Plot
Dire Digest is the newest feature film from PMP Productions. It's a horror anthology with six interlocking stories from six different writers. Stories include: Just a Dream (written by Michael Karlin and directed by Aubry Peters) An Occurrence (written and directed by J. Scott Winegarner) It's Nothing (written and directed by William L. Harper) Necessary (written and directed by Aubry Peters) Engraved Danger (written and directed by Davis Lee DeRock Jr.) The Ark (written and directed by Dustin Hall)
Plot
We explore the life of a man who is love deprived. He is an artist, a sculptor who wishes for nothing more than to make the perfect woman. Carving her out of stone he gives her all of the qualities he desired most in a companion, but is unsatisfied. He asks for god to give her life, to give him love, but when his wish comes true he is ungrateful. God punishes him, and he must live out the rest of his life without her physical beauty, appreciating her as a person.
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Suddenly Dance Theatre's OPIUM observes the artist through fits of creative madness and addiction, in a hallucinatory dance short inspired by the French artist Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963) and his famous struggle with addiction. Written by Miles Lowry; starring Canadian choreographers David Ferguson, Jung-ah Chung, and Dominique Porte.
Keywords: canadian, cocteau, dance-film, french, opium-addiction, surrealist
Opium is for those who dream of waking somewhere else
Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Traditionally, sculptural process have focused on carving and modelling, generally in stone, metal, and wood, but since modernism shifts in sculptural process have led to an almost complete freedom of materials and process. The Western tradition of sculpture began in Ancient Greece, and Greece is widely seen as a producing great masterpieces in the classical period. During the Middle Ages, Gothic sculpture represented the agonies and passions of the Christian faith. The revival of classical models in the Renaissance produced famous sculptures like Michelangelo's David. Modernist sculpture moved away from traditional processes and the emphasis on the depiction of the human body, with the making of constructed sculpture, and the presentation of found objects as finished art works.
Materials may be worked by removal such as carving; or they may be assembled such as by welding, hardened such as by firing, or molded or cast. Surface decoration such as paint may be applied. Sculpture has been described as one of the plastic arts because it can involve the use of materials that can be moulded or modulated. Found objects may be presented as sculptures.
Anthony "Tony" Howell (born 1971 in the Lake District) is an English actor, best known for his starring role as Sgt. Paul Milner in the British TV series Foyle's War.
Howell trained to be an actor at the Drama Centre, and his acting debut came when on a world tour with Robert Lepage's Geometry of Miracles. He subsequently starred in Wives and Daughters (1999) before taking a year out to appear in the 1999-2000 Royal Shakespeare Company season in Stratford-Upon-Avon, where he took major roles in the three main plays of that season: Orlando in As You Like It, Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet and Antipholous of Ephesus in The Comedy of Errors.
In 2005, Howell starred in Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None in London's West End. He played the lead in the first stage adaptation of John Fowles's The French Lieutenant's Woman which toured the UK in 2006. In 2008, Anthony Howell appeared in the Primavera production of Jingo: A Farce of War by Charles Wood at London's Finborough Theatre, then toured with the Peter Hall company in Ibsen's Portrait of a Lady and A Doll's House. In 2010, he played a minor role as Gordon Way in the BBC TV adaptation of Dirk Gently (which was loosely based upon the books by Douglas Adams).
Jordu Schell is a renowned American sculptor and concept artist who has been working in the film and television industries for over twenty years.
Jordu Schell began his career as a sculptor and Halloween mask maker. He primarily sculpts in clay and other physical materials, rather than in CGI or in 2-D drawings, although he works in those forms as well.
Schell first started designing FX for Hollywood on Bride of Re-Animator, and went on from there to work with Stan Winston on such movies as Predator 2, Edward Scissorhands, and Batman Returns. In television, he designed aliens for the opening season of Babylon 5.
From 2005-2007, Schell was instrumental in the design of the Na'vi and other creatures in James Cameron's movie Avatar, shaping the designs of the characters with physical sculptures when Cameron felt that the CGI designs were not capturing his vision. Schell sculpted numerous maquettes to help solidify the look of the Na'vi race, often working in the kitchen of Cameron's Malibu home.
Everybody Loves Raymond is an American television sitcom, starring Ray Romano and Patricia Heaton. It originally ran on CBS from September 13, 1996 to May 16, 2005. Many of the situations from the show are based on the real-life experiences of Romano, creator/producer Phil Rosenthal and the show's writing staff. The main characters on the show are also loosely based on Romano's and Rosenthal's real-life family members.
The show reruns in syndication on different channels such as TBS, TV Land, and in most TV markets on local stations. From 2000 to 2007, KingWorld distributed the show for off-network syndication. In 2008, CBS Television Distribution took over King World's distribution, although its logo is retained on TBS. CBS only owns American syndication rights; ancillary rights are controlled by HBO and Warner Bros. Television (WBTV distributes the series outside the US in conjunction with HBO; while HBO Home Entertainment and Warner Home Video own DVD rights worldwide).
The show revolves around the life of Italian-American Raymond Barone, a newspaper sportswriter for Newsday living with his family in Lynbrook, Long Island, New York. Whiny and flippant, Raymond does not take many things seriously, making jokes in nearly every situation, no matter how troubling or problematic, and constantly avoiding any sort of real responsibility.
Here I am again on the brink of destruction
Lost all senses of comprehension
What I have seen is cold reality
The stage has frozenb but still approaching
Death takes its toll on me
Mind decay
Disminded energy
Haunted by yesterday
Don't want my soul to bleed
Senses astray
Lost sanity
Time to pay
Hidden in this world that was made for me
Standing alone, I am freezing
The door is locked now, I'm trapped in me
One-way path and a missing key
Chaos in my mind, I am lost in thought
Never an end, why won't it stop?
A sculpture ideal to be perfect in all ways
But what I see is a statue with no face
Death takes its toll on me
Mind decay
Disminded energy
Haunted by yesterday
Don't want my soul to bleed
Senses astray
Lost sanity
Time to pay
Hidden in this world that was made for me
Standing alone, I am freezing
The door is locked now, I'm trapped in me
One-way path and a missing key
Looking down at the past forgotten
Undying memory of what was and that should have been
You're not the fear, it's me
Is there something here that is pulling me back?
Did I lose myself in this attack?
Arranging my mind's complex thoughts
To be released from this predestined loss
Death takes its toll on me
Mind decay
Disminded energy
Haunted by yesterday
Don't want my soul to bleed
Senses astray
Lost sanity
Time to pay
Hidden in this world that was made for me
Standing alone, I am freezing
The door is locked now, I'm trapped in me