REVERIE
a work-in-progress by Andre Chuzalk
"The sea observed is a reverie.
The dark punishment of the waters, eternally tortured, was commencing. A lamentation arose from the whole main. Preparations, confused and melancholy, were forming in space. The doctor observed all before him, and lost no detail. There was, however, no sign of scrutiny in his face. One does not scrutinize hell.
A vast commotion, yet half latent, but visible through the turmoils in space, increased and irritated, more and more, the winds, the vapours, the waves. Nothing is so logical and nothing appears so absurd as the ocean. Self-dispersion is the essence of its sovereignty, and is one of the elements of its redundance. The sea is ever for and against.
It knots that it may unravel itself; one of its slopes attacks, the other relieves. No apparition is so wonderful as the waves. Who can paint the alternating hollows and promontories, the valleys, the melting bosoms, the sketches? How render the thickets of foam, blendings of mountains and dreams?
The indescribable is everywhere there—in the rending, in the frowning, in the anxiety, in the perpetual contradiction, in the chiaroscuro, in the pendants of the cloud, in the keys of the ever-open vault, in the disaggregation without rupture, in the funereal tumult caused by all that madness!"
Andre Chuzalk's Reverie
Mr. Chuzalk's mediums are analog, restricted to language and silver-emulsion. "Not all media hold space for phenomenon, not everything breeds Life."
Mr. Chuzalk is a photographer and poet currently working out of New York City at the Clown Show Prison artist-in-residency program.
When asked about the film, Mr. Chuzalk replied: "The project, an answer to the question of modern poetry, how can the poetic image function in an ecosystem over-saturated with images? I am lazy, and I take my images in cinema now; it is easier than massaging them out of their hiding place behind words. Can cinema operate as a poem does? Can it induce the viewer into reverie? Perhaps easier than the poem, but if the dream is simply fallen into, is it a reverie? Or is it a departure from the self, a severance. For reverie reminds me of "My-non-I". . . The project justifies itself in the poetics of reverie. It will let the viewer retrace the steps of the camera. Where we have come from is evident in where we reveal ourselves to now be. The camera is both photographer and poet. I process everything myself. . . The film resists conceptualization. Though for such a thing as this it is necessary. I refrain from mutilating the inexplicable essence of the reverential and hope that the photographs and poem can speak for themselves."
(Beside photograph, Andre Chuzak "self-portrait", Oakland, 2022)
Mr. Chuzalk's mediums are analog, restricted to language and silver-emulsion. "Not all media hold space for phenomenon, not everything breeds Life."
Mr. Chuzalk is a photographer and poet currently working out of New York City at the Clown Show Prison artist-in-residency program.
When asked about the film, Mr. Chuzalk replied: "The project, an answer to the question of modern poetry, how can the poetic image function in an ecosystem over-saturated with images? I am lazy, and I take my images in cinema now; it is easier than massaging them out of their hiding place behind words. Can cinema operate as a poem does? Can it induce the viewer into reverie? Perhaps easier than the poem, but if the dream is simply fallen into, is it a reverie? Or is it a departure from the self, a severance. For reverie reminds me of "My-non-I". . . The project justifies itself in the poetics of reverie. It will let the viewer retrace the steps of the camera. Where we have come from is evident in where we reveal ourselves to now be. The camera is both photographer and poet. I process everything myself. . . The film resists conceptualization. Though for such a thing as this it is necessary. I refrain from mutilating the inexplicable essence of the reverential and hope that the photographs and poem can speak for themselves."
(Beside photograph, Andre Chuzak "self-portrait", Oakland, 2022)
Mr. Chuzalk is seeking donours to assist with the direct production costs of the film (the film and its processing)
Any donation will receive a tax-deductible receipt as well as the credit of producer.
Please contact Clown Show Prison Inc. for more information
ig: @clownshowprison
email: clownshowprison@gmail.com
or in person: 100 Freeman Street, Brooklyn, NY
Any donation will receive a tax-deductible receipt as well as the credit of producer.
Please contact Clown Show Prison Inc. for more information
ig: @clownshowprison
email: clownshowprison@gmail.com
or in person: 100 Freeman Street, Brooklyn, NY
