Ladies and gentlemen,
I have been away on an artist’s residency in a beautiful hillside fairy land called Noepoli.
www.palazzorinaldi.com
The artist’s residency is called, ‘Palazzorinaldi,’ and I really recommend it. Although I also selfishly want to keep it a secret so I can go there as the sole guest and be treated like a Principesse again - the one word in Italian I learnt from ‘Life is Beautiful.’
It means princess and I liked it being applied to me.
I wrote a few films there - one about the place, called by its name, Palazzorinaldi. It is also set there of course so it means I will have to return next year to film it!
Poor me.
I also rewrote two little shorts about my love for Fiodor. The hills were alive with clarity and inspiration - I saw again the purpose of art - to weave meaning into the world where there is confusion and chaos… to do more than hold the mirror up… to shed light on the road..
Have plans to make these films during the year under the title of the artistic company, ‘Cabaret of Pearls’. One of the films is set in the spiegeltent so don’t be surprised if you see me around the festival this year, followed by cameras again. You know this is how I feel most at home in the world.
And on the subject of Spiegeltents, if you remember, it was in a spiegeltent, that Fiodor and I, first met. What a dazzling cinematic climactic event!!
Speaking of festivals, as you will be able to see from my home page, I I am going to be performing three shows at the famous Electric Picnic 2009! It’s part of ‘The Body and Soul,’ section of that enormous tinker’s wedding on wheels.. Kim V Porcelli is going to accompany me on cello for two of the dates, the 4th and 5th… And we are cutting a special once off voice and cello album for that event.
Cabaret Gold!
Also, I have been asked to mc CRASH TEST CABARET, a show by Emma Pearson, in this year’s FRINGE THEATRE FESTIVAL!! This will be held in the basement of FILMBASE. Of course as a Cabaret Buddhist spiritualist who believes in healing from the dungeon up, this is splendidly portentous for me in a year set to be full of films…
Most importantly, I am still writing the big script… And it’s making a better person of me… very humbling theme, character, purpose… I have had to write so much and let go so much, draft three… and I plod on..
But I have begun a habit of writing late into the night, after trips to the sea to look at the moon and stars, to listen to the waves of my beautiful home strand…
I returned to Bray after Noepoli, Agropoli, Paestum where I saw Greek wonders of the world…
And Bray, dear friends, is as beautiful as anywhere you can go… And the night sea and mountains speak to me - and I come home to write fuelled with film visions…
Life is beautiful, Principesse!!
