The Moya View

Tag: cinema

  • Cinemaio

    Cinemaio

    the cinemaio shows movies in his empty theater in the darkness of his cinema despite the plague the closure of all othersHe sits in a plush velvet arm chair or sometimesunspools his legs onto the celluloid floor sitting in the back of the room savoring the light and images as he used to do during…

  • The Death of Cinema

    The Death of Cinema

    Some day the warblers will come and the birders will wander through the undergrowth, run across the ticket booth covered in briars,the rusty saplings of the speaker posts.Somewhere in the thickets they will find the popcorn stand, where they once bought a two buck bucket big enough to last a double feature of Godzilla/Mothra.They can…

  • The Art of Dying

    The Art of Dying

    The Pandemic has closed the theaters and cinemas.   On stage a lone actor commits suicide in the loneliness.   On screen the two lovers run to each other against the march of soldiers.   The actor’s death is an extravagant fake, a nod to the art of dying a good stage death.   The…