After The Rain

You Are Still There After the Rain

Dada came out of the craziness of World War One. "The birth of Dada was not the beginning of art but of disgust." Surrealism tried to systematize Dada's anarchy into an artistic blend of Freudian psychoanalysis and Marxist provocation. In the interests of conquering the irrational, Salvador Dali opened exhibitions dressed in a diving suit, Marcel Duchamp turned himself into woman, Benjamin Peret assaulted priests, and Yves Tanguy ate spiders. Andre Breton, nicknamed "the Pope of Surrealism", led an inspired gang of artists, lunatics and writers. By the 1950s they were denouncing each other for betraying the movement, but their ideas had infected Hollywood, advertising agencies and were turning up as TV humor and album covers.

The story of the movie is about the complexity of a distopic world. A wrecked world can be unpredictable but the results are worse to stand. A rain all of a sudden divide mankind apart. The ones who get wet in the rain and else. The ones get in the rain lose their minds. A handful of people, trying to protect themselves against both the rain and also the “crackheads” Someone named this as the doomsday. Who get crazy? The ones who get wet in the rain? or, The ones who suppose they don’t? It’s no matter why it rains, it’s the protection effort of the people against the rain.

In San Francisco, many years after his hideous crimes, the fiendish water creature Vodník emerges from Czech folklore to recount his beguiling tale.

"This is a street scene. The rain has just ceased, and passers-by are lowering their umbrellas. A well-dressed young man meets a pretty girl beneath an awning over a shop door. While they are standing there, the shopkeeper lowers the awning, which has accumulated a lot of water, and the two are thoroughly drenched. This picture has made a big hit."

To be queer is still taboo in mainstream Iranian society; it is considered sinful and unnatural, or at best, a psychological illness. Those from the LGBTQIA+ community are often told they bring shame upon their families. They are forced to hide their identity or risk abandonment and isolation. THE SKY AFTER RAIN —through a formalistic synthesis of recorded interviews, sound design, and choreographed dance—tells the story of Shaya; her attempts at testing society’s rigid gender boundaries and the transphobic events which eventually led to her making a difficult decision.

“I never got to feel the warmth of a loving family.” That is what Seishiro notes down in 1948, who was adopted as a child by the idealistic Eichiro. In 1980, Izumi works at a bank and she lives with her mother Ito. Twenty-two years later, in the evening on a winter night and the day before Izumi is to marry, her mother tells Izumi about her late father's dream, Seishiro. Her father's dream was of Izumi's marriage. Izumi reminisces about her loving father. What happened in the meantime? In reversed chronological order this movie tells a story about a man who had much to give and what he got in return.

This was recorded live at Shibuya Bunkamura, Orchard Hall, Tokyo Japan on June 3rd 1995. Tracks include: Crosstown Kids, Closed Door Jam, Low Steppin', Remembering JP, After the Rain, Larry's Blues, Smiles and Smiles To Go, Wes Bound, Etude, Take That, Lee's Solo, 4 on 6, Room 335, and LA Underground.

A story about an escape and a sad return.

After becoming involved in a killing, Kiddo gets on board Boyton's ship. When he learns what happened he dumps her on a South Sea island.