It's been two years since this project kicked off and, despite the uncertainty that looms over this 2020, our last episode of Bloomers is out now, bringing this series of short films to a happy end.
The picture above was taken in the summer of 2018 at Walt Whitman's Birthplace on Long Island, a location that set Bloomers in motion, as this was our first stop researching the history of the poet.
It was in February of this year, a few weeks before lockdown, that our team paid a visit to the poet's grave in Camden, New Jersey. In retrospective, this visit became--in the editing process--key to the imagery Whitman had used in the poem central to our series: "Live Oak, with Moss." The results of which appear in episode IV.
But what connects our project to Whitman's work transcends our limited experience of life, or our fears of death. We, too, celebrate nature, and through the bodies and stories of the men in our cast, we establish ways to achieve that.
We hope you dig where this journey has taken us.
