Jefferson Everest Crawford

"It is undone business I speak of, this morning, with the sea stretching out from my feet." - Charles Olson, 'Maximus Poems'

For hope in the face of resistance. For the 20,000 communards executed at the Paris Commune on May 28, 1871. Filmed at Bread and Puppet theater in Glover, Vermont on a spring afternoon 150 years later.

This tortoise is very sleepy. He lives at Gatorland, near Orlando, Florida.

observations of the wood people

Amazon drivers in Palmdale, CA are on strike against Amazon's unfair labor practices, unsafe jobs, and low pay. NYC Teamsters show solidarity and ask for justice, now!

Short film on the River of time.

"It is undone business I speak of, this morning, with the sea stretching out from my feet." - Charles Olson, 'Maximus Poems'

For hope in the face of resistance. For the 20,000 communards executed at the Paris Commune on May 28, 1871. Filmed at Bread and Puppet theater in Glover, Vermont on a spring afternoon 150 years later.

This tortoise is very sleepy. He lives at Gatorland, near Orlando, Florida.

observations of the wood people

Amazon drivers in Palmdale, CA are on strike against Amazon's unfair labor practices, unsafe jobs, and low pay. NYC Teamsters show solidarity and ask for justice, now!

Short film on the River of time.

A song of the crab apple tree

an observation on a theme from Ethan WL

Landscapes are permeable, impermanent. They are hallucinations of literature, manifestations of human manipulation. Like the pixel, they are degraded, rearranged, forgotten. “Eclogues” is an expression of landscape in the purest principles of digital image-making: duration, practicality, limitation. Shot in 2020 in Strafford, Vermont.

The objects found inside the house seemed of little historical importance - two diaries. But taken together, they form a fantastical little story… and so a filmmaker finds herself caught between fiction and memory, believing in impossibilities.

The objects found inside the house seemed of little historical importance - two diaries. But taken together, they form a fantastical little story… and so a filmmaker finds herself caught between fiction and memory, believing in impossibilities.

'Home Away From Home' is a short documentary about the efforts of educators in the Solu-Khumbu Valley (Sagarmatha/Everest Region of Nepal) to create longterm systems of education for Sherpa children. Generations of Sherpa people have not had formal education. Tsedam Sherpa and others are working to change that forever.

"...then he saw a tree with white fruit. This sweet fruit made those who ate it happy..." Casting out along rivers of time, evoking the souls surrounding the obelisk itself, the camera traces several stories in two distinct phases...

A place is an obelisk, reaching to the sky; down again to a point in the ground. Not a solid point, but a hesitant, mysterious one (some say always shifting). Ripples of life arch out from its base in unexpected ways. The obelisk series is an informal collecting of time and place haphazardly documented by two perambulating filmmakers.

on the ground observations of the 2023 WGA strike in New York City

An observation

A detour featuring the Central Vermont railroad, West Hartford, rt. 89, "disastrous train wreck," and VA cutoff bridges along the White River as it runs from Sharon, Vermont to White River Junction, where it meets the Connecticut River.

Kinetoscopic Record of a Lick

Scenes along the final stretch of the Ompompanoosuc river that flows through the White River Valley of Vermont.

Rose Hobart haunts the cinema.

Archival footage edited according to the randomized reinterpretation of a piece by Camille Saint-Saëns, played on theremin

for Dorville Finkle (1927-2020) and his memory

What Else Can I Buy You With?

A place is an obelisk, reaching to the sky; down again to a point in the ground. Not a solid point, but a hesitant, mysterious one (some say always shifting). Ripples of life arch out from its base in unexpected ways. The obelisk series is an informal collecting of time and place haphazardly documented by two perambulating filmmakers.

Filming Confluence (2019)

After a piece by Al Razutis

A view of the common looking north

We were both moving to new places. Quinn to Los Angeles, myself to New York. We were on a rare holiday, and with seemingly nothing else to do, we walked up and down the bike path on the North Shore of Oahu. A hand painted sign caught our attention with an inspiring mantra. - Everest

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A walk across the Croton Aqueduct, with views of the Harlem River.

8mm fugue...

A blessing; set to Raga Yaman (alap) by Zia Mohiuddin Dagar

A wintry afternoon in South Royalton, Vermont.

Soft light, new running surfaces of life, splintering merrily. Poetic observations.

Two men materialized on the empty street...

Toledo Meat Packing Explosion

A rainy night in South Royalton, Vermont.

for Barbara Crawford (1928-2024)

It's easy to spend some leisure time at the idyllic, homely Tunbridge World's Fair. The biggest little fair around!

Remix of a John Carpenter film from 1982.