Current Projects
2023 - 2024
Hearsay and Heresy is a filmed version of a stage play by Nathan Smith set in Concord, MA during the 1846 Mexican War. Mari Andrejco portrays an elderly citizen from Concord. Andrew Joffe plays her brother, newly returned to the US after 30 years in Germany, and John Segalla plays Henry Thoreau. The Videographer is Johnathan Doster.
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Images from A Holiday Memory
slap of sea
tickle of sand
children capered
sandflies hopped
skyblue summers departed
fairs are no good in the day
all the fun of the fair in the hot bubbling night
swing boats swimming like slices of the moon
as we climbed home
we heard the music die and drift like sand
Images from Quite Early One Morning
In the winter by the sea that was lying down still after a night of tar-black howling
the town was not yet awake
birds sang
the town was waking now
voices blown up to me
moved out of sleep and darkness
into the newborn
ancient and ageless morning
moved and were lost
Ongoing Projects
Edward Herbst is currently writing a book that will include an expanded version of all five volumes of the Bali 1928 CD notes. The book will also focus on the research and
repatriation strategies used in this project, and the broader imperatives of a repatriation process facilitated by collaboration among foreign and indigenous artists and scholars.
Beth Skinner is engaged in documenting her 8 years of work with the Richmond Consolidated School's Creative Arts Program, where she directed performances generated by kindergarten, first and second grade classes.