Live from the POEMobile: Poems on Steam
Take a ride on the POEMobile as we project poetry onto steam rising from the depths of New York City.
City Lore founder Steve Zeitlin writes: "My friend and possibly distant cousin, Ariel Zeitlin, expressed the view of many of us when she quipped, 'You may be living over a hot air grate, but at least you’re in New York.' I’ve always been fascinated with the steam that billows out from the underground in New York, on and around which many homeless souls have found some cold winter warmth. To me it suggests that the hallowed ground beneath our New York City footsteps is bubbling and gurgling like a witches’ caldron, an orgy of passion or the fires of hell – mirroring the teeming life of the city above.
"But for Chris Jordan, who spends his time thinking and imagining and projecting light both from his luminous soul and the hi tech projectors he owns and thinks so much about, the steam from the streets was just another challenging surface to project upon.
"And for our poetry team –Bob Holman and Sahar Muradi and myself –the intermingling of words, light and steam was away to express the fleeting evanescence of life."
Ride with us in the POEMobile and watch it now before the steam disappears into the ether.
Filmed on February 3rd, 2018 at 70th and Madison, Manhattan
Sponsored by City Lore and Bowery Arts + Science
Projections and Initial Conception: Chris Jordan
Cinematography and Sound: Jake Rosenberg and Gretta Wilson
Producers: Steve Zeitlin, Bob Holman Sahar Muradi
Editors: Steve Zeitlin and Lee Eaton
Associate Producer: Jim Bergman
Poets:
Bob Holman
Kewulay Kamara
Annie Lanzillotto
Denize Lauture
Sahar Muradi
Smokestack Stakeout: Jake Rosenberg
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