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Bernal Project: from scene 2 (pt.1)

From Origins of OZET

A globe interior eight miles across would contain as much effective space as a countryside one hundred and fifty miles square even if one gave a liberal allowance of air, say fifty feet above the ground.

Bernal Project: from scene 2 (pt.2)

From Origins of OZET

When the technicalities of space navigation are fully understood there will, from desire or necessity, come the idea of building a permanent home for men in space.

Bernal Project: from scene 8 (pt.1)

From Origins of OZET

"To be human is erroneous."

Bernal Project: from scene 8 (pt.2)

From Origins of OZET

"To be human is erroneous."

Bernal Project: from scene 5

From Origins of OZET

I am still torn on the matter of bird-shooting. I dread the day when conscience shall triumph over palate.

Bernal Project: from scene 6

From Origins of OZET

KARA/ALEX: …back and forth insults & laughter. “You’re a pig.” The guitars bombard you.

Bernal Project: from scene 7

From Origins of OZET

KARA: Did you hear me say: “So the beasts died for nothing?” ERIC/JAMES/AARON: We heard you. HARRIS: I didn’t.

LULLABY FROM THE FIRST GENERATION OF THE [YOUR SHIP NAME HERE] TO THE LAST

From Various Work

All our children, And their children, And their children, sail together, work together, on the [YOUR SHIP HERE]

OZET Songbook: Koba

From Koba / OZET Songbook

Someone must have known him and someone must have killed him and someone has to find the one who killed the only stranger.

Koba: Scene 3

From Koba / OZET Songbook

Work Task 5: Play this.

Koba: Scene 4 & 5

From Koba / OZET Songbook

ENDZELA: Go home, Koba. You’re in way over your head.

Koba: Scene 7

From Koba / OZET Songbook

I heard music… out there, in the middle of the forest. It was coming from a kind of lean-to made out of sticks and blankets.

OZET Songbook: OZET Protest Song

From Koba / OZET Songbook

Was it right that he should use it to put cream into his coffee and put butter on his rye bread and seduce the local women when my coffee tasted bitter and my nights were so tormented?

OZET Songbook: Spider's Egg

From Koba / OZET Songbook

Liquids and powders swirling around us no way of holding them down. Three-dimensional life.

OZET Songbook: When My Children Arrive

From Koba / OZET Songbook

They’ll be born on that river
who make it across
for that river’s eight childhoods wide

Albert 2

From Alberts I-V

Footage captured of Albert 2 (Kirilov) before the unfortunate centrifuge accident that cost him his life.

Leonid Pavlovich Titov

From Alberts I-V

The OZET pioneer (Albert 5) is shown exercising in rural Russia before joining the Space Program.

Avram Selig Eichenbaum

From Alberts I-V

The OZET pioneer (Albert 3) is shown wandering the streets around Sobornyi Square in Zhytomyr before joining the Space Program.

Excerpts from Alberts I-V

From Alberts I-V

We are not the first men in space,
but we are the men who carried a table
off the face of the earth to prove
that civilization can thrive somewhere new.

OZET Archival Footage #20332-A

From Alberts I-V

6 March 1918
Veksler Training Complex
3 Miles West of Zyhtomyr

Birds in Boxes

From Alberts I-V

I had a vision, an experiment to try:
put birds in boxes, lift them by balloons.

On the OZET

From Various Work

Beautiful images from the Collective Sphere OZET.

OZET Day

From Various Work

Universal OZET Day is every March 6. Celebrate with this propaganda film.

The Smuggler (OZET Generation: 19)

From Various Work

An OZET Film.

OzetBand: Hart St. Concert (pt.1)

From Various Work

Birds in Boxes
You Drunken Fuck

OzetBand: Hart St. Concert (pt.2)

From Various Work

Different Man
t_2011_7_9-12
You’re Going

OzetBand: Hart St. Concert (pt.3)

From Various Work

The Smuggler
Spider’s Egg
Did They See Us?
OZET Protest Song (aka Milk Cow Song)

I keep dreaming about an atmosphere.

From Various Work

I keep dreaming about an atmosphere. (Is it on Earth?)

We don’t have one. (on the OZET)

An Ode to Our Travellers of the Constellations

From Common Hall Village 20

Carina slices into the sea of space
among the shining spray of stars am I

The Good Wishes and Wisdom of a High Member of the Grand Council

From Common Hall Village 20

Trust the council. Make your homes thrive as we safeguard OZET’s course.
To the Fifteenth Generation! And to OZET!

The Council Ends the Festival

From Common Hall Village 20

The sky is dark. [We]
have no confusion.
Your parents could see
a blue illusion.

Festival Broadcast

From Common Hall Village 20

The adult pioneers now gather together for these purposes…

OZET: Excerpts 1 (2009-2011)

From Various Work

LULLABY, Koba/OZET Songbook,
OZET Archival footage #20332-A,
Albert 2, Avram and Leonid,
Alberts I-V, The Smuggler, Hart St.

OZET: Excerpts 2 (2012)

From Various Work

Common Hall Village 20
OZET Katorga Workshop #1

Drinking Ritual

From Various Work

Cousin, who will drive the harrow? Thirteen empty stokas wait.
Autumn calls for rye. Sow while it’s light.

Katorga Retraction Film

From Katorga

For 12 days a year the OZET shuts down in order to allocate energy to the retraction of the Katorga, docking, deposit of mushrooms and prisoners, and the final release back out.

Katorga Retraction Holiday

From Katorga

11 hours.

long night / long song / mark the hours come and gone / cow in the gray barn /child in the hayloft

An Introduction to the Katorga Images

From Katorga

There is general agreement that the death of THE WOMAN precipitated the prison reform movement of the early Fifteenth Generation and the eventual closure of the Katorga prison colony.

100-Year-Old Man ChimeBox Movie + [The] servant (cleaning up in the next room) cannot make music.

From Various Work

Filmed in Stony Point, NY and at the Incubator Arts Project in May 2013.

OZET Katorga: Past 2 (The Group)

From Katorga

A sketch film for Katorga Section 3.

OzetSet: Silent Barn

From Various Work

OZET makes its first appearance at auto-didactic cooperative performance space The Silent Barn with OzetSet: two hours of soundscapes, grooves, songs, films, and rituals.

OZET: Excerpts 3 (2012-2014)

From Various Work

Katorga Workshop #1-3
Drinking Ritual
[The] servant (cleaning up in the next room) cannot make music.
OZETset: Silent Barn

OZET: Katorga [section 2]

From Katorga

PIONEER: The council sent the call to cut away the hill gouge iron from the cliff to forge into a chain to coil inside a cave like entrails of a calf.

OZET: Katorga [section 1]

From Katorga

WARDEN: What beauty behind us. Silver eyeball, see us and turn. Forget everything all you won.

OZET: Katorga [section 4c]

From Katorga

WARDEN: Take your harvest to the scale. Look around! Who can speak for her Cousins? You! To the scale! Now!

OZET: Katorga [section 7 & 8]

From Katorga

As for me, she said, I shall be quite satisfied to leave a world where action is never sister of the dream.

OZET Protest Song (AKA The Milk Cow Song) - Group 5643

From Various Work

From the hills: A rare version of the Protest Song from Cousin Greg and Cousin Dave of Group 5643. (Filmed in Idaho in 2009.)

Katorga: section 6

From Katorga

An OZET film directed by Jayce Bartok. It is based on the June 2014 stage production Katorga. It stars Becky Baumwoll and Stuart Rudin.

Generation 6 Infinity Song no.2714

From Various Work

At the dawn of the day in the Age of Forever! Voices raised: Awake at the dawn of the day.

OoRT Prologue Trailer

From OoRT Prologue: Seed Silent in the Field

Trailer for 2017’s theatrical-musical ritual, OoRT Prologue: Seed Silent in the Field.

OoRT Cake Recipe Film

From OoRT

Learn how to make OZET OoRT Cakes!

OoRT Prologue: Seed Silent in the Field

From OoRT Prologue: Seed Silent in the Field

A theatrical-musical ritual representing the Cousins of Village 4 as they maintain the fragile gift economy of OZET’s 22nd Generation. Onions, beets, plum brandy, sheep. (Full performance.)

classical heat death

From Various Work

Mineral deposits at the core of the OZET are found through one of the original tunnels carved into the rock.

OoRT or Why Pigs?: Section 3

From OoRT

Night, not long before dawn, on the road at the entrance to Village 4.

OZET presents original research on the (Augmented) Periodic Infinity Organ.

From OZET presents original research on the (Augmented) Periodic Infinity Organ.

Filmed in live at The Brick, Brooklyn, NY, on July 20, 2019.