Here's a slideshow of behind-the-scene photos from "Love's Invitation". Photos by Hokai Sobol and Jason Digges. Watch the film here and read the poem, "Echoes of Your Heart", that is heard at the end of the film.
Ryan Oelke
“Echoes of Your Heart”, Poem from “Love’s Invitation”
(Featured in my short film, "Love's Invitation", winner of Best Screenplay. Read more of my poetry at Love is Under Me) As I held your hand, I felt the last breath leave your lips, Taking my tenderness with it. Buried under emptiness, I only prayed for the sun To...
Echoes of Your Heart
(Featured in my short film, "Love's Invitation", winner of Best Screenplay) As I held your hand, I felt the last breath leave your lips, Taking my tenderness with it. Buried under emptiness, I only prayed for the sun To lovingly scorch my body, So that I might be...
“Love’s Invitation” – Top Ten, Best Screenplay. Boulder 24 Hour Shoot Out 2009
Love's Invitation from Ryan Oelke on Vimeo. This weekend I shot my first short film with an amazing team of talented friends for the Boulder Shoot Out Festival. The film, "Love's Invitation", placed in the Top Ten and I won the award for Best Screenplay. I am so very...
Shootout Boulder 2009
This weekend the lovely film crew I worked with on Sex, God, Rock 'n Roll will be shooting a short film for the Shootout Boulder Film Festival. I wrote a short script that stars Stuart Davis and Hokai Sobol. We'll have to adapt it a little when the festival starts...
Pieces of Lovers Passed
I went into my past machete in hand to gather pieces of old lovers, a perfect creation I hoped to stitch together with fear, but something wasn't right... I couldn't breathe life into my creation, and beauty passed as I stood waiting...
You Might Be in The Dark Night
*Update: This post gets a lot of traffic from people searching about the dark night in Buddhism and I've finally written another follow up post. The new post is more of candid sharing of my own experience with dark nights. You can read it here. The dark night might be...
Blossoms of Ineffability
I could never exhaust this poetry that blossoms from my heart watered by your ineffable Divine Beauty.
Forgotten Tenderness
One night, a lonely star called my name its beauty and light filled my heart A forgotten tenderness burst from my chest I did not know if I lied upon it traversing the heavens or if it took me as its flight gently guiding my vulnerability with its love.