H.O.M.E. Reel
This happy, glitzy piece is a reel I created for The House of Mercado, a costume design house and performance troupe. Known best for working with Jonathan Peters, this group makes events in NYC and around the globe beyond fantastic. Peace, Melissa Share on FacebookTweet Read More
Virtue & Truth Are Never Convenient
Durga: Avenging Goddess, Nurturing Mother But the Woman that God gave him, every fibre of her frame Proves her launched for one sole issue, armed and engined for the same, And to serve that single issue, lest the generations fail, The female of the species must be deadlier than the male. She who faces Death by torture for each life beneath her breast May not deal in doubt or pity – must not swerve for fact or jest. These be purely male diversions... Read More
DisAmour
This short piece was done for the Neruda Project, celebrating Neruda’s 100th birthday. Not sure how far the project has progressed. This piece reflects my mood about the world in 2003. Peace, Melissa Share on FacebookTweet Read More
Filmmaking – The Message & The Aftermath
Williamsburg Graf – photo by M. Ulto, 2006 To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world-that I am able to change it in positive ways. Maxine Hong Kingston One does not find oneself by pursuing one’s self, but on the contrary by pursuing something else and learning through discipline or routine who one is and wants to be. May Sarton As a filmmaker, particularly a documentary... Read More
Get Up, Get Moving
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing at all. Helen Keller Change is the most constant thing on this planet. Change, painful and abrupt, like war. Change, slow and consistent, like the movement of glaciers. Change, standard and complete, like life, like death, like birth. Should we shake and freeze in the face of it? Or glide, untouched, into the future, without looking back? Can... Read More
On The Grind
I edited this trailer a couple weeks ago. Enjoy this flavor of On The Grind – the DVD is available for order here. Share on FacebookTweet Read More
Snakes In Suits and In Power
Talk as much philosophy as you like, worship as many gods as you please, observe ceremonies and sing devotional hymns, but liberation will never come, even after a hundred eons, without realizing the Oneness. Sankara As bombs drop, situations escalate, conflicts continue and suffering goes unchecked, there is something deeper missing in all the bluster and self-righteous rage. Read More Share on FacebookTweet Read More
Activism Under Corporate Attack
Ross Irivine – PR Anti-Activist Flack The below is an article forwarded to me by friends. Mr. Ross Irvine, a self-proclaimed Anti-Activist Activist, has disturbing reach into the world stage of corporate responsibility. GM WATCH daily http://www.gmwatch.org — A version of this article was first commissioned by an Australian broadsheet newspaper and then killed. QUOTES: “Once these ideas were at the edge of sanity, now they’re... Read More
Why I Create – Reactions to “The Art of Love & Struggle”
Still from The Art of Love & Struggle – Nemesis When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us? Pam Brown Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow. Benjamin Disraeli The below email is from my friend Wendy, living in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. She held a screening of “The Art of Love & Struggle recently, and this is the fantastic feedback: Hi Melissa, Well I showed the art of love... Read More
