You might recall that the summer of 2018, I embarked on a three hour project to channel my pent-up emotions regarding the Trump administration — his 1st term at bat. In my Jiffy-Mix style, we whipped up a menu of choreography, images, acting, and site specific Godspell-ish meanderings. Satirically driven, the footage we shot then was made into a film-short that at the very least, let out a little steam that had been building within. It wasn’t Michael Moore in its breadth and scope, but hinted at the very things he and everyone else had been vocalizing about regarding the inane events of the day. We were in a free fall, so while falling, I took advantage of the timing and gathered my artists up to get to work. I wrote a poem back then, MAGA in D flat, that gave me the nuts and bolts of my storyboard.
And, here we are all over again — another free fall, and I’m taking advantage this time around with a great new editor who is helping me to morph Something Fake, into Something Fake II. Why not? It’s pretty much the same story, but with slightly different twists. I’m ripping off my own material to rebuild and highlight the rut we’re in now. It’s a mixture of fear, hate, greed, and a desire for power. This evil concoction is the cause of all the daily changes we can’t keep up with. You know what else I crave besides peace? Where we can see life again as C.S. Lewis once did, where day by day nothing changes.
Stay tuned for our finished film this Spring!
