Poetry. Multimedia. This follow-up to Downing's 2005 collection DARK BRANDON is the filmic flip-side of that book's dizzying convergence of visual culture and syntactic shock. Drawing on 1960s Bollywood, 1980s Public Access poetry television, poorly rendered nature-documentary graphics, and other heights (and depths) of the moving image, these films, collected here, remain nothing less than poetry. "It is all change in the two Hollywood Go-Go Bars on the top floor in Nana Plaza. Wow, DARK BRANDON has the lush look and feel of Circus Disco Arena Food--to speak of a golden age mash-up mastermind, well that's what I'm doing. His hobbies were some of our best-kempt secretions--but now The Pleasuredome is yours"--Rod Smith. "I would banish vipers, wolves, and weak-wristed circle jerkers for DARK BRANDON"--Anne Boyer. "The Flarf contingent are cutting, pasting and overdubbing Bollywood movies. Man, how cool and with-it is that?! It's been a long time since I found it necessary to pay attention to a poetry movement. Now, I will"--Bruce Sterling.

Author Hometown: NEW YORK, NY USA



About the author: Brandon Downing is a videomaker, visual artist, and writer, originally from the San Francisco Bay Area. Since 2000, he has lived in New York City, where he works as an exhibit designer and writer. His poetry collections include THE SHIRT WEAPON and DARK BRANDON. An online gallery of much of his recent photographic work can be seen at www.brandondowning.org. A feature-length DVD collection of recent video works, DARK BRANDON//ETERNAL CLASSICS, was released in 2007.