This latest movie i've done combines my art, and poetry, with a recording i did many years ago.
This recording was done in the style of The Door's, "Celebration Of The Lizard." To accomplish what I had in mind, I used a Casio Digital keyboard that I received one year for Christmas, with all the different instrument settings on it, and all the various musical rhythms as well. To start out, I selected Bossanova beat, and slowed the tempo way down. Then I programmed the instrument setting for harpsichord, and played the notes, holding each one down, to get a certain lingering effect, while recording it on my tape deck. I then went back, and played the first recording, and over that I recited this poem, and set the instrument for Oboe, then I played that at the same time, while recording both of them together, on a second tape deck. I was trying to give this poem an atmosphere of ancientness.
This movie is the culmination of years of writing and painting, working towards something greater, which would combine all my talents into a single monumental undertaking. Writing, painting and music all find their ultimate expression in cinema, and eventually i think that's where any artist or writer will be able to most utilize their talents, and such is the case with me.
I've often thought I could use the poem itself, as the basis for starting a new type of civilization. Complete with its own alphabet, and language, a new form of government, with its own history and mythology and its own unique set of legendary people who helped bring this new culture into being. I may still do it. The possibilities are endless.
I am posting the entire text of the poem below, so that if you have any trouble at all hearing the recording, then you can use what i've written as a guide.
So, here it is. I hope you enjoy my movie, and if you do, then please leave me some comments. I need to get some feedback on this and see how it measures up to everything else that's posted on here daily.
Thanks everyone.
ANCIENT SOUL'S SEDUCTION
Shhhhh......listen
I hear them
The Elder gods
They are calling us.
Their voices are soft
Whispering silently
Thru the lush swaying trees.
Gliding
On the warm breath
Of the western breeze.
They beckon us.
Come they say
Let us run thru the sweet fragrant fields
Until we reach once again the sacred forests
Where you shall build for us brilliant temples as in the old days.
And you shall sacrifice to us
The beautiful reptiles
That you find there.
Mixing their blood
With the blood of the vine
We will bless your offering
And you shall prosper.
You will sing aloud our praises
Once again
After two thousand years.
Your children
They will say the ancient chants
Study again the ancient scrolls.
Celebrate the birth
Of the moonchild.
We will lead you again
Into the Garden of the Sun.
Where you shall tread once more
The shining paths of your fathers
And drink from the rich life-giving streams
Of the Black Lake.
We will bring you into the Valley of the Rains
Where you shall live and worship us there
According to the ancient ways.
You shall dwell in peace
With the New Creatures
And walk hand in hand
With your brother
Until the end of your days
When you shall come at last
To live with us
In the sacred glades
Forever.
Come my children
To the past.
For we have seen the future
And it holds nothing
But destruction and chaos.
The life we offer thee
Holds timeless dreams
Not yet discovered
Hidden mysteries
Will be uncovered.
Come my children
For the time is ripe
And our time grows short.
We must leave you now
Not to return again
Until the silent hush of winter's purity
Is broken
By the sorrowing tears
Of the new spring.
The choice is yours my children
Enter the door to the other side
Take your freedom in sudden stride.
We await
Your arrival
With golden survival
On the shores that are lapped
By destiny's tides. (echo)
Dwayne Pagnotto/Copyright© 2006 All Rights Reserved.
If you wish to see some more of my artwork, read some stories i wrote, and check out my poems, then please click on the link below and it'll take you to my own personal website. But please don't wait too long. my website expires on July 27th. After that, it'll be gone for good.
www.princeofatlantis.com
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