Short Summary
My name is Endre Farkas. I am a poet, playwright and novelist. I have been
writing since the 1970s and have had ten books published, three plays produced and
have made four videopoems. My books have been nominated for prizes and I have won
the CBC “Face-Off” (Quebec) twice. I have had my work translated into French,
Spanish, Turkish, Slovenian and Hungarian. My novel Never, Again will be published in 2016. I have toured, read and performed across Canada, the USA, Europe and South America.
Martin Reisch is a very accomplished videographer. He and I collaborated on Blood is Blood, which won first prize at the Zebra Berlin International Poetry Film Festival in 2012 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5HqtG4x32w)&nb... Language Cops, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXc4NS17tfw)&nb... was selected for general viewing at the Zebra Berlin International Poetry Film Festival in 2014.
Eric Davis & Katherine Turnbull are both
outstanding actors (check out their CVs) with very strong theatre, film and
television credentials.
The original “poem” came to me as I was walking through Chinatown on a late, sweltering, summer night. I passed
this greasy little spoon, Chinese Chop Suey joint, and had a déja-vu that
murders had been committed there. It could have been the summer heat and the fact
that I was reading a lot of Raymond Chandler: Farewell My Lovely, The Long Goodbye, High Window, etc. I wrote the
poem in one sitting and spent about two years revising it. At first I wasn’t sure what
it was about but something told me that it was worth doing. Love, Grace, Poetry and the creative process
are some themes I recognized in it.
I always thought that it had a theatrical element to
it, with characters, dialogue and a mystery to be solved. I adapted it for
performances and presented as a solo and two person performance piece at art galleries across Canada.
I have always been interested in the performative elements of poetry and have explored the theatre of poetry over the years. I have also explored the "videopoem" and want to push further into this area.
The funding of Murders in the Welcome Café will allow me to do this. Funding will allow me to pay the actors, videographer and musicians an almost fair wage and to rent studio time and equipment.
If we do not reach our goal, we will use the accumulated funds to pay the participants proportionally. I will not take any money until the goal is reached.
Budget:
a.
Actors (2) $1500.00
b.
Videographer/editor $1500.00
c.
Composer $500.00
d.
Studio Rental $500.00
e.
Equipment Rental $500.00
Total $4000.00
Timeline:
a.
Voice over recording in July
b.
Shooting in July 2015
c.
Rerecording voice (extra or new stuff) September 2015
d.
Music in
October-November 2015
e.
Editing December-February 2015-2016
f.
Finish March 2016
