News roundup: 6 poetry film festivals still upcoming in 2014; Poetryfilmkanal; ZEBRA’s new channels
The call for artists to participate in the International Film Poetry Festival in Athens is apparently still open. The exact date for the festival in December has not been set.
Other international poetry-film festivals coming up in November and December include:
- Art Visuals & Poetry Film Festival Vienna 2014: Nov. 5-6
- V Festival Internacional de Videopoesía – Videobardo: Buenos Aires, Nov. 5-9, and Mendoza, Argentina, Dec. 11-13
- Oslo Poesi-film: Nov. 21-23
- CYCLOP: Kiev, Ukraine, Nov. 21-23
- PoetryFilm at the Ó Bhéal Winter Warmer Festival: Cork, Ireland, Nov. 21-22
A huge thanks to the new German-language website Poetryfilmkanal (Poetryfilmchannel) for helping me remember all these festivals. The site doesn’t officially launch until February, but it already includes some very useful features: the calendar, which I drew on for this post; a timeline of landmark films in poetry-film history, with links to YouTube; and a bibliography of selected books and journal articles. The Google translation of their About page makes the project sound very promising indeed.
And speaking of great resources, the ZEBRA folks have been going all-out this week to improve online exposure to films that have been screened at their festivals, creating a new ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival channel on Vimeo, as well as a Vimeo album and a YouTube playlist for just the films from the 2014 festival. These are as yet limited to films uploaded by the creators themselves, but in time I hope that ZEBRA will be able to upload their own copies of films they’ve screened, as well, providing not only a much more complete picture, but also a more stable, long-term archive of international poetry film.
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Thanks Dave. There is also the “PoetryFilm Solstice” event at the ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts) in London on 21 December 2014. More information can be found at http://www.poetryfilm.org
Ah. splendid. I’ll post a reminder about that in a couple of weeks.
Great, thanks.