Viaje a la Luna
1
White bed on a grey wall.
Across the bedclothes
a dance unfolds
13 & 22.
First two,
then more
till they cover the bed like ants.
2
The bedclothes are torn off the bed
by an invisible hand.
3
Big feet run fast
in black and white lozenged socks.
4
A frightened head
gaze fixed on a point
dissolves into a wire head
against a backdrop of water.
5
Letters
help help help
double exposure
a vulva
moving up and down.
6
A long corridor
traversed by the machine
a window down the end.
7
A view of Broadway by night.
8
Dissolve to previous scene.
9
A pair of legs swing quickly.
10
Legs dissolve into a mass of trembling hands.
11
Trembling hands
double-exposure
a weeping child.
12
The weeping child
double-exposure
the woman
who beats him.
13
Fade to the long corridor
camera moving backwards fast.
14
At the end
wide shot of an eye
double-exposure
a fish
dissolving
into what follows.
15
Falling fast through a window
letters double-exposed in blue
help help.
16
Dissolve
letter by letter
into
the footprint left by a foot.
17
And the footprints
into a silkworm on a leaf
against a white backdrop.
18
From the silkworms
emerge a large death’s head
and from the head
a phase of the Moon.
19
Cut open the Moon
and there’s a drawing of a head
a head that vomits
opens and closes its eyes
dissolves into:
20
A pair of children
walking, singing
eyes closed.
21
Heads of singing children
spattered with ink.
22
Ink drops
cast across white.
23
A door.
24
A man in a white robe come out
from the other side comes a boy in a bathing suit
dotted with large black and white dots.
25
Wide shot
a costume double-exposed with fish.
26
The robed man offers him a Harlequin’s costume
but the boy turns him down.
The robed man takes him by the neck
the boy screams
but the robed man wraps
the Harlequin costume
around his mouth.
27
It all dissolves
into snakes
double-exposed with crabs, some other fish
moving rhythmically
a living fish in someone’s hand
a wide shot
squeezing it till it dies
moving up to the camera
till its little mouth
covers the lens
inside its mouth
a wide shot
a pair of fish flapping in agony
kaleidoscopic
a hundred fish
slapping and flapping in agony.
28
Letters
a trip to the Moon
a room
a pair of women
weeping in black
heads resting on a table
a table with a lamp
raise their hands to the sky.
29
Shots of their hands
their bosom
the hair down over their faces
hands twisted from wire.
30
They lower their arms
raise them to the sky again.
31
A frog falls onto the table.
32
The frog double-exposed
massive on a background of orchids
thrashing with fury
among the orchids
a huge drawing of a woman’s head
vomiting
switching
negative to positive
positive to negative
a door slams
and another
and another
and another
the women double-exposed
arms raised
arms lowered
on the slamming of each door
letters
Elena
Helena
elhena
elHeNa.
33
The women quickly walk to the door.
34
The camera descends the stairs fast
double-exposure
it climbing them too.
35
Triple exposure
going up and down the stairs.
36
Double-exposure
bars passing over a drawing
the Death of Santa Radegunda.
37
A woman in mourning
walks down the stairs.
38
Wide-shot of her.
39
Another very naturalistic shot of her
she’s wearing a handkerchief in the Spanish manner.
Exposure of bloody noses.
40
Her head upside down
exposed on an image of veins in high relief
made from large grains of salt.
41
The camera moves up the stairs
at the top is a naked boy
his head is like an anatomical manikin’s
with its muscles and veins and tendons
and the blood circulatory system
is drawn on his skin
like a Harlequin.
42
Emerging from the middle
of his body.
43
Looks from side to side
melts into the street at night.
44
And in the street at night
three in their overcoats
collars turned up against the cold
one looks at the Moon
close up on the bird
he holds up and squeezes
squeezes its neck till it’s dead
right up to the lens
the third looks at the Moon
and on the screen
is projected a Moon against a white backdrop
dissolves into screaming mouth.
45
The three of them
flee down the street.
46
The boy all veins
appears in the street
left behind at a cross road
camera pans.
47
Dissolves into a triple exposure
of fast trains crossing.
48
Dissolves into a bar
several young men
dressed in tuxedos
the waiter pours them wine
but they can’t lift the glass to their lips
the glass grows heavy
and they struggle against sleep
an almost naked girl and a Harlequin
enter the bar
and dance slowly
dance in slow motion
everyone tries to drink
but they can’t
the waiter fills glasses
already full.
49
The boy all veins appears
he gesticulates
gestures desperately
moves and expresses life
the rhythm quickens
all the men fall asleep.
50
A head gazes emptily
fills the screen
dissolves into a frog
the boy all veins
squeezes the frog
between his fingers.
51
Squeeze out
a sponge
and a bandaged head.
52
(dissolves into a street
a girl in white
runs off with a Harlequin)
53
The head vomits
all the men in the bar vomit.
54
Dissolves into an elevator
a little black boy
he vomits.
55
The Harlequin boy
and the naked woman
ascend in the elevator.
56
They embrace
sensually kiss.
57
He bites her neck
pulls her hair
with violence.
58
A guitar
a hand
scissors
cutting the strings.
59
She fends the boy off
he furiously kisses her
slides his thumbs over her eyes
as if to press into them.
60
She screams
he turns his back
takes off his jacket
there’s a wig
on the boy all veins.
61
She melts into
a white plaster bust
he kisses her
passionately.
62
Lips
and hands
leave their marks
on the plaster bust.
63
Words
Elena Elena Elena Elena.
64
Melt into screaming
screams splashing water
a violent drenching.
65
screaming
about the boy all dead veins
about newspapers and herrings.
66
A bed
hands covering a corpse.
67
A boy
in a white coat and rubber gloves
with a girl dressed in black
they draw a mustache in ink
on terrible dead man’s head
they kiss
they laugh.
68
A cemetery
they are kissing on a grave
moviestar kissing
with other characters.
69
And it quickly ends
Moon
trees
the wind.
PSY (Jan. 2025)
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