The Continental Shoemakers

What if God's Original Plan was for Queer reproduction not heterosexual? What if the Original Sin of humanity was that they turned away from their homosexuality? God begets Stephanie and Eve as a female couple, and also Dana and Adam as a male couple to go forth and multiply. How will this change all of recorded time?

 

An innovation.

 

Four brightly and majestically dressed Gods, have decided to create humanity. Diekololaoluwalayemi, a Nigerian female representing water, is bored and wants to create; Ohanzee, Native Indian Male representing air, needs an outlet; Urshiva, Sikh Female representing earth, seeks mischief; Gedaliah, Hebrew male representing fire, wants order and the need for something to begin.The Original Plan is to create two males as a couple - Dana and Adam, and two females as a couple - Stephanie and Eve - these couples will produce children through The Gods given immaculate conception; if the couples stray from the Original Plan and reproduce, as heterosexuals without The Gods, problems might possibly arise. 

 

However, hundreds of years after this harmony, a shape-shifting being appears telling people to couple male and female to produce offspring without The Gods' assistance.  This causes, the first known application of, mayhem, and The Gods do not know what to do.  The Gods send one of their middle-management executives, Jabril, to appear to, Josephine and Mariah -  a young couple who love in the old way of female-female - and to tell them they will have a child and he shall be called Jesse. Josephine and Mariah travel to other lands seeking acceptance of their situation, they are often met with scorn but do finally find a place to bear Jesse.  

 

Jesse grows into a thirty year old teacher who tells of how humanity needs to return to The Gods Original Plan. Jesse meets Murray, who has left his job to follow and teach Jesse's lessons.  Murray and Jesse have an almost instant connection and love.  They are visited by Jabril and told they will have a child and she shall be called Kalisurah. Years pass and humanity has no inequality, racism, homophobia, or hatred.  

 

One day, the now twenty year old, Kalisurah meets a male, named Vecury.  The bond between Kalisurah and Vecury is instant love, however they do not know what to do.  Vecury tells Kalisurah that he has always felt he was born of the wrong nature and how they wanted to be more like, Kalisurah.  They call upon The Gods to help them and The Gods make Vecury female.  As this occurs, The Gods realize something amazing. The Gods have an epiphany and decide that all Love and all child bearing will be beautiful and Godly.  The immaculate conception will apply to all human creation - all births whether from female-female, male-male, male-female, or cis-trans, trans-trans or any connection, including an a-sexual or a-romantic connection of creating friendships, art, vocation, etc. - will be sacred, and if one is not wanting or ready to bear children, The Gods will grant this, as well. We see how this fundamental evolution has affected history from antiquity to present day, and how humanity, and our world, Eden, is a place of divinity.

Sample of the project

Mock Up Videos - 

https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/1029637400 - Current Sample : Rough Cut of BEGET - DiChirico Surreal Fantasy Style

 

https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/1029640387 - Current Sample : Rough Cut of BEGET - Cinematic Surreal Legend Style-

 

My filmmaking is new, and one of the things I call it is 3/2, meaning Third Cinema with a fraction of Second Cinema. The films to create are those that are inherent to my  expression which collectively bring light to, and challenge: the problems of our culture, the pop-social media-Americanization of many aspects, the need for more and more,  using socio-political arguments to examine why there are so many taboos, raise consciousness, expose exploitative conditions, engage action to improve life, express experiences that have shaped a group, fortify humanity with power and possibility, and provide liberation. 

 

This project, BEGET, is fostering an expanse of enthralling and immersive possibility to express and create, - the narrative is so large that the allegorical parables are an almost new planet of stories. The idea is stimulating and affecting the creative practice to combine aesthetics, and application of diverse philosophies, polemics, and  parameters. 

 

Success is having ideas, creating stories, collaborating, the persistence of making the work, having the labor produced, and leading to many actively experiencing the film. Ideas, and creation are thriving, and I hope to be able to put these qualities into feature without sacrificing the scope and vision that often happens when one is confronted with lack.  Lack is a holistic barrier experienced when an artist or project does not have support and provision, does not have some amount of social impact, and does not have resources, equipment, or an environment to make art flourish. 

 

The film will be an interplay between what Rights and Equality need and the film’s strength. BEGET will engage with people who question why are certain aspects accepted by most and other aspects are shunned. BEGET will appeal to the LGBTQIA+ community, but will also appeal to those who have dealt with inequality. Our rights as Queer human beings may be taken away on any day, one election could change the entire landscape of this country, with aspects like and similar to Project 2025, most of what was fought for, and most of what is now put into law, could be erased overnight.  We must vote and contact politicians, the ACLU, the NAACP, GLAAD, and other organizations to fight for rights to continue and progress - not terminate and halt. The allegorical-parable like narrative of BEGET will bring awareness and understanding needed to shift public attitudes. 

 

With humility and sage experience, I must tell this story because I will serve as a Herald to proclaim and promote the possibility and potential of our present and of our future.

 

My preferred genre is narrative, and the work I do is what I call Anton-Chechov-ian meets Operatic. I like the small story that transcends to the epic and archetypal. Yasujiro Ozu, Elio Petri, Ida Lupino, Bernardo Bertolucci, Jean Cocteau, Francois Truffaut, Quentin Tarantino, Pier Pasolini, Luca Guadagnino, and Sally Potter - and what they frame, and what they say have been influences on my work.

 

An element of BEGET is the premise that The Gods are filmmakers crafting features with all the resources of color, light, sound, spatial and temporal logics, rhythmic and graphic editing, location, and actors to tell the stories  of every moment, coupled with the active presence of what I define as: emulsion, synesthesia, intrinsic-artifice, and didactic. 

 

Emulsion is the ability to blend properties that do not ordinarily mix. The senses will be blended and crossed to form a cinematic synesthesia creating visual music and sounding light that the viewer will feel and interpret in a 3D environment transmitted through a 2D film. Using the intrinsic to create artifice and the artifice to create the intrinsic is a system that I believe must be part of BEGET, and filmmaking. Philosophy, science and theology have always questioned reality, existence, cosmogony and the imminent, however, learning why we define some organisms as augmented and others as virtual is an element to understanding the entire process, and the eventual many possibilities, of reproduction.  

 

In BEGET, The Gods’ give humanity an almost sixth sense to make their own films, called dreams. Every conflict and joy within the narrative of BEGET will have a didactic structure using metaphor, metonymy and symbolism to involve the viewer with meaning and Knowledge Construction by actively experiencing the film.