Comments on: About http://movingpoems.com The best video poetry on the web. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:34:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Romulo Guardia http://movingpoems.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-5332 Romulo Guardia Sat, 13 Feb 2010 18:54:49 +0000 http://movingpoems.com/?page_id=29#comment-5332 Dear Editor, We wanted to pay a “Visual Hommage” to 4 of Latin American greatest poets, Pablo Neruda (Chile), Octavio Paz (Mexico) , Vinicius de Moraes (Brazil) and Andres Eloy Blanco (Venezuela), so we wrote the images that we felt blossom when listening to this selection… and then filmed them for HBO. In times of trouble, we consider that humanity particularly in Latin America, needs to rescue the value and beauty of our poet´s message though the lens of our children. Poetry might help us to rediscover our inner self, the subconscious and beautiful images that lie deep within everyone….those souvenirs that make us better human beings, closer to the God we cherish. http://www.imdb.com/video/wab/vi2680816665/ Dear Editor,
We wanted to pay a “Visual Hommage” to 4 of Latin American greatest poets, Pablo Neruda (Chile), Octavio Paz (Mexico) , Vinicius de Moraes (Brazil) and Andres Eloy Blanco (Venezuela), so we wrote the images that we felt blossom when listening to this selection… and then filmed them for HBO.
In times of trouble, we consider that humanity particularly in Latin America, needs to rescue the value and beauty of our poet´s message though the lens of our children. Poetry might help us to rediscover our inner self, the subconscious and beautiful images that lie deep within everyone….those souvenirs that make us better human beings, closer to the God we cherish.

http://www.imdb.com/video/wab/vi2680816665/

]]> By: Boris Nitzsche http://movingpoems.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-5190 Boris Nitzsche Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:14:49 +0000 http://movingpoems.com/?page_id=29#comment-5190 This might be interesting for you: Invitation to enter the 5th ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival For the 5th time, the Literaturwerkstatt Berlin and interfilm Berlin are inviting entries for this competition to choose the best poetry films! Entries should be short films based on one or more poems. A programme commission will decide which of the films entered will be featured in the competition or shown in the programme as part of the ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival from 14 –17 October 2010 in Berlin in the Babylon Cinema. An international jury will decide the winners. The prizes awarded will be the ZEBRA Award for the Best Poetry Film, the Film Poetry Award of the Goethe Institute and the Ritter Sport Award, donated by Alfred Ritter GmbH & Co KG, to a total value of € 10,000. The deadline for entries is 14 June 2010 (full conditions of entry can be found at www.literaturwerkstatt.org). The ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival has established itself as an international forum for short films that deal with the content, aesthetics or form of poems. It offers filmmakers and poets from around the world the opportunity to exchange ideas and define positions. The ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival is a cooperation project between the Literaturwerkstatt Berlin and interfilm Berlin and is kindly supported by the Capital Cultural Fund, the Goethe Institute, Alfred Ritter GmbH & Co KG and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH. It takes place as part of the poesiefestival berlin. Deadline: 14.6.2010 This might be interesting for you:

Invitation to enter the 5th ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival

For the 5th time, the Literaturwerkstatt Berlin and interfilm Berlin are inviting entries for this competition to choose the best poetry films!
Entries should be short films based on one or more poems. A programme commission will decide which of the films entered will be featured in the competition or shown in the programme as part of the ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival from 14 –17 October 2010 in Berlin in the Babylon Cinema. An international jury will decide the winners. The prizes awarded will be the ZEBRA Award for the Best Poetry Film, the Film Poetry Award of the Goethe Institute and the Ritter Sport Award, donated by Alfred Ritter GmbH & Co KG, to a total value of € 10,000. The deadline for entries is 14 June 2010 (full conditions of entry can be found at http://www.literaturwerkstatt.org). The ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival has established itself as an international forum for short films that deal with the content, aesthetics or form of poems. It offers filmmakers and poets from around the world the opportunity to exchange ideas and define positions.

The ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival is a cooperation project between the Literaturwerkstatt Berlin and interfilm Berlin and is kindly supported by the Capital Cultural Fund, the Goethe Institute, Alfred Ritter GmbH & Co KG and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH. It takes place as part of the poesiefestival berlin.

Deadline: 14.6.2010

]]> By: Beau Blue http://movingpoems.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-5167 Beau Blue Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:41:09 +0000 http://movingpoems.com/?page_id=29#comment-5167 I guess it's a comment on my inability to see the listing when I looked, yesterday. Well, as my eyes get older they let me down more often. I see the listing there today, thanks. I probably should be embarrassed, huh? But that seems to be something else older age lets a man out of. Of course, the eyes thing could get a man killed. -blue I guess it’s a comment on my inability to see the listing when I looked, yesterday. Well, as my eyes get older they let me down more often. I see the listing there today, thanks.

I probably should be embarrassed, huh? But that seems to be something else older age lets a man out of. Of course, the eyes thing could get a man killed.

-blue

]]> By: Dave Bonta http://movingpoems.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-5166 Dave Bonta Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:00:04 +0000 http://movingpoems.com/?page_id=29#comment-5166 Was that comment aimed at Moving Poems, or Viral Verse? Because we've had a link to Blue's Cruzio Cafe in the "Other Poetry Video Sites" linkroll since this site's inception. It's there now. Under the Bs. Was that comment aimed at Moving Poems, or Viral Verse? Because we’ve had a link to Blue’s Cruzio Cafe in the “Other Poetry Video Sites” linkroll since this site’s inception. It’s there now. Under the Bs.

]]> By: Beaau Blue http://movingpoems.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-5164 Beaau Blue Fri, 22 Jan 2010 03:39:55 +0000 http://movingpoems.com/?page_id=29#comment-5164 Hello, Blue's Cruzio Cafe has been presenting poetry animations since 2005. The site has more than 75 videos and includes toons of Robert Bly, Ted Kooser, Robinson Jeffers and many, many others. http://www.cruziocafe.com ... please consider listing the link on your "Other Poetry Video Sites" roll. Thanks or your time. -Blue Hello,

Blue’s Cruzio Cafe has been presenting poetry animations since 2005. The site has more than 75 videos and includes toons of Robert Bly, Ted Kooser, Robinson Jeffers and many, many others. http://www.cruziocafe.com … please consider listing the link on your “Other Poetry Video Sites” roll. Thanks or your time.

-Blue

]]> By: Dave Bonta http://movingpoems.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-4644 Dave Bonta Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:42:49 +0000 http://movingpoems.com/?page_id=29#comment-4644 Hey, great to learn of another project! I will add your link to my sidebar directly. And knowing that there's another site very much like this one makes me happy, not only because it will help focus attention on the medium and thereby, I hope, fuel the creation of more video poetry, but also because it lets me relax a little: now I know that if/when I burn out here and stop updating, there will still be others blogging and discussing the medium. Best of luck to you, and let's keep in touch. By the way, be sure to check out the <a href="http://readwritepoem.org/groups/video-poetry" rel="nofollow">Video Poetry group</a> at Read Write Poem, too. The discussion in the "Tom Konyves" forum thread is especially interested -- Konyves himself has joined in. (It's easiest to read and comment from the forums, side, <a href="http://readwritepoem.org/forums/forum/video-poetry-forum" rel="nofollow">readwritepoem.org/forums/forum/video-poetry-forum</a>). Hey, great to learn of another project! I will add your link to my sidebar directly. And knowing that there’s another site very much like this one makes me happy, not only because it will help focus attention on the medium and thereby, I hope, fuel the creation of more video poetry, but also because it lets me relax a little: now I know that if/when I burn out here and stop updating, there will still be others blogging and discussing the medium. Best of luck to you, and let’s keep in touch.

By the way, be sure to check out the Video Poetry group at Read Write Poem, too. The discussion in the “Tom Konyves” forum thread is especially interested — Konyves himself has joined in. (It’s easiest to read and comment from the forums, side, readwritepoem.org/forums/forum/video-poetry-forum).

]]> By: Vanessa Plain http://movingpoems.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-4640 Vanessa Plain Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:49:42 +0000 http://movingpoems.com/?page_id=29#comment-4640 Hi Dave We've just added your site onto our blogroll and hope you will consider adding us to yours. We're a (relatively) new UK website, Viral Verse: http://viralverse.co.uk/ showcasing video poetry on the web. We believe verse is perfect for the web-based films, where shorter viewing times are preferred. Poetry can speak great truths in few words. And as film makers, it gives us short scripts rich in imagery and rhythm. Yet it surprises us how few dramatised verse videos exist! We therefore hope to encourage more through our website, upcoming forum for film makers and poets, as well reaching out to poets and other film makers in the web community. Hence this email! Please stop by anytime! All the best Vanessa Hi Dave

We’ve just added your site onto our blogroll and hope you will consider adding us to yours. We’re a (relatively) new UK website, Viral Verse: http://viralverse.co.uk/ showcasing video poetry on the web.

We believe verse is perfect for the web-based films, where shorter viewing times are preferred. Poetry can speak great truths in few words. And as film makers, it gives us short scripts rich in imagery and rhythm.

Yet it surprises us how few dramatised verse videos exist! We therefore hope to encourage more through our website, upcoming forum for film makers and poets, as well reaching out to poets and other film makers in the web community. Hence this email!

Please stop by anytime!

All the best
Vanessa

]]> By: Dave Bonta http://movingpoems.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-4348 Dave Bonta Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:52:53 +0000 http://movingpoems.com/?page_id=29#comment-4348 Hi Mark - thanks for sharing that link, and wecome to the world of videopoetry! The visual approach in this one is very interesting. I thought the piano music was a distraction, though, almost drowning out the words of the poem. You might consider redoing it with a different soundtrack, or none at all apart from the recitation and maybe the noise of the projector. Hi Mark – thanks for sharing that link, and wecome to the world of videopoetry! The visual approach in this one is very interesting. I thought the piano music was a distraction, though, almost drowning out the words of the poem. You might consider redoing it with a different soundtrack, or none at all apart from the recitation and maybe the noise of the projector.

]]> By: Mark Carmouze http://movingpoems.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-4276 Mark Carmouze Fri, 09 Oct 2009 06:20:32 +0000 http://movingpoems.com/?page_id=29#comment-4276 I created my first Poetry video and I wanted to get it out there for people to see. I was wondering if you knew other sites that would enjoy this video as a submission. Please let me know what you think ^_^ I created my first Poetry video and I wanted to get it out there for people to see. I was wondering if you knew other sites that would enjoy this video as a submission. Please let me know what you think ^_^

]]> By: Jessie Carty http://movingpoems.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-3492 Jessie Carty Thu, 20 Aug 2009 02:13:17 +0000 http://movingpoems.com/?page_id=29#comment-3492 Dave - drop me an email at shapeofabox(at)gmail.com if you want to be added to our mailing list or if you want to know any other vids that were made by the authors. I saw Barry's poem linked here after I posted my comment. Thanks so much! I'll try to give you a shout out on Tuesday! (we reopen to submits in Oct if you are a writer yourself :) Dave – drop me an email at shapeofabox(at)gmail.com if you want to be added to our mailing list or if you want to know any other vids that were made by the authors.

I saw Barry’s poem linked here after I posted my comment. Thanks so much!

I’ll try to give you a shout out on Tuesday! (we reopen to submits in Oct if you are a writer yourself :)

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