i come from the fire city
Poem by Eve L. Ewing
i come from the fire city / fire came and licked up our houses, lapped them up like they were nothing / drank them like the last dribbling water from a concrete fountain / the spigot is too hot to touch with your lips be careful / fire kissed us and laughed / and even now the rust climbs the walls, red ivy / iron fire and the brick blossoms florid / red like stolen lipstick ground down to a small flat earth / stand on any corner of the fire city, look west to death / the red sun eats the bungalows / the fire city children watch with their fingers in their mouths / to savor the flaming hots or hot flamins or hot crunchy curls or hot chips / they open the fire hydrants in the fire city and lay dollar store boats in the gutters / warrior funeral pyres unlit
Credits
Produced and Directed by
Daniel Daly
Executive Producers
Todd Boss
Egg Creative
Claire McGirr
Spoken by and Starring
Khadija Shari
Director of Photography
Josh Farmelo
Scenario
Daniel Daly
First Assistant Director
Kashi Somers
First Assistant Camera
Tsyen Shen
Production Assistants
Sanjana Sekhar
Nellie Stokeld
Editor
Daniel Daly
Film Processing
Kodak, Astoria
Film Scanning
Metropolis Post
Audio Finishing
Egg Creative
Future Perfect
Voiceover Engineer
Victor Magro
Producer
Nargis Sheerazie
Crayon
Colorist
Daniel Stonehouse
Executive Producer
Gabe Russo
Cylinder Three Cylinder Seven Cylinder Eight
Written, produced and performed by Christ Zabriskie
Licensed under creative commons 4.0 international (CC by 4.0)
Remixed for this film by Daniel Daly
Special Thanks to
Anne Hubbell and Tony Landano at Kodak
Daisy and John at the National Parks Service
Sarah at Metropolis Post
Isabella Lebovitz
Matthew McGerrin
Peter Novosel
Erin Wahed
Shirleyann Daly
“I come from the fire city”. Poem by Eve L. Ewing. ©2017 Eve L. Ewing. Used with permission. From The Electric Arches (Haymarket Books, 2017)
Screenings
2018
Hollywood Shorts Film Festival
Motionpoems Premiere New York
Motionpoems Premiere Los Angeles
Raindance Film Festival
2019
Motionpoems Premiere Dublin
