Fleet Street
A Gothic video poem that conjures the world of Edgar Allan Poe — spectral, literary, and steeped in dread. Named a semi-finalist at a Chicago film festival.
On Screen
Films & Video Work
A gothic elegy, a fever-dream procession, and a first glimpse of what's coming next — each dressed for the dark.
The Four Madnesses, or the Voyage of the Carrus Navalis
An experimental short following a procession of madness across a ship of fools. The title nods to one proposed root of the word carnival itself — the Roman carrus navalis, a ship-shaped float paraded through festival streets. Winner, Best Experimental, at an international festival in Greece.
Abject Drift
A first look at a new work now taking shape. The full film is still ahead — the trailer is above.
A Time Before the Moon
A world glimpsed just before everything changed — masks, fortune, and a Three of Swords cast against the dark. A feature-length work now taking shape.
La Mala Vita
A reliquary of a story, laid out like a body in state — skeletal witnesses, candlelight, and a title that means “the bad life.” A first look at a feature concept now taking shape.
For the Stage
Stage Plays & Scripts
Work written to be spoken aloud, in a room, by people other than the page.
The Colloquy of Solterre and Lunasea
A colloquy — literally, a formal dialogue — staged between two elemental forces: Solterre and Lunasea. Available for licensing and staged readings.
Request the ScriptAdditional scripts and stage work are in progress — inquire below for current availability.
Backstage
Television
The next act is still backstage. New work for television is in development — reach out to hear what's coming, or to talk about collaboration.
Get in TouchOn the Page
Books
Poems built like artifacts — timestamps of a self that keeps breaking and reassembling.
Post-Catastrophe Self
Forty-five poems in four movements — Shards & Compositions, Mythic Masks & Incantation, Grotesque & Historical Fire, and Apocalypse & Recomposition — framed by an introduction, afterword, and postscript. The collection maps a decade through what the poet calls the Recomposite: a self built, broken, and rebuilt in pieces. Closer to decadent and outsider-art traditions than the contemporary mainstream, it reads less like a book of poems than a psychic timestamp.
Order the BookOn the Record
Music
Sound as another stage for the same restless voice.
Henchmen of the Temple
Andrew-Alexander Carnevale is the vocalist and songwriter for Henchmen of the Temple. Releases and shows to be announced — reach out below to be the first to hear.
Get in TouchLost Songs
- Perpetual Air Balloon
- Another Fork in the Road
- Amongst Archers
- The Apostate’s Hagiography
- Voice out in the Wilderness and Mark Chapman’s Got the Blues
- Choke Baby Choke
- Juliet Baby
- Soul Searching in a Music Shop
- Whisper to the Wind (No Woman)
The Ringmaster
About Andrew-Alexander Carnevale
Andrew-Alexander Carnevale is a writer, filmmaker, poet, and multidisciplinary artist working across the page, the stage, and the screen.
His stage play The Colloquy of Solterre and Lunasea premiered in 2023. His short film The Four Madnesses, or the Voyage of the Carrus Navalis won Best Experimental at an international festival in Greece, and his Gothic video poem Fleet Street was a semi-finalist at a Chicago film festival.
His debut poetry collection, Post-Catastrophe Self, was published in 2026. He is also the vocalist and songwriter for the band Henchmen of the Temple.
Carnival Creations is the tent that holds all of it.
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Inquiries & Booking
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