16mm optically printed film, a dream-walk through Chicago, moments of nature and sky, commerce and capital, play on static, city movement, light, and color. Stuck in a revolving doorway of a Bank of America. Music produced by Brian Cox and Christopher Wiersema.
"A ghazal may be understood as a poetic expression of both the pain of loss or separation and the beauty of love in spite of that pain." -Poetry Foundation
2017 Redux / Original 16mm film by Christopher Wiersema: Ghazal for Amerika (2008)
2016 / Produced by Christopher Wiersema
Screened at Faux Faux Film Festival in Portland, Oregon / 2018
Love song from a Vermont summer garden
2017 / Produced by Christopher Wiersema
2016 / Produced by Christopher Wiersema
2012 / Produced by Christopher Wiersema / Screened at ID/Identies in Istanbul, Turkey / 2012
2012 / Produced by Christopher Wiersema
Collaboration with poet and artist Joe Bly, based in San Francisco, and poet Tyler Flynn Dorholt, based in New York City
Screened at Portland Experimental Film Festival in Portland, Oregon / 2012
2008 / Produced by Christopher Wiersema
Winter commute between Chicago and its western suburbs. Quiet boredom culminates in a small scuffle at an anti-war protest in Chicago. Screened at The New Newness: A Video Exhibition of Work by Emerging Chicago Media Makers at The Nightingale Theater.
2008 / Produced by Christopher Wiersema / 16mm Optical Printing Independent Study
16mm optically printed film, a dream-walk through Chicago, moments of nature and sky, commerce and capital, play on static, city movement, light, and color. Stuck in a revolving door way of a Bank of America.
“A ghazal may be understood as a poetic expression of both the pain of loss or separation and the beauty of love in spite of that pain." -Poetry Foundation
Everything You've Ever Known "Carajo Columbus Day"
from "King of What?" EP
https://bicycledayrecording.bandcamp.com/album/everything-youve-ever-known-king-of-what-ep
2016 / Produced by Christopher Wiersema
Found footage collage / 2011 NYC Occupy Wall Street / 2003 Chicago protests against the War in Iraq
TRE: La gioventu e disturbato molto spesso del futuro / The youth is very often disturbed by the future
2006/2007
16mm
Film by Christopher Wiersema
Music by Michael Smeraglia
Poetry by Joe Bly
Translation by Rina Pullia