{"id":5829,"date":"2014-02-22T20:46:41","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T20:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peakepro.com\/?p=5829"},"modified":"2014-12-07T11:45:36","modified_gmt":"2014-12-07T11:45:36","slug":"snowblindness-film-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/archives\/5829-snowblindness-film-poem.html","title":{"rendered":"Snowblindness (Film-Poem)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"max-width: 960px;\">\n<!-- iframe plugin v.4.5 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/87357326\" width=\"100%\" height=\"540\" frameborder=\"0\" 0=\"webkitAllowFullScreen\" 1=\"mozallowfullscreen\" 2=\"allowFullScreen\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<noframes><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/87357326\">Click here to watch the video<\/a><\/noframes>\n<h3>Snowblindness<\/h3>\n<p>It is hard to know how I got here,<br \/>\nnow that we cut the sled dogs loose,<br \/>\nand went our separate ways for help,<br \/>\nhard as pack ice in the footsteps<br \/>\nI crunch into, wondering whose they are,<br \/>\nfollowing a herd of anxious commuters<br \/>\ndoubtless on their way to warmth,<br \/>\nraising what look like pitch forks<br \/>\nagainst the white buildings ahead,<br \/>\ntheir black tongues crying, &#8220;Murder&#8221;<br \/>\nas I laugh into the snow-licked wind,<br \/>\nglad not to be the foreman on that rig,<br \/>\nglad to see the thousand-pair kind eyes<br \/>\nblinking out in front of me, soft-nosed<br \/>\nwelcome party, parting ways as I approach<br \/>\nthe city centre, flushed and sweating,<br \/>\nunder this maniacal sun, I skip forward,<br \/>\nbreathing heavily, pulling off my clothes.<\/p>\n<h3>Process Notes<\/h3>\n<p>I found a film of reindeer in the <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/browse.php?field=subject&#038;mediatype=movies&#038;collection=35mmstockfootage\" target=\"_blank\">archive.org 35mm Stock Footage collection<\/a> and, after watching it several times, I began to develop a narrative about a man lost in the Arctic Circle. The poem came from there, followed by the video and effects editing and finally the music and sound effects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snowblindness It is hard to know how I got here, now that we cut the sled dogs loose, and went our separate ways for help, hard as pack ice in the footsteps I crunch into, wondering whose they are, following a herd of anxious commuters doubtless on their way to warmth, raising what look like &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/archives\/5829-snowblindness-film-poem.html\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Snowblindness (Film-Poem)<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5830,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1268,5,8,14],"tags":[831,248,893,894,895],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5829"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}