Crew
Poem by Todd Boss
Film by Calum Macdiarmid
Release Year
2020
This Motionpoems film was created in 2020 for "Reflections on the Pandemic," our first show with TPT PBS, in an effort to document the time we were going through and to buoy the spirits of front line workers.
Making an Animated Poem About Quarantine and Civil Unrest
On Lockdown
a week
was a month
and a month
was cosmic.
We aged
like dogs age,
I hoped,
exponentially
wiser. I missed
the neons.
But
George Floyd’s 8:46 stoked something older—on an order more systemic—that broke
the fever of the pandemic
and brought to light a darker
and lonelier disease. We are
more vulnerable by far
than is realized by even our
least sung, furthest flung, and most compromised.
Every second now is eons.
by Todd Boss
Hippocrates Cafe Productions (HCP) grew out of a live, inspired-by-radio show that ran from 2009 to 2020. It explored complex health topics through story and song, using professional actors and musicians. With the onset of the pandemic, it morphed into a television show ("Reflections on the Pandemic"), produced with TPT PBS, and HCP was born.