||8ve’s second collaborative film, ANTHOLOGY II, will screen on Thursday, August 2nd at 8 PM, at the Creative Alliance in Baltimore. Details at the Creative Alliance website and the Parallel Octave site. Here’s the trailer, by Melee, based on part of Gertrude Stein’s “Pigeons on the grass alas alas”:

FREE Film Screening: Parallel Octave presents ANTHOLOGY II, A Collaborative Short Film

It’s a music video! It’s a Greek chorus! It’s ANTHOLOGY II. For the second year running, the Baltimore-based chorus Parallel Octave has invited filmmakers to create short films based on recordings of poems. This year’s ANTHOLOGY II will feature animation, stop-motion and live action, both student and professional filmmakers from Los Angeles, Maryland, Minnesota, Utah, and Wisconsin, and the poetry of Emily Dickinson, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Yehuda Ha-Levi, T.S. Eliot, and many more. More info here. FREE!