Eli Rarey is an independent filmmaker, performance artist, playwright, and poet. His short films have played at festivals around the world, and his feature, The Famous Joe Project, is available on streaming platforms. Rarey was a founding member of the SCIENCE PROJECT performance collective and a regular contributor to the online art and literary journal Ohio Edit. He holds a bachelor's degree in theater arts from Columbia University and an MFA from the USC School of Cinematic Arts, where he later taught in the Interactive Media Division. Beyond his independent film work, he has spent over 20 years in visual effects, with credits on major blockbuster franchises. He loves to travel. Email: elirarey [at] gmail.com
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by Eli Rarey Lately I have been drawn to trees. I moved across the country from Detroit to Los Angeles, and while I’ve been looking for a new apartment I have been noticing the trees nearby. If I can’t find a big tree in the neighborhood that I can hang out with, then the apartment…
by Eli Rarey I was one of those who bought tickets to see Christopher Nolan’s film The Odyssey in IMAX 70mm weeks before it opened in theaters—and I was also one of those disappointed by my experience of the movie. I had been listening to an audiobook of Daniel Mendelsohn’s translation of Homer’s epic in…
by Eli Rarey A poetry reading I recently attended at Clio’s Books in Oakland began with the poets and the audience all sitting in silence together for three minutes. Three minutes is a long time. None of the poems we heard took as long as three minutes to read. It was, you could say, the…