Poet: Lilián Pallares

Cuerpos de Agua (Water Bodies) by Lilián Pallares

11 August, 2017 by Dave Bonta - Leave a comment - Posted in Musical settings, Videopoems
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Half videopoem, half music video, this new film from antenablue — director Charles Olsen and poet Lilián Pallares — features Pallares acting and supplying the voiceover together with a musical arrangement of her poem by Nestor Paz and Manuel Madrid from Poesía Necesaria. Be sure to click the closed captioning (CC) icon to access Olsen’s English translation.

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Y sonó la alarma / And the alarm rang by Lilián Pallares

12 May, 2015 by Dave Bonta - Leave a comment - Posted in Videopoems
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Columbian poet Lilián Pallares is an actress with considerable charisma in this entertaining film-poem by New Zealand director Charles Olsen (Antena Blue). The use of silent-movie-style intertitles for Pallares’ text necessitates separate videos for the Spanish and English versions, but it’s worth it, I think, for the way it accentuates the manic, comic style. Spanish composer and pianist Pablo Rubén Maldonado contributed an original composition for the soundtrack.

El sueño del árbol (The tree’s dream) by Lilián Pallares

8 April, 2015 by Dave Bonta - Leave a comment - Posted in Book trailers, Videopoems
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A videopoem by Charles Olsen (Antena Blue), intended as a trailer for the book from which the text is sourced: Pájaro, vértigo (Editorial Huerga & Fierro, 2014) by the Colombian writer Lilián Pallares. Be sure to click on the CC (closed captioning) icon to read Olsen’s English translation. The guitar music in the soundtrack is by Quique Meléndez.

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