FILMS | SCRIPTS | TV CONTENT | PRE-PRODUCTION | PLAYS | ONLINE BOOKS | AUDIO BOOKS/PODCASTS | ESSAYS
FILMS
Same old same old? Not here. These stylish short films do not use sensationalism to try to stimulate you …
A short exploration of the dramaturgy behind each piece will be included. For thinking film lovers, this stuff.
What can you do cinematically with a French poem?
What did women do in theatre in the time of Elizabeth? I mean, they must have done something, right? (Meet “Nell!”)
Can a dark surreal saloon drama turn on a dime into a funny farce? Happens in life everyday, why not in film?
What might have a chat between silent film star Buster Keaton and Irish playwright Samuel Beckett been like? (script by Don Nigro)
What might an urban film made by an abstract painter look like?
(all drawings that follow by Matthew Trupia)
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To Paint the Portrait of a Bird
Poetry in motion as a painter tries to capture life … a living thing … a bird … on canvas.
(35 mm rendering of the cherished French poem by Jacques Prevert, also responsible for the great 1945 film, “Children of Paradise.” 15 mins.)
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Dinner on the Riviera
Four short urban pieces by T.D. White woven into a jazz-like construction: the title piece, “Amen,” “Ex and the City” and “No Menus Please.” (more Braque than Vermeer here!)
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Last Licks
As Karl Marks so antithetically once said: “History repeats itself. First as tragedy; second as farce.” A dark surreal drama turns on a dime into an Emergency Room farce. From a feature script of the same name, this is the transition scene.
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A Long Leash
Love in the neighborhood sours when day drinker Jay and his dog with no name are betrayed by Janet from no other planet … a look at the principle of freedom on a local level: how much is too much? #amanandhisdog #lovestory
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Will at Work
Back stage with the Bard at the new 1599 Globe Theater as his new play, “The Life of Henry V,” gets its first reading by Thomas Pope, Richard Armin … and, shockingly, “Nell,” the peasant costume seamstress, who reads the famous “dirty” French scene (Act III, scene IV) with aplomb and art.
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Choke Artists
A different kind of PSA. Jill, a popular vocalist, is chatting about the possibility of a risky career move with her agent Celia over some fries from France when something gets caught in her instrument.
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Banana Man
A film based on a play about the making of “FILM,” the only movie ever made by Samuel Beckett featuring Buster Keaton as man who wants to escape perception, even from himself.
SCRIPTS
For press kits and information regarding rights and options to the following feature film scripts contact T.D. White, Loose Moon Productions, Inc., at loosemoonfilms@gmail.com.
MURDER BY WORD OF MOUTH. The profound predictable effects of verbal abuse on the young, with a positive climactic catharsis.
LAST LICKS. As Karl Marx so antithetically said, “History repeats itself. First as tragedy, second as farce.”
TV CONTENT
Twyla Morgan, C.S.A., four episode limited series
The Dream Catcher, five episode limited series
PRE-PRODUCTION
MOON IN A DEWDROP, Official Selection of 2022 New York Script Awards. A Zen student is breaking his brain trying to square the circle. Aha. (Short film, B & W. Think Kurosawa).
SLUGGER ANN’S. A couple of knockabout local bar hoppers run into some surprising buried talent.
THE REAL STARS, a feature length compilation of our urban short films, including “Filet of Sole,” “Slugger Ann’s,” “Money Laundering,” “Free Parking,” “Atomic Pete,” “Charity,” “Dinner on the Riviera,” “Last Licks,” “Choke Artists.”
PLAYS
For information regarding production rights to the following plays, please contact T.D. White, Loose Moon Productions, Inc. at loosemoonfilms@gmail.com.
Faure or Ravel?, 10 mins.
…. an old man and his phlebotomist. “The works.”
Puck ‘n Parrot, 10 mins.
A veterinarian analyzes the domestic relationship between a parrot and a pug.
Melpomene, 10 mins.
How Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho” may have come into being.
“Rouzka” (The Mask), 15 mins.
A testy international dialogue between an airline passenger and a Czech flight attendant.
Tempest in a Teapot, 5-Act musical (minimum consideration $50,000)
The late “romance” by William Shakespeare has been turned here into an entertaining post-modern direction where anything goes! Rocket ship commercial potential.
Tin Pan Alley, 2-act musical
1930’s. Act One takes place in the office of a sheet music publisher in what is now NYC’s Flower District. Act Two, a farm in Nebraska on New Year’s Eve.
Last Licks, Part II, 20 mins.
After young Frank dies from his wounds, a farce emerges in a NYC E.R.
Murder by Word of Mouth, 40 mins.
What would seem to be flashbacks from Tom’s early life becomes suddenly cathartic, and we mean that in a good way.
THE DREAM CATCHER. From the novel, “The Lady and the Lion” (story available in paperback, $10). “If one would know the heart and mind of America, one should learn baseball.” – Jacques Barzun, French-born historian (1907-2012).
ONLINE BOOKS
WET MONEY, $2.95 (also in kindle form at amazon.com)
The title recalls a time before point of sale touch screens, when coins and cash lay scattered all over our local bars.
These six stories were written by a guy who tended bar in the West Village for over 30 years.
They are not drunk stories. They are about some very singular people and events.
“The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance”
When you talk about stand up guys … you gotta talk about Sherman Simpson.
“Hellzapoppin’”
… like a lion dead in the desert.
“Free Parking”
It all seemed like some kind of spiritual thing that after he died all this would happen.
“Terry”
And her father said “oh no, Terry, we don’t do it like that. We do it like this.” And he smacked down two shot glasses on a small pink formica table in one of Hell’s small kitchens …
“The Good Old Days”
“When he awoke he knew the day would be like no other.”
“A Long Leash”
Long leash, short story, about a dog with no name and the principle of freedom. How much is too much?
MENTAL MONEY, or “Where the Eastern Mind Meets the Western Word,” $ 2.95 (also in kindle form at amazon.com)
Rich writing; pure prose; three poems; chewing on language: lingua gratia lingua.
“Heaven on Aries”
… not the mannered reverence of civilization’s sacraments here, instead the scent and mood and certain tone of truly sacred time.
“Nature Abhors a Vacuum”
… the ensuing union would be anything but romantic.
“Syllogism and Solution of a Koan”
… and the answer is …
“The Koan”
Neh.
“The Old Man and the Tree”
“You know,” she said, “he does look kind of dignified.”
Three Poems: “End Leaf,” “Life Leaves,” “Perpetual Notion”
AUDIO BOOKS/PODCASTS
“It’s Not Your Fault” by Sam Soberman, 50 mins, $2.50.
The real truth about alcoholism, and the remedy.
Narrated by T.D. White
EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION, with Niccolo Machiavelli. Turnabout is fair play!
WILL AT WORK with The Lord Chamberlain’s Men, with William Shakespeare. Back stage with the Bard at the new Globe, 1599.
ESSAYS
MY WORD: A BOHEMIAN MUSEUM, short essays, $2.00
Many of these short pieces were conceived while walking the wondrous streets of Prague with my Czech-born wife Tatjana. It's a collection I build while sitting in cafes spaced out and sipping cappuccino while Tat is chatting in Czech with her friends.
Suggest you download and save, then read each piece as if you were in a museum passing by the paintings one by one. Some may make you linger; some you might pass by (some oleo, some butter).
FROM THE DRY, CRACKED INKWELL OF THE QUIVERING ARCHER, contemporary commentary, $1.00
Should you shut up when you see absurdity staring you down? A cranky old curmudgeon speaks out.
LAST WORDS, $1.00
Tombstone etchings.
OBSERVATIONS AND OPINIONS ON THE OPUS OF OTHERS, $1.00
Terse interpretations of Beckett’s “Godot,” Ionesco’s “Exit the King,” Manet’s “Olympia.” What were they trying to illustrate or say with their work?
ON PASSION IN BASEBALL, $1.00
A.D.D., and the costs of micromanagement.