Invocation, a Fire Cycle Film
This film accompanies the song and poem “Invocation.” It stars the inimitable Becca Hoback, who also choreographed it and read the poem. It was shot by Tyler Dunning Evans.
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What is The Fire Cycle?
The Fire Cycle is about the elements, deep time, interconnectedness, and impermanence viewed through a series of ritual-like pieces. It's about healing, navigating grief, and reconnecting with who we were before we were technology- and efficiency-obsessed stress machines with too much AI for our own good.
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The Fire Cycle: A Reading From the Book of Regenesis premiered at the Defy Film Festival in Nashville, Tennessee in August, 2022.
Poems, music, film, visual art.
The Fire Cycle is a multidisciplinary project from Clay Steakley. Anchored by a book of poems and album of ambient music released in late Summer 2022.
And/Or, The Fire Cycle is a bottle universe of rituals, spells, dances — a secret cove for the magic that was left after they quantified intuition.
Let our procession be a dance
From the outer dark to the inner, better dark.
From sharpened flagpoles to the medicine of kind hands.
The line needn’t be straight.
Join hands with me and let’s kiss and smear
Wine on our mouths and conduct this new, better magic.