FOTOGENIA 6 – Nine Glorious Days of Wonder, Talent and Imagination in Mexico City

FOTOGENIA INTERNATIONAL FILM POETRY & DIVERGENT NARRATIVES FESTIVAL, based out of Mexico City must now be the largest festival of its kind in the world. I was so fortunate to be able to go last year and this year Festival Director Chris Patch has excelled himself. From November 21st to…

OBHÉAL – HYBRID WINTER WARMER, CORK and live online – a rich feast

OBHÉAL hybrid WINTER WARMER festival, CORK 22-24th November and online Ó Bhéal (Irish for ‘by word of mouth’, or ‘from the mouth’) is here again with its 12th Winter Warmer festival. Ó Bhéal is true to its name, in that poetry film cohabits so snugly with a very full schedule of…

Avant-Garde Maldito Video Poetry Festival – Albacete, Spain –

Maldito (11–17 November) began in 2017 and it has really come of age this year with a comprehensive curation of creative films from around the world and its online presence via FILMIN. What makes it unique is the approach by Javier Garcia, festival director and his team. You can enjoy…

AOTEAROA POETRY FILM FESTIVAL, New Zealand, 20–21 November

Establishing a stand-alone, annual festival in what is really a niche genre is a real achievement. It takes courage, creativity and also, sticking power. I know the experience – the feeling of finishing one and immediately thinking about the next. Aotearoa is now in its second year but already well…

Bristol Literary Film Festival – Frame to Frames, Cancer Alley and an exciting diverse programme

BRISTOL LITERARY FILM FESTIVAL I am really pleased to be part of the newly launched Bristol Literary Film Festival this year. It will also be nice to catch up with Lucy English again, who is presenting the important and timely ecopoetry film Cancer Alley from Outlier Moving Pictures (Pamela Falkenberg…

Poetics and Film 1980–2024 A Retrospective by Martin Sercombe

I am honoured to share this really fascinating insight into the development of leading British experimental filmmaker, film poet and poetry filmmaker Martin Sercombe, now living in New Zealand.  As an artist your work changes over the years (alongside artistic influences), and even changes mediums, and this creative process, across…

Frame to Frames Ekphrasis interview with Patricia Killelea for Moving Poems

It was a real pleasure to be interviewed on ekphrasis and adaptation by leading poetry filmmaker Patricia Killelea (Associate Professor at Northern Michigan University) for Moving Poems. I had just been to the We Need to Talk about Art : Ekphrasis Now conference at Leeds (on the tour venues for…

Joint forces: collaborating in poetry film by Janet Lees 

My Instagram tag is ‘everything is poetry’. Writing this piece, I’ve been thinking of changing it to ‘everything is collaboration’. I love what the poet Matthew Rohrer says about poetry: ‘I’ve come to believe that the writing of all poems is a form of collaboration’. He talks about collage poetry,…

Frame to Frames : Your Eyes Follow – tour: LEEDS TRINITY UNIVERSITY, 6 JULY

Really pleased to be presenting Frame to Frames : Your Eyes Follow / Cuadro a Cuadros : Tus Ojos Siguen at We Need to Write About Art: Ekphrasis Now, Leeds Trinity University on Saturday, 6th July. For those of you who don't know, Frame to Frames is a unique bilingual…

Drumshanbo final call for poetry films

I am really pleased to put in a final call  for poetry films for what promises to be a really memorable event in this beautiful, watery lakeland town (with extraordinary floating boardwalk across Acres lake)  in County Leitrim 22nd to the 25th August.   As they say on the website:…

JIM ANDREWS: Sea of Po – animisms and a ‘different sort of poetry & magazine’

How to introduce legendary Canadian Jim Andrews – a leading figure in the world of visual poetics / interactive literature / kinetic text and founder of Vispo https://vispo.com.  On eliterature.org the Vancouver-based polymath is described as ‘attempting to create writing that is a synthesis of various arts and media: words,…

Weimar: Lit-collage, Aline Helmcke, Frame to Frames book tour, judging – Poetryfilmtage

I am very excited and honoured to be part of Weimar Poetry Film Award / Poetryfilmtage – (Friday 31st May and Saturday 1st June) this year. I will be judging and also presenting the newly published Frame to Frames : Your Eyes Follow / Cuadro a Cuadros : Tus Ojos…