Lucy and I had an enjoyable but difficult time judging the poetry films at Newlyn PZ Film Festival 2020 www.newlynfilmfestival.com (now rescheduled for next year). But well done to all who entered, the eleven finalists and the prize winners, who are justly deserved. All the films were selected before the full onslaught of the coronavirus […]
Wonderful news that the mammoth – over 400 pages – publication Videopoetry = Vidéopoésie by leading Canadian videopoets Valerie LeBlanc and Daniel H. Dugas is now out online https://dr.library.brocku.ca/handle/10464/14790 Published by Brock University’s Small Walker Press it is a comprehensive survey of their collaboration over a thirty-year period. Catherine Parayre has written the French introduction, […]
In these isolating times when the world feels as if it is on hold, we are sharing an article by artist Rebecca Hilton, looking back to the festive warmth we all experienced at ZEBRA in December 2019. I hope you are all keeping safe and that you are, of course, using any extra time to […]
Lucy English and I are pleased to have curated a selection of Poetry Films for the Environment for LYRA 2020, March 14 in Bristol, where the theme is part of the festival this year. international screening Mary McDonald, Penn Kemp; Ian Gibbins; Helen Dewbery, Suzannah Evans; Helen Moore, Howard Vause; Jutta Pryor, Lucy English; Janet […]
Here are the bilingual (English and Spanish) details of the presentation on 12 October at Bristol Poetry Institute organized by Sarah Tremlett of Liberated Words and Rebecca Kosick. I believe this was an important event, not only in videopoetry and its dissemination, but in the links between Argentina and the UK (post-Brexit!). Marisol and I […]
VideoBardo – great screening presentation by Marisol Bellusci and Javier Robledo from Buenos Aires with incredible translation by Lucia Sellars, hosted by Bristol Poetry Institute and the wonderful Rebecca Kosick. So pleased to be able to continue links begun in 2012 between LW and VideoBardo. Check this website for translated transcriptions and further discussion with […]