how crazy he is in Dharma Bums. But looking back he does seem the healthiest lol, mentally and physically
Still alive and kicking at age 93. Neal Cassady's Denver friend Al Hinkle lived to be 92, but he wasn't really a beatnik as he worked on the railroad most of his life but did go on that great cross country journey with Neal & Co in his '49 Hudson.
@@8176morgan I looked up what a 49 Hudson looked like and remembered a friend of mine was restoring one of those back in the eighties. A Hudson Hornet. What an iconic vehicle for Neal and Jack and the crew to travel America in. Found a vid on this server that was a guy sitting around a campfire telling the story of Neals last hours down in Mexico.
He never considered himself a Beat. Even in The Dharma Bums, the novel that exalted Gary Snyder (Japhy Ryder in the book), Jack Kerouac depicts him as a singular character, disciplined and determined. At the famous Six Gallery reading Kerouac mentions how he stood out from the other poets, who seemed more more scholarly, literary and indoorsy. I guess some people consider him a wild man, but Gary actually seems to be a kind of button-down outdoorsman/poet. He's not the kind of person who would have ever burnt himself out early, as so many of the prominent Beats did. He had the self-discipline to undertake life at a Zen Monastery in Japan for the better part of a decade, and unlike most of the Beats he firmly set down roots and dug in at the home he built with his own hands in the Sierra Nevada foothills. If he can even be categorized, I would say Snyder actually belongs not with the Beats but with the few American writers who built their own homes in nature that informed their ideas about the environment, conservation, space, and time, like Thoreau and Robinson Jeffers (who Snyder admired).
@@24HeySay Thanks for that in depth analysis of who Gary Snyder was. Yeah I agree he wasn't really one of the Beats and was in his own category. He had skills and actually knew how to work and build his own home.
When I think of Ferlinghetti, I don't think of Coney Island. I think of Brighton Avenue, and the used book store with an old Asian woman that would stare at a static TV screen for hours, yet through conversation was evidently one of the best read people on earth, who could seemingly do anything, but had decided that her purpose was to sell books at cost to poor Bostonians with dreams. I read I AM WAITING and cried tears of pain, joy and wonder. She charged me something like 2 bucks after looking at whatever note she made on the second page. Gog bless her
This is magnificent. Love this.
These poor men and boys sent to their death shame the politicians don't fight on the front line
An interesting piece.
To hear these reflections so many years later gives a sense of understanding in the literature I grew up with that I had only briefly considered before.
I’m 45 and never considered Kerouac until I found myself battling my “need” for a 6 figure salary vs what I really wanted from life. I packed my 3k sq ft house into storage and headed to Mexico 6 months ago with a travel trailer. Simplicity and curiosity can change your life.
The physical element is passed on but these special men, Lawrence and Allen, live on the forever page, within us all who heard, saw and read them. Grateful.
❤point seems to be, Allen will never die. ❤
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