A cinematic setting of poems by Walt Whitman that span his whole life's work, commemorating his bicentennial year. Features the poet's Long Island native "personator" Darrel Blaine Ford, manifesting and reciting "Song of Myself," "There Was a Child Went Forth," "Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun" and "Facing West From California's Shores." Filmed at the poet's birthplace, the Long Island shore, Manhattan, and where West meets East.
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- Released
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- Zen Violence Films
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Darrel Blaine Ford as Walt Whitman
Adalie Morales as Girl
Top Crew
H. Paul Moon · Director, Cinematographer
Walt Whitman · Writer
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