Coming up this month there are a flurry of events for those of you interested in poetry film and poetry. Across three days there will be a lot to see and enjoy. On the 17th October at John Sebastian Lightship you can find Bristol Poetry Film festival on from 1.30 to 9 p.m. Films from […]
Spearheading the start of the autumn festivals, The International Video Poetry Festival in Athens goes live on the 11th and 12th September. Be ready for a beautifully crafted curation of video poems, video art and spoken word. The International Video Poetry Festival celebrates thirteen years of creative collaboration with more than 2000 artists from 85 […]
Cadence directors Chelsea Werner-Jatzke and Rana San have been running the video poetry festival (as well as associated workshops etc.) since 2018. I love their brief guiding principle ‘We approach video poetry as a literary genre presented as visual media that makes new meaning from the combination of text and moving image.’ They have also […]
A Spirited Misreading of Romances without Words / In Solitary – Larry Beckett’s translation of Paul Verlaine’s Romances sans Paroles and Cellulairement by Marc Zegans “The soul of an immortal child,” says one who has understood him better than others, Charles Morice, “that is the soul of Verlaine…especially, the unceasing renewal of impressions in the […]
Now in its ninth year, Cadence Video Poetry Festival (the brainchild of Chelsea Werner-Jatzke and Rana San) is now in full swing at the Northwest Film Forum in Seattle, USA. Celebrating National Poetry Month (in April in America), this year you can see a wide variety of genres, with live and online screenings (taking place […]
I have known the leading Australian poetry filmmaker Ian Gibbins for a number of years now, and marvelled at his skill as both an auteur poet and filmmaker, as well as his extraordinary evolution from an earlier life as a neuroscientist. However, unfortunately his work has become more and more prescient, timely and relevant. His […]