Addiction

A remix film about obsession and connection in the age of social media. More experimental films can be found here.

One Every 24 #47

Anecdote Hinting at a Recurring Fear

When he told B. B. it was terminal

The doctor likened the disease’s spread

To weeds taking over a lawn.

It’s impossible to get them all, he concluded.

What bullshit, B.B. thought at the whole idea of being

Shut off at the height of twenty-six

That a lawn survives with care in spite of weeds

And a goddamn doctor can’t even kill me

With an accurate analogy.

Radial Possibilities of Luminous Foreground Layered upon Incomplete Negative Space

This is not a Metaphor for the Relationship between Divine Intervention and Mass Comsumption

One Every 24 #46

Divination (Hepatoscopy)

You were not the lucky one
hopping through days
beneath the hunter's lazy eye
drawn askance, aimless.

Unfanged, your off head, delicate
ears, liver gnawed in the shade
as the cat read its own meaning
in your unwound guts splayed over

blood spotted stones. One future
do I see told in these remains:
we will battle with charmed feet
licked clean of their saving grace.

One Every 24 #45

Silent Movie with a Final Scene Inside Your Car

Luminous, exploding into the instant
We fall upon each other across the seats
Throw pancake looks against the levered
Light piling through the A.M. streets
Stunned by this quality production
Torn by yet another fried egg sunrise
And the shock of our disdain, such a mute
Imposition upon our fiery vomiting
The washed-out black and white grace
Inside our argued embrace rising as we rise
Through the lie of our being and the truth
We need to become each of us throwing
The other aside even as we're thrown
Aside by the other. And wan, so wan
Our pressed-glass daguerreotype pause
Beneath our precipice grip now dangling
Us at the very brink of us, as we are wanting
Rescue clinging to the lip of the zebra
Striped clapper, that toothless alligator
Mouth singing the live organ soundtrack
Wanting only gravity, closure, action
Between our fading in and fading out.

One Every 24 #44

Attention Beneficary (sic) Outing You Who are Not You #3

This is to intimate you
of a very important information
which will be of a great help to redeem
you from all the difficulties you have been
experiencing in getting your long overdue
payment due to excessive demand for money
from you by both corrupt officials
and Courier Companies after which your fund
remain unpaid to you. I am Mr. Joefrery Cole
the Financial Counselor and Director Monetary
and Capital Markets Department.
I'm a highly placed official
of International Monetary Fund. (IMF)

It may interest you to know that reports
have reached our office by so many
correspondence on the uneasy way
which people like you are treated
by Various Banks and Courier Companies
across Europe to Africa and Asia
and we have decided to put a stop to that
and that is why i was appointed to handle
your transaction here in Nigeria. All


Governmental and Non-Governmental parasites
NGOs, Finance Companies, Banks, Security
Companies and Courier companies which have
been in contact with you of late have been
instructed to back up from your transaction
and you have been advised NOT to respond
to them anymore since the IMF is now
directly in charge of your payment.
You are hereby advised NOT to remit
further payment to any institutions
with respect to your transaction
as your fund will be transferred to you
directly from our source.

I hope this is clear. Any action contrary
to this instructions is at your own risk.
Respond with immediate effect and we shall
give you further details on how your fund
will be released. Also call me as soon
as you send the e-mail (joefreycole@att.net)
so that you will be given an immediate response:

Direct Hotline: +234-813-669-4069
DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR
Mr. Joefrery Cole
INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND (IMF)
FINANCIAL MONITORY DEPARTMENT/UNIT