#Proud to #announce that our #antinarrative #experimental #shortfilm ‘NO WAY HOME’ took the #award for #ExceptionalArtistry #lastnight at the @officiallatino #filmfestival - It means a lot to be recognized by your own... more than anyone can know... #16mm #16mmfilm #filmsnotdead #Bolex #blackandwhite #avt #filmmaking #indiefilm #SupportIndieFilms #IndependentFilmmaking Watch NO WAY HOME on your TV • Computer • Tablet • Phone • #Xbox • #AppleTV • #Roku • #AmazonFire • #GoogleChromecast on #Vimeo #vimeoondemand #vod #videoondemand #Vimeo #vimeoondemand #vagabond https://vimeo.com/ondemand/nowayhome Shot on 16mm film with a Bolex, New York City, Red Rock Canyon Nevada and Valley Of Fire Nevada and desaturated of color into gorgeous black and white images composed by my DP Jeff “AK” Akers, with voice overs written as poems and disguised as dialogue and an improvised and layered score headed up by Los Bros. Rodriguez, Arturo and Joseph on bass, guitars and drums, with contributions by Kevin on guitar and my brother Mark on upright bass, beautifully acted by Kelvin, Flea and Omar... No Way Home is a meditation on an idea that i wanted to explore about the nature of God. The thesis being that God is fractured among human beings and that the only way to know God is to fuse these fractures together by recognizing the God in someone else. Each of the characters represents a single element of a trinity. The first character in the film is the Spirit, the second character is the Mind and the third character is the Body. These three characters are searching for each other in order to settle the dissonance they feel… When they find each other they become whole but their individual journeys eventually break them apart… The brief encounter strengths and invigorates them and they reaffirm their resolve as they each set out to change the world in their own way. The only way to bind the trinity in such a way that it will never be severed again is to open the eyes of the world to the fact that separately we are human and together we are God… Cast @lostsaintbkny @miss.flea Crew @jeffrey_akers @fernandezman #photo by @uglyplanet Design by @vgbnd #AVT #AudioVisualTerrorism (at Teatro LATEA)

Old #friend Elaine Del Valle (we go back like car seats) took home the #award for #BestActress in her @elainedelvalleproductions #shortfilm ‘FINAL DECISION’ (which has won a number of other awards at #film festivals) that she also #wrote #produced #cast & #directed and of course we had to get a #picture together with our #awards... Our award was for #ExceptionalArtistry for our #antinarrative #avantgarde #experimentalfilm ‘NO WAY HOME’... #supportindiefilm #independentfilms #independentfilmmakers #independentfilmmaking #AVT #AudioVisualTerrorism (at Teatro LATEA)

From our #film NO WAY HOME starring @lostsaintbkny (#Finalist for #ExceptionalArtistry #award) #screening today @officiallatino @2pm @teatrolatea... OR watch it o line www.vimeo.com/ondemand/nowayhome These decisions get wrapped like a stone around your heart tossed into the depths, falling away from the surface, falling away from the light and the warmth of the sun. In the end there is no blame, only responsibility. When this righteous anger is past due and spoils to turn to bitterness, it will make complete sense to turn your back on the beauty of what could be. Your strength turned against you so the fight is within you and the struggle is without you. The failures of idealism piled up like dead bodies and the reasons are excuses dressed as wisdom and wisdom is a realists eulogy written for idealists #filmfestival #filmmakinglife #filmmakerslife #filmmaking #16mm #16mmfilm #Bolex #filmsnotdead #AVT #AudioVisualTerrorism (at Teatro LATEA)

From our #film NO WAY HOME (#Finalist for #ExceptionalArtistry #award) #screening today @officiallatino at 2pm @teatrolatea... the price of pursuing these truths is life the equation is simple the life you live is the product of truth and your death will be the receipt and so it goes life after life and death after death the scales tipping toward a balance and the liars will continue to lie creating powerful distractions potent complacencies promoting the comfort of acquiescence to achieve compliance the truth is uncomfortable ugly and requires too much from us i keep moving to grow accustom to the pain of it to create an endurance for it i am not as the liars say, what I own i am the miles I have travelled i am the sum of the truths I have endured i am not on this journey I am the journey #filmfestivals #Filmmaking #16mm #16mmfilm #Bolex #filmsnotdead #Filmmakinglife #filmmakerslife #officiallatino2017 #olsff2017 #AVT #AudioVisualTerrorism (at Teatro LATEA)