Tomorrow by Solipse (2022)

Tomorrow / Solipse / Official Music Video (2022)

Total run time: 3:08 / HD video & archival film / single-channel / 2022

Official music video for "Tomorrow" by Solipse from The News Unfit

Directed by Christopher Wiersema

L'amore cieco di Severina (Rina's Blind Love) (2021)

Rina's Blind Love (L'amore cieco di Severina) (2021)

Total run time: 14:42 / HD video / single-channel / 2021

An experimental documentary film by Christopher Wiersema -- following Rina Pullia, the filmmaker's grandmother, as she remembers her family and youth in Carbonara di Bari, Italy and Chicago, Illinois -- stories of falling in love and caregiving for her late husband Angelo, his blindness and health, and visits the house she formerly owned with him in Westchester, Illinois.

Music by Unheard Music Concepts and Christopher Wiersema

Black Oak Savannas by Long Nights Moon (2020)

"Black Oak Savannas" by Long Nights Moon (Official Music Video)

Total run time: 2:42 / archival film / single-channel / 2020

Album: Long Nights Moon "Sally" / Director: Christopher Wiersema / The Bicycle Day Recording Co.

Source: Internet Archive

[Amateur film: Chicago World's Fair (Century of Progress Exhibition), New York City, Washington, D.C., Portland, Maine 1933/1934]

Ghazal for Amerika Redux

16mm optically printed film, a dream-walk through Chicago, moments of nature and sky, commerce and capital, play on static, city movement, light, and color. Stuck in a revolving doorway of a Bank of America. Music produced by Brian Cox and Christopher Wiersema.

"A ghazal may be understood as a poetic expression of both the pain of loss or separation and the beauty of love in spite of that pain." -Poetry Foundation

2017 Redux / Original 16mm film by Christopher Wiersema: Ghazal for Amerika (2008)

Le garçon lit

2016 / Produced by Christopher Wiersema

Screened at Faux Faux Film Festival in Portland, Oregon / 2018

Love song from a Vermont summer garden

Angels don't drop bombs

2017 / Produced by Christopher Wiersema

In Certain Valleys, Woolgathering

2016 / Produced by Christopher Wiersema

Nonna, Ho Fame

2012 / Produced by Christopher Wiersema / Screened at ID/Identies in Istanbul, Turkey / 2012

Break a Thick Mug

2012 / Produced by Christopher Wiersema

Collaboration with poet and artist Joe Bly, based in San Francisco, and poet Tyler Flynn Dorholt, based in New York City

Screened at Portland Experimental Film Festival in Portland, Oregon / 2012

Peace Scare

2008 / Produced by Christopher Wiersema

Winter commute between Chicago and its western suburbs. Quiet boredom culminates in a small scuffle at an anti-war protest in Chicago. Screened at The New Newness: A Video Exhibition of Work by Emerging Chicago Media Makers at The Nightingale Theater.

Ghazal for Amerika

2008 / Produced by Christopher Wiersema / 16mm Optical Printing Independent Study

16mm optically printed film, a dream-walk through Chicago, moments of nature and sky, commerce and capital, play on static, city movement, light, and color. Stuck in a revolving door way of a Bank of America.

“A ghazal may be understood as a poetic expression of both the pain of loss or separation and the beauty of love in spite of that pain." -Poetry Foundation

Everything You've Ever Known "Carajo Columbus Day" [Official Music Video]

Everything You've Ever Known "Carajo Columbus Day"

from "King of What​?​" EP

https://bicycledayrecording.bandcamp.com/album/everything-youve-ever-known-king-of-what-ep

2016 / Produced by Christopher Wiersema

Found footage collage / 2011 NYC Occupy Wall Street / 2003 Chicago protests against the War in Iraq

TRE: The youth is very often disturbed by the future

TRE: La gioventu e disturbato molto spesso del futuro / The youth is very often disturbed by the future

2006/2007

16mm

Film by Christopher Wiersema

Music by Michael Smeraglia

Poetry by Joe Bly

Translation by Rina Pullia

Tomorrow by Solipse (2022)
L'amore cieco di Severina (Rina's Blind Love) (2021)
Black Oak Savannas by Long Nights Moon (2020)
Ghazal for Amerika Redux
Le garçon lit
Angels don't drop bombs
In Certain Valleys, Woolgathering
Nonna, Ho Fame
Break a Thick Mug
Peace Scare
Ghazal for Amerika
Everything You've Ever Known "Carajo Columbus Day" [Official Music Video]
TRE: The youth is very often disturbed by the future
Tomorrow by Solipse (2022)

Tomorrow / Solipse / Official Music Video (2022)

Total run time: 3:08 / HD video & archival film / single-channel / 2022

Official music video for "Tomorrow" by Solipse from The News Unfit

Directed by Christopher Wiersema

L'amore cieco di Severina (Rina's Blind Love) (2021)

Rina's Blind Love (L'amore cieco di Severina) (2021)

Total run time: 14:42 / HD video / single-channel / 2021

An experimental documentary film by Christopher Wiersema -- following Rina Pullia, the filmmaker's grandmother, as she remembers her family and youth in Carbonara di Bari, Italy and Chicago, Illinois -- stories of falling in love and caregiving for her late husband Angelo, his blindness and health, and visits the house she formerly owned with him in Westchester, Illinois.

Music by Unheard Music Concepts and Christopher Wiersema

Black Oak Savannas by Long Nights Moon (2020)

"Black Oak Savannas" by Long Nights Moon (Official Music Video)

Total run time: 2:42 / archival film / single-channel / 2020

Album: Long Nights Moon "Sally" / Director: Christopher Wiersema / The Bicycle Day Recording Co.

Source: Internet Archive

[Amateur film: Chicago World's Fair (Century of Progress Exhibition), New York City, Washington, D.C., Portland, Maine 1933/1934]

Ghazal for Amerika Redux

16mm optically printed film, a dream-walk through Chicago, moments of nature and sky, commerce and capital, play on static, city movement, light, and color. Stuck in a revolving doorway of a Bank of America. Music produced by Brian Cox and Christopher Wiersema.

"A ghazal may be understood as a poetic expression of both the pain of loss or separation and the beauty of love in spite of that pain." -Poetry Foundation

2017 Redux / Original 16mm film by Christopher Wiersema: Ghazal for Amerika (2008)

Le garçon lit

2016 / Produced by Christopher Wiersema

Screened at Faux Faux Film Festival in Portland, Oregon / 2018

Love song from a Vermont summer garden

Angels don't drop bombs

2017 / Produced by Christopher Wiersema

In Certain Valleys, Woolgathering

2016 / Produced by Christopher Wiersema

Nonna, Ho Fame

2012 / Produced by Christopher Wiersema / Screened at ID/Identies in Istanbul, Turkey / 2012

Break a Thick Mug

2012 / Produced by Christopher Wiersema

Collaboration with poet and artist Joe Bly, based in San Francisco, and poet Tyler Flynn Dorholt, based in New York City

Screened at Portland Experimental Film Festival in Portland, Oregon / 2012

Peace Scare

2008 / Produced by Christopher Wiersema

Winter commute between Chicago and its western suburbs. Quiet boredom culminates in a small scuffle at an anti-war protest in Chicago. Screened at The New Newness: A Video Exhibition of Work by Emerging Chicago Media Makers at The Nightingale Theater.

Ghazal for Amerika

2008 / Produced by Christopher Wiersema / 16mm Optical Printing Independent Study

16mm optically printed film, a dream-walk through Chicago, moments of nature and sky, commerce and capital, play on static, city movement, light, and color. Stuck in a revolving door way of a Bank of America.

“A ghazal may be understood as a poetic expression of both the pain of loss or separation and the beauty of love in spite of that pain." -Poetry Foundation

Everything You've Ever Known "Carajo Columbus Day" [Official Music Video]

Everything You've Ever Known "Carajo Columbus Day"

from "King of What​?​" EP

https://bicycledayrecording.bandcamp.com/album/everything-youve-ever-known-king-of-what-ep

2016 / Produced by Christopher Wiersema

Found footage collage / 2011 NYC Occupy Wall Street / 2003 Chicago protests against the War in Iraq

TRE: The youth is very often disturbed by the future

TRE: La gioventu e disturbato molto spesso del futuro / The youth is very often disturbed by the future

2006/2007

16mm

Film by Christopher Wiersema

Music by Michael Smeraglia

Poetry by Joe Bly

Translation by Rina Pullia

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