I made this piece for a "visual poetry" project in my cinematography class. I chose to visually adapt the poem "To Think of Time" by Walt Whitman. It's shot entirely on 16mm color film.

The arts featured in this vid are scanned from my 1940 copy of Leaves of Grass.  The artist is Lewis C Daniel.  Other images from wikimedia commons

In paths untrodden,
In...

Based on a poem about life in transition from one generation to another, by Dr. Walter Lathrop

To a Stranger by Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
PASSING Stranger!  you do not know how longingly I look upon you,
You must be he I was seeking, or she I was seeking, (it comes to me...

FOR ALL AGES, the uncut AGT 90 second version of Veniamin's Human Slinky at America's Got Talent Second Edition, June 2007. Was amazing 3-X for Human Slinky in America's Got Talent NBS, but always...

commentary by Allen Ginsberg, Galway Kinnell and Donald Hall.

directed by Jack Smithie for "Voices and Visions" series, on VHS tape,  by the New York Center for Visual...

So many times
those things
before us
the eye doesn’t see

The changing tide
we fight with all
our might

Globalization is
the crust
on the...