Poem Film Editions

Poem Film Editions is a new imprint created by directors Sarah Tremlett and Csilla Toldy to publish innovative publications that not only include poetry, prose and images, but also links to poetry films from international poetry filmmakers around the world.

With a long-standing relationship with Spanish video poets and Spanish-speaking video poetry festivals such as: VideoBardo (Argentina) FOTOGENIA (Mexico City), Helios Sun (Mexico City) and Maldito (Spain) Poem Film is also keen to represent Spanish artists in the catalogue. As a result, the first publication from this exciting new imprint Frame to Frames : Your Eyes Follow is bilingual, celebrating both translation and transmedia.

Described as an innovative and unique project – Frame to Frames : Your Eyes Follow is a bilingual (English and Spanish) poetry book with a QR link to a 17-film screening of the poetry films made from the poems. The concept of a book-film arose from Sarah Tremlett’s Frame to Frames : Your Eyes Follow ekphrastic poetry film prize, where poetry filmmakers respond to works of art. The 2023 edition II of the prize was screened at FOTOGENIA, Mexico City, and the accompanying publication of the poems, synopses and stills from the QR-linked films alongside artists’ biographies was also launched at the same time, with a print date of April/May, 2024.

About the Directors

Csilla Toldy, MA, FHA is a writer and translator from Hungary. Her writing has appeared in literary magazines and anthologies and in book form in three poetry pamphlets with Lapwing Belfast: Red Roots – Orange Sky (2013), The Emigrant Woman’s Tale (2015) and Vertical Montage (2018), as short fiction in Angel Fur and other stories (2019, Stupor Mundi) and as novels Bed Table Door (2023, Wrecking Ball Press) and Kata (2024, Open Books Hungary). Csilla creates film poems as a visual artist. Her award-winning work has been screened at international festivals and art galleries and commissioned by agencies such as the Centre For Creative Practices and the Executive Office of Northern Ireland. www.csillatoldy.co.uk

Sarah Tremlett MPhil, FRSA, and a director of Liberated Words, is a prize-winning poetry filmmaker, artist, poet and theorist. A curator, judge and speaker at international festivals such as VideoBardo, Buenos Aires, Argentina; FOTOGENIA, Mexico City; and REELpoetry, Houston, USA, her publication The Poetics of Poetry Film (Intellect Books UK, 2021) has been described as ‘A ground-breaking, encyclopedic work, and the industry Bible’. In 2022 she was key speaker and exhibitor in Tom Konyves’ milestone exhibition Poets with a Video Camera: Videopoetry 1980–2020. She inaugurated the Frame to Frames: Your Eyes Follow ekphrastic poetry film prize and a family history poetry film project, alongside TREE – a geopoetic family history research, and poetry film collection. www.sarahtremlett.com.