The Power of Language – Roxana Vilk interviewed by Rebecca Hilton

‘The Power of Language’: Interview with Roxana Vilk, for Liberated Words Interviewer: Rebecca Hilton, June 2020 We are very excited and pleased to showcase Liberated Words’ first podcast interview, ‘The Power of Language’ (a quotation from Roxana Vilk), which delves into the exhilarating world of British/Iranian artist, Roxana Vilk. Roxana’s multidisciplinary…

Solstice Sol Invictus selected for Versopolis, Festival of Hope and At the Fringe festival, Sweden, 27 June-4 July

Very pleased to hear that Solstice Sol Invictus – with first four verses and direction by myself, and final 4 verses by Lucy English (and additional voice by Helmi Stil), has been selected for At the Fringe, a very interesting festival in Tranås, Sweden. This poetry film (a pair to…

Visible Poetry Project 2020

All the films are online now at The Visible Poetry Project  www.visiblepoetryproject.com @VisiblePoetryProject.  You can view a poem a day for April – National Poetry Month USA – from the New York-based organisation. I have really enjoyed the variety, especially during lockdown, and it is good to look back over…

Newlyn PZ Film Festival 2020 Poetry Film Competition

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…

Videopoetry = Vidéopoésie

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…

Rebecca Hilton's Beginner's Guide to ZEBRA

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,…

Poetry Films for the Environment / Biosphere at LYRA Bristol, 14 march 2020

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;…

VideoBardo Presentation Overview

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…

post-VideoBardo

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…

INTRODUCING VIDEOBARDO, BUENOS AIRES TO THE UK

I was first invited to present a paper and screening at VideoBardo in 2012, and when Lucy and I first formed Liberated Words it was important to me to establish a special link with them. Since then I have been trying to get them to to the UK to talk…

post-REELpoetry

After Words This was a memorable event - Uprooted (screening of films about the refugee and migration crisis) was very well received and the poets that Fran selected to recite between film sections seemed to marry seamlessly with the films.  One poet said that she felt the films added to…

Uprooted at REELpoetry Houston

Honoured to be part of REELpoetry, Houston (24–26 Jan) where Dave Bonta of Moving Poems will be featured this year. I will be presenting Uprooted – poetry films relating to migration and the refugee crisis – with Canadian media artist and storyteller Mary McDonald, whose powerful, thought-provoking and arresting film…