THE 
PRAYING SCHIZO!

Photo Credit by The 4-Star Theater of Joel Flickstein

Photo Credit by The 4-Star Theater of Joel Flickstein

“I have found the greatest power in the world, is the power of prayer.” - Cecil B. Demille

Celluloid isn't just your average superhero, who saves by standing in the gap for people and making intercession for the.

meet 
joel flickstein!

 My name is Joel Flickstein. I am a film projectionist at 4-Star Theatre. Today I found a journal of Intuitive intercessory Prayers in a loose floor board, but get this, its not just any sacred journal, its from a Supreme-Being who mentors me in prayer through automatic writings. Weird, huh? Yet, cool. And I've also been a flick jumping, man of letters kind of superhero for like two days. But get this, what if I told you I hear voices and see people through a box, that is, movie screen and notepad. You'd probably say I'm cuckoo, huh? And, although that might be true I was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia at the age of 17, yet I have no problem telling you I am Schizofilmic because I'm outta my mind with movies but I'll always leave my mind for you to get inside my head to read; for if you do, you'll see a film. Flicker is my brain on movies, it's my film medication that keeps me sane with the Gospill, as I thought I might put that in. Yet the best part about it is I get to see movies from a future time period of 2019, and it's the 1950s! Not to mention I get to be a different kind of hero, saving people's butt through it by means of intercessory prayer and a message I mysteriously drop in their pocket. Don't ask how, it just came with the powers; a cross between Divine intuition, second sight, empathy, bi-location and a bit of astral projection you might say. So what if I'm not the hero they can see who appears only in letters and movies, but at least I get to be like a guardian, or a guardian angel who makes divine intervention for people. So on my lunch break and downtime between job duties and tasks... I journal, yet that's when I get the intuition of seeing or hearing cries from people who yearn for help, and that can range from domestic violence; to crime; to desperate situations; to suicide attempts, including housecleaning and homework. Apart from that I'm jumping into movie scenes as one of the characters to dialogue with the other for mentorship, and for a friend whenever I get lonely. Other than that I'm just playing the background as your normal, humbled Motion Picture Projectionist who goes unseen. Well, that's all for now.