Dean Balsamo's Reel

Raw Poet Film: using sculptures from my Meteor Series (some of which are being considered for use in a streaming series episode) , something about those times you feel the need to vent and circumvent...try some magical or hopeless means to deal. Mood.

like the current link media and the public is making between UFO's and the balloon the famous Roswell UFO incident is explained as the crash of a weather balloon. They discussion brought back memories of meeting two witnesses from the Roswell Incident back in 1997 at the 50th anniversary of the event. They seemed credible to me, not sure what to believe but one thing I do think is, we've never been told the full story of what happened then. This is the first of four micro episodes on the UFO....

Reimagined, remastered, re-engineered, raw Raw Poet when magical thinking is in the air

Several years ago I became infatuated with the CIA when I attended a weekend long conference with agents hosted by Valerie Plame here in Santa Fe. I wrote a show bible and did a look book for a steaming series using CIA case files to shed light on various events. Luckily the infatuation passed but the bibles still stand. Who doesn't need some debriefing from time to time

Saw Brandon Cronenberg's infinity pool-elevated horror - great World building -psychological Terror obvious he loves film thinking about it a lot this film -wanted to give some expression to some of my feelings about it -if you like Ari Aster and Ben Wheatley films you might like this, have become a fan of Mia Goth and her parts in horror films: X , Pearl, and Infinity Pool

Going through archives from photo shoots-spec art projects from the late 90s, giving it a documentary type tone blended with....

Reworking some older material including footage from a concept trailer we shoot-me directing- in the 90s for RUBY'S GIRL (Yet to be completed) a spec feature I wrote.

When developing a story I often do drawings or like here do a film, like a visual shorthand searching for the tone I'm after in the story. This comes from something around a cult/guru. I consider myself something of an underground filmmaker besides writer

Although historical subjects high on my list of writing themes-having written stories about Trotsky's murder in Mexico City from the standpoint of the Russian agents ordered to kill him, and another about a stripper in Jack Ruby's club right before JFK's murder never thought about doing something around the Civil War until the main character arrived in a full blown scenario lodging itself in my mind and ;inciting a story-what's different here is much of the film takes place in the midst of a...

Simulation Theory-the idea that the manifest world is a Simulation- has become the best explanation for the world. We're CODE-software that gets inserted into the Simulation on a periodic basis. What's behind the Simulation? Good question who knows. But its a way of looking at the world that seems to accommodate every belief like re-incarnation and re-writing history on demand. Although I continue to write feature scripts I'm also putting a lot of attention to online filmmaking. The market...