Chasen Gaver Movies

Documents the innovative ways in which Washington writer/poet Chasen Gaver uses movement, percussion and other performance elements to enhance the...

The poet vanishes and only his voice remains. He is replaced, as Walters describes it, by a "visual realization" of the poem's themes of spies,...

Gaver is an actor rather than a reciter and pulls the "text" out of a gold-leaf skull, folds it into an airplane and then tosses it over and over....

A now-defunct Washington, D.C. after-hours gay bar is used as the setting for hell.

A parody of American domestic and political life. Marge Jones, a B-movie actress, is plagued by creditors and blackmail. She returns to her hometown,...

A spoof on Jacqueline Onassis's possible telephone response to First Lady Joan. Second segment of "A Kennedy Trilogy."

A monologue which posits being Black and HIV positive as making one doubly invisible, and losing weight as a prelude to disappearing.