EVERY BOOK IS ABOUT THE SAME THING: THE MOVIE
Dir. Courtney Bush, 2023.
United States. 82 min.
In English.
THURSDAY, MARCH 14TH – 7:30 PM (W/Q&A)
A lo-fi film adaptation of the director’s first poetry collection, EVERY BOOK IS ABOUT THE SAME THING: THE MOVIE (Courtney Bush, 2023) uses a steady voiceover reading to anchor associative, intimately gathered images which tell the story of a year of the filmmaker/poet’s life, divided into three “seasons”: divorce and grief, nervous breakdown at a Los Angeles Del Taco, and falling in love again while making art.
Editor Tynan Delong built the visual sequence by following and interpreting the poems in lieu of a formal script, modulating the distance between what is seen and what is said. The film was shot in New York, Los Angeles, and Biloxi, Mississippi. Shot on Sony Handi-cam.
Courtney Bush is a poet and filmmaker from the Mississippi Gulf Coast. She is the author of Every Book Is About The Same Thing (Newest York Arts Press, 2022) and I Love Information (Milkweed Editions, 2023). Her narrative short films, made with collaborators Jake Goicoechea and Will Carington, are all available on NoBudge.com and have been screened at festivals both locally and internationally.