Facing West

  • Genre: Drama
  • Run time: 9 min
  • Premiere: 2020. February 1.

A cinematic setting of poems by Walt Whitman that span his whole life's work, commemorating his bicentennial year. Features the poet's Long Island native "personator" Darrel Blaine Ford, manifesting and reciting "Song of Myself," "There Was a Child Went Forth," "Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun" and "Facing West From California's Shores." Filmed at the poet's birthplace, the Long Island shore, Manhattan, and where West meets East.

Discover

Camera

H. Paul Moon

Director of Photography

Directing

H. Paul Moon

Director

Editing

Sound

Agustin Grasso

Musician

Writing

Camera

H. Paul Moon

Director of Photography

Directing

H. Paul Moon

Director

Editing

Sound

Agustin Grasso

Musician

Writing