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Archives from 2011-2025

Tag: cinematic

  • Long Day’s Journey Into Night

     

    “The fog was where I wanted to be.”
    “Halfway down the path you can’t see this house. You’d never know it was here.”
    “Or any of the other places down the avenue. I couldn’t see but a few feet ahead.”
    “I didn’t meet a soul.”
    “Everything looked and sounded unreal. Nothing was what it is.”
    “That’s what I wanted—to be alone with myself in another world where truth is untrue and life can hide from itself.”
    “Out beyond the harbor, where the road runs along the beach, I even lost the feeling of being on land.”
    “The fog and the sea seemed part of each other. It was like walking on the bottom of the sea.”
    “As if I had drowned long ago.”
    “As if I was the ghost belonging to the fog, and the fog was the ghost of the sea. It felt damned peaceful to be nothing more than a ghost within a ghost.”

    featuring Model: Kathryn O’Reilly
    all photographs by Michelle Gemma
    Photo Shoot for Aquarius:
    Personal Universe series
    24   August  2018
    Bluff Point,  CT  USA
    Eve of the Full Moon
    script:  Eugene O’Neill, Long Day’s Journey Into Night excerpt:
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  • “Return From The Sea”

    The Captain has been on a long sea voyage to find his fortune, having left behind his beloved.
    He has anxiously awaited his return home.
    He knows that his beloved has paced away many nights at the Mansion up in the Widows Walk, craning a look through the telescope: hoping to see a ship , any ship, any movement.
    Movement is life.
    The sea has movement but it can betray the visible truth because there is so much movement in the sea.
    The sea waves back at you, is hopeful.
    The Captain has arrived at the Mansion.
    He enters each room and looks around.
    Then he walks upstairs to get a better look. The Widows Walk has the best view. Plus there is a telescope: he will find her…

    “Return From The Sea”
    a new photo narrative starring Writer: Royal Young
    Text and Photographs by Michelle Gemma
    25 June 2018
    Spicer Mansion
    15 Elm Street, Mystic, CT  USA

  • Dark Fantasy

    “hey, teacher, teacher
    tell me how do you respond to students?
    and refresh the page and restart the memory?
    respark the soul and rebuild the energy?
    we stopped the ignorance, we killed the enemies
    sorry for the night demons still visit me
    the plan was to drink until the pain over
    but what’s worse, the pain or the hangover?”

    featuring Model: Kathryn O’Reilly
    Mystic, CT USA
    Photograph by Michelle Gemma

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  • Take Me With U

    Don’t care where we go
    I don’t care what we do
    I don’t care pretty baby
    Just take me with u

    featuring Model: Morgan Vail—from the ongoing series “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl”—
    a timeline of photographs over 17 years with the same model
    June 2015
    Mystic, CT USA
    ‪Photograph by Michelle Gemma

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  • 1005

    “On a contradiction scale from 1 to 10, you’re a 1000, maybe a 1005- I don’t know for sure….”

    featuring Model: Kathryn O’Reilly
    Words by Luke Hunter
    Photograph by Michelle Gemma

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