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THE TRIP (2019) Written & Directed By Acclaimed Poet Eileen Myles

David Fenster
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THE TRIP is a road trip movie through the majestic, rough-hewn landscape separating Texas towns Marfa and Alpine with poet Eileen Myles as your guide. Inspired by Jack Kerouac’s spoken score of Robert Frank’s 1958 poetic classic Pull My Daisy, Myles talks dailiness and political realities with puppet interlocutors Oscar, Bedilia, Montgomery, Casper, and Crocky. Eileen Myles is a member of the WGA and recently adapted their novel, Chelsea Girls, into a screenplay.They have published more than twenty volumes of poetry fiction and nonfiction including Not Me (1991), Cool for You (2000), The Importance of Being Iceland: travel essays in art (2009), Inferno (a poet's novel) (2010), Afterglow (a dog memoir) (2017), and evolution (2018). Writer, Director: EILEEN MYLES Producer, Cinematographer, Editor: DAVID FENSTER Music: MARK SO Made With Support From the Poetry Foundation and CineMarfa Shot on Super 8mm Film ...more
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THE TRIP (2019) Written & Directed By Acclaimed Poet Eileen Myles
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2019May 15
THE TRIP is a road trip movie through the majestic, rough-hewn landscape separating Texas towns Marfa and Alpine with poet Eileen Myles as your guide. Inspired by Jack Kerouac’s spoken score of Robert Frank’s 1958 poetic classic Pull My Daisy, Myles talks dailiness and political realities with puppet interlocutors Oscar, Bedilia, Montgomery, Casper, and Crocky. Eileen Myles is a member of the WGA and recently adapted their novel, Chelsea Girls, into a screenplay.They have published more than twenty volumes of poetry fiction and nonfiction including Not Me (1991), Cool for You (2000), The Importance of Being Iceland: travel essays in art (2009), Inferno (a poet's novel) (2010), Afterglow (a dog memoir) (2017), and evolution (2018). Writer, Director: EILEEN MYLES Producer, Cinematographer, Editor: DAVID FENSTER Music: MARK SO Made With Support From the Poetry Foundation and CineMarfa Shot on Super 8mm Film

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David Fenster

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