SL/ABB/ED
A poetry film produced as a progression from the Disappear Here project – 27 film-poems about Coventry Ringroad
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Adam SteinerDirectorDisappear Here
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Ben CookDirector
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Adam SteinerWriter
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Ben CookFilming Engineer
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Daviel LinkKey Cast
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Project Type:Experimental, Short, Other
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Runtime:3 minutes 5 seconds
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Completion Date:March 30, 2018
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Production Budget:0 GBP
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Country of Origin:United Kingdom
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Country of Filming:United Kingdom
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Language:English
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Shooting Format:Digital
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
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Walthamstow International Film Festival 2018London
United Kingdom
June 23, 2018
Premiere!
Selected
Adam Steiner’s poetry and fiction appear in Rockland Lit, Proletarian Poetry, The Next Review, Fractured Nuance zine, BoscRev: 4, The Weary Blues, The Stare’s Nest, ShoutOut UK, 3:AM, The Cadaverine, Spontaneity, Abridged 0-13, The Literateur, Nostrovia! SquawkBack, NOUS. Anthologies: Interpal – Palestine Verses, Fugue 1 (Siren Press), Poems Underwater, Stepaway – Voicewalks (Durham University).
SL /
ABB
/ ED
The doing of work
Is done to us
Meat-born
Machines
Driven by blood
Slapped slab
onto slab
Grit grinding hands
Tilting at dominoes
Monolithic by the minute,
Day becomes days
A razor raging
after its edge
Atlas shirks his spot
Turning the hour round
About his hands,
Thoughts turned towards a cannonball.
I say: They are too hard
They say: you are too soft
But for uneven accents,
determined to trip you up,
You would not fall so far
From a fingernail’s breath
Hinge-flipped lid
Closing shadows
Upon burial wedge
Folding time into
The thinning end
Final last words set:
TO THE ANGLE OF INCIDENCE
AT WHICH THE HOURS SUPPLIED
COME TO ZERO
AND CANNOT HONESTLY
BE ACCOUNTED FOR
Over the shoulder
Inertia creeps
Tread its own heels
Chasing the worker's shadow
into a distance.
Until sun decides
Being begins again
Undo the flag
Punch-out
The clock,
Its two-faced display
makes the world turn
One-way only;
Towards work
And after,
Knowing that when work is done
It must be done
To death
From work even the strongest horses die
-Czech proverb