It sure ain't the straight story ... four short pictures ... ( “Ex and the City,” “Amen,” “No Menus Please” and “Dinner on the Riviera”) ... woven oh so loosely into this jazz-like con-

struction features a woman who enjoys imagining the ways in which her ex-husband might exit Earth so she can get her rent stabilized apartment back ... a priest lay dying, three “wise men” visit ... a workin' man has had it up to here ...  a writer remembers, invents, imagines, observes as he sits on a stoop between drinks ...a street psychotic approaches and addresses the ancient gods he believes reside in a building “on the other side” ... these are local people on the verge, or beyond .... are they real, imagined, memories, spirits?  No Vermeer here ... more like a busted-up Braque in this contemporary cityscape that uses principles of late 19th Century French Naturalism, and the “comedie rosse” (i.e., “the nasty play”). 

 

By T. D. White, shot by Lily Gist. January, 2012,  13 minutes. 

OFFICIAL SELECTION!  NY Shorts Fest, screening at

Sunshine Cinema on Houston St. May 31 at 9: 45 (Program 9) .... www.nyshortsfest.com for info and tickets!

Also selected by New Filmmakers for their Spring Series at the Anthology Film Archive on Second Avenue and Second Street, screening May 8, 2012

"Circe, Circe, Daughter of the Sun"

                                                                                                                                                                             -Painting by Stephen Lloyd Smith