This is a new series of films, joining Interactions and Journals. It originated in my desire to offer a contribution to a compilation film about the present state of things. Each filmmaker was limited to ten seconds. The attraction of another format of what is currently intended to be really short films, but also films that do not have the formal constrictions I have placed on Interactions and Journals, proved hard to resist, and now there is a second, I am assuming with more to come.

Haikus 1: Our Government, and the Sky (2025) 10s This ten second film was a response to a call for ten second films in favor of freedom and against our current and ongoing catastrophe (as of January 2026, the date of this writing). They are supposed to go into a compilation film titled For Freedom, but two months later I see no signs of this. I would not have made this one were it not for that call. I was attracted partly to the discipline of trying to make a ten second film. I do like it, but think of it as perhaps the weakest of my films to date.

The film consists of nine shots. The first eight are one second long; the last one is two seconds The title gives away the "plot." The first three show three of the worst people in the Trump administration. The next two are excerpts from a video T made himself. (You didn't know that our president as a video artist, now, did you?) It uses AI. We don't even know if T wrote the AI prompts himself, but it is his film, since he presented it as his, and shows what he would like to do to all those who "peacebly...assemble...to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." These five were all filmed off my computer screen. Then the last four shots, filmed outdoors, show nature. I do think it's better than one might imagine for a film that has such an obvious "message:" Trump is bad, so stop looking at him and his minions and look at leaves and sky. Filmed in Chicago, November 2, 2025.

Haikus 2: Waters (2025) 1m 20s Images are all outtakes from my not yet completed Interactions 36: Bridges, filmed April through September, New York City and New Jersey.