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Optic Nerve Ltd
United Kingdom
Приєднався 7 жов 2014
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
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
Thanks Jack, Gary, Allen, and Neal for awakening a generation. Sadly we are slipping into Fascist autocracy. Resist in their names!
This is pretty cool, like a 50s poetry reading in Greenwich Village or North Beach. Many of the morons making negative comments don't know this history.
I've been there. Here's a modernized version: An ocean of cargo ships, Trading digital products for dollars, China and the U.S. vying for dominance.
Filmed not too long ago but Gary has a foot in the analogue world and outside is the natural world, a step beyond that.
And dammit That's just what I've gone and done.
The viola does give me the impression that this was a discarded instrument. An experiment that after trial led to another one that was chosen by Pagannini. There is nothing within the instrument that tells me that this was a loved instrument, meaning, that someone took the responsability to commit to it.
and he, a little charleychaplin man..
Loved this programme, (back when tv was educational,...and, entertaining).
Read the video’s description!
Notre monde manque de saints et de poètes.❤
Love this: the talk and the chant
cool ce type
Name of reader, please. With thanks in advance.
It is my passion the beat-generation, it was years back i read those books, I love it
Thank you for the upload. Where is this clip taken from?
Every sentence has the potential to break something in your thought - and build something else, new, never before seen.
"...every pulse of the rot at the heart in the sick fat veins of America..." From the beginning of the history of this country, the dog-whistle call to rich, greedy (mostly) men around the world: Come and get it, boys! It's all here for the taking...more trees, soils, minerals, waters, animals, 'resources' than you can imagine. Make millions, hell billions! of dollars using everything you can take from this virgin land.
College park and real world intersections.
a human being for the ages
Today is July 17 , 2024, what a lovely coincidence! Sending you love and peace, Gary.
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 marin county. I should maybe make a video someday of this
How did you find it? Would you mind sharing the location I'd be interested in visiting myself
I can tell you this: turn in at the 9 AM club and continue straight on monteford and keep left (lower) at the fork in the road. Not too far from the elementary school(on the left), you’ll see an open space (field) that slopes up a very very very steep hill. This is on the right side of the road. That’s the spot. Don’t tell too many people, now! ❤
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