The above is from the blog of my biographer, the writer and poet Luke Andreski…
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Luke Andreski’s climate change novel “Green Messiah”
August 3, 2012Video Competition
July 14, 2012An Interview with author Luke Andreski about the launch of the Dark Green Books Short Film and Video Competition
In Luke Andreski’s attractive home in Bristol, UK, we drink Earl Grey tea while gazing out over Redland Green park. We have been discussing the e-revolution in book publishing generally, but now we approach the subject of the Dark Green Books Short Film and Video Competition.
William T: Dark Green Books have recently launched a short film and video competition based on your work, offering $1000 in prizes.
Luke A: Yes. The Dark Green Books Short Film and Video Competition was launched on 1st June 2012 with the release of two short films by Gregory Metcalfe. These provocative films can be found on http://www.youtube.com/user/VideoAndFilmComp2012 and have already been extensively viewed and ‘liked’.
Can anyone enter the competition?
Given the sometimes controversial nature of my work we decided to restrict submissions to competitors aged eighteen or over. Other than that, the competition is free and open to anyone, amateur or professional, anywhere in the world.
What sort of submissions are you looking for?
We are looking for short films or videos which powerfully evoke the themes or sentiments expressed in my work. They must be films offering either impact or insight but which, in either case, are rooted in the piece of writing that the video-maker has chosen to reflect. The seventeen works covered by the competition are all available for download from www.lukeandreski.com but submissions can also be based on the free extracts available on my website and the free soundtracks available on Soundcloud (http://soundcloud.com/luke-andreski). Nine of the works are also available on Amazon.
Who will be judging the competition?
The judging panel will be announced in October. The panel will include a well-known novelist, a poet and a film-maker.
Will there be a shortlist?
There will be both a long list and a shortlist. Long listed submissions will be displayed on the Dark Green Books competition channel: www.youtube.com/user/VideoAndFilmComp2012. The long list will be announced on December 20th and the shortlist in January.
Is this competition effectively a notice board for your work?
An astute question, to which the answer is “Yes… but only in part…” Dark Green Books, the Limited Edition and eBook publisher of which you and I are amongst the co-founders, are hoping that not only will this competition bring new readers to my work but that it will also generate a number of unique and powerful videos which will be works of art in their own right – bringing new and promising video and film directors such as Gregory Metcalfe and Steve Le Mare into the public eye. We also see this as a template for future competitions based on more than one author.
And now to the prizes…
The prizes are $700.00 for the winning video, $200.00 for the runner up and $100.00 for the third best submission. Plus a number of free downloads from www.lukeandreski.com… I have always treasured the first cheque I ever received for my work for £50 – and one of the most enjoyable outcomes of this competition will be to hand people cheques which are almost more fun framed and hung on their studio walls than spent!
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We finish our tea, and then the discussion moves on to the conflict between economic wellbeing and the environment – a subject close to our hearts. ‘And your new book, which is all about this conflict?’ I ask. Luke looks pensive. ‘Progress is slow – but I hope to publish the next instalment of Green Messiah in August.’
Competition rules and submission guidelines for the Dark Green Books Short Film and Video Competition are available via shortfilmandvideoaward.wordpress.com.
The first instalment of Luke’s novel, Green Messiah, can be found at www.lukeandreski.com.
Ebb – A darkly compelling performance from author and poet Luke Andreski
June 21, 2012
Take a look at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IouPVuL6U0&feature=colike if you like poetry, irony or musings on the meaning of life…
Orphan – a short film by Gregory Metcalfe
May 30, 2012Gregory Metcalfe’s inaugural video for the Dark Green Books Short Film and Video Competition: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QaRQNSyJ8I&feature=colike.
William Tarkovsky – www.williamtarkovsky.com
“The” Youtube Video of the Day – The Occupy Guy
November 23, 2011Occupy!!
November 13, 2011The Book of New Creation: rebranding creationism as anti-capitalist environmentalism
XII
The time has come to be afraid
We are faced with a menace which we cannot avoid
Some creatures, knowing fear, take flight
Some creatures, knowing fear, fight
We are the ones who will fight
We will look upon our enemy with wide unblinking eyes
We are strong
We will overcome this menace that rushes towards us
We are strong
We will stand unbowed before the breaking of the wave
We are strong
We will not flinch beneath the falling blow
We are one
We will meet our enemy face to face
XIII
We are afraid
Yet we are willing to fight
We are afraid
Yet nothing can compel us to retreat
We are afraid
Yet here we stand, undaunted
For we are one
We will meet our enemy face to face
XIV
But who is this enemy?
What is this menace?
From where does it come?
XV
We are the menace
We are the enemy
The enemy is here, at our side
XXX
Service to humanity is our imperative. We are human. We will protect and serve humanity. Without this purpose our lives mean nothing. Service to our species and to our world is why we are. Service to our species and to our world is why we do what we must do. Without service we are pointless. Selfishness has leeched the meaning from our lives. Selfish motives die with the self
XXXI
We will fight for the interests of future generations – and our greatest weapon will be self-change. We will change ourselves and we will create our world anew. Our mission is the act of re-creation
XXXII
To be human is to create… We have that power… And we have the power to create a new world
XXXIII
How mighty are the armies and systems that stand before us! They are relentless in their appetite, in their pursuit of their self-interest. The banks and the governments, the multinationals and the conglomerates, despite all that has come to pass, despite corruption and recession, despite repossession and eviction, wallow in their power. Each day that they rule they reinforce their hold
XXXIV
How mighty an edifice will we need to defeat the polluters on the terms that they decree? An edifice no less mighty than are they
XXXV
How great an army will we need to destroy them? No less an army than the armies they already possess
XXXVI
We need no armies.
New Creation needs no armies
XXXVII
We will overcome our opponents from within. We will convert their instruments and those who govern them to a new path, to a path that gives them meaning, a path away from selfishness and greed
XXXVIII
Our weapon is self-change. We ask no sacrifice of rationality or sense. We hide behind no weasel words, no parable or myth. With eyes wide open we will show those who oppose us truth. Join us, we will say, and know joy. Join us, we will say, and know purpose. Join us and know fulfilment. We are the guardians of this world. Let the edifice that has enslaved you fall broken to the ground
XXXIX
We will protect and nurture our species. We will protect and nurture the species upon which the balance of nature and the existence of our species depends. We will protect and nurture the earth upon which we all depend
XL
No armies, no laws, no prejudices, no rules will stop us. Our cause is just. Our cause is all-powerful. We shall prevail
XLI
The age of reason and imaginationwill replace the age of selfishness and greed. The wind and the tide, gravity and light, will power our society. Sailing ships, built by the best of human science, will once again carry cargo across our seas. We will wrest control of our technology from the power-hungry and the greedy and create a new world
Trust
XLII
Trust not your politicians
Trust not the hierarchies of your religions
Trust not the smiles of your celebrities
Trust not the guile of your businessmen
Trust not the seductions of your gurus
XLIII
Trust not your pundits, your sermonisers, your naysayers, your yeasayers, your experts, your savants, your spokesmen, your preachers
XLIV
Trust not those who cry out for your trust
XLV
Trust in the life that flows within you
Trust in the life that you share
with all living creatures
whose brief moment of existence
is imbued with the purpose
of which we all are part
XLVI
Trust in the connection that you share
with the ecstasy and the pain of all living things
XLVII
Trust in empathy
Trust in compassion
Trust in kindness
Trust in love
From The Book of New Creation, the writings of William Tarkovsky compiled by Luke Andreski
© 2011 Luke Andreski and William Tarkovsky. All rights reserved.
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