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Drum-Taps

A Union soldier awakens in a southern battlefield. Is the war over?

  • H. Paul Moon
    Director
    Samuel Barber: Absolute Beauty, The Passion of Scrooge, Quartet for the End of Time
  • Walt Whitman
    Writer
  • Thomas J. Alleman
    Key Cast
  • BLK w/BEAR
    Music
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Genres:
    Civil War, Poetry
  • Runtime:
    10 minutes 58 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    May 31, 2019
  • Production Budget:
    500 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    4K-DCI Blackmagic RAW
  • Aspect Ratio:
    1.9:1
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Walt Whitman 200 Festival
    Washington, D.C.
    United States
    May 31, 2019
    World Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Walt Whitman International Conference
    Huntington, New York
    United States
    August 11, 2019
    New York Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Royal Starr Film Festival
    Royal Oak, Michigan
    United States
    September 8, 2019
    Michigan Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Queen City Film Festival
    Cumberland, Maryland
    United States
    October 3, 2019
    Maryland Premiere
    Official Selection
  • PUSH! Film Festival
    Bristol, Tennessee
    United States
    October 12, 2019
    Tennessee Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Reading FilmFEST
    Reading, Pennsylvania
    United States
    November 2, 2019
    Pennsylvania Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Richmond International Film Festival
    Richmond, Virginia
    United States
    April 25, 2020
    Virginia Premiere
    Official Selection
Director Biography - H. Paul Moon

H. Paul Moon (zenviolence.com) is a filmmaker, professor and attorney based in New York City and Washington, D.C. whose work concentrates on the performing arts. Major works include "Sitka: A Piano Documentary" about the craftsmanship of Steinway pianos, and "Quartet for the End of Time" about Olivier Messiaen’s transcendent WWII composition. Moon's first feature, an acclaimed and award-winning documentary about the life and music of American composer Samuel Barber, premiered on PBS, and he is currently finishing another documentary feature about Western poetry. His ongoing bicentennial multimedia works on poet Walt Whitman are featured at his whitmanonfilm.com. Moon's latest film is an operatic adaptation of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," awarded "Critic's Choice" by Opera News as a "thoroughly enjoyable film version, insightfully conceived and directed" with "first-rate and remarkably illustrative storytelling."

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Director Statement

The American poet Walt Whitman was born on May 31, 1819, and I created this film for his bicentennial. It's part of a poetry film series, also the companion for a half-hour video essay "Whitman on Film" at the online collection whitmanonfilm.com.