Top Ten: winners of Ó Bhéal Poetry Film Competition
Paul Casey and Colm Scully, the judges of the 10th Ó Bhéal Poetry Film Competition hosted a very successful hybrid event on Sunday 27th November. For Moving Poems they are also kindly working on their top ten films of classic poems, as part of a fresh series of Top Tens that will be coming to the site soon (see previous top tens). Until then, here is a top ten to celebrate 10 years of the Ó Bhéal competition with the newly crowned 10th winner included in the list with the nine previous winners.
2022 Winner
Jelle Meys – Belgium – La Luna Asoma (The moon appears) (3:37)
Past winners
2013 Winner
Manuel Vilarinho – Portugal – No País Dos Sacanas (In the Land of Bastards) (3:50)
2014 Winner
Marleen van der Werf – Netherlands – Wadland (9:19)
2015 Winner
Cheryl Gross – USA – In The Circus Of You (6:07)
2016 Winner
Marie Craven – Australia – Dictionary Illustrations (2:13)
2017 Winner
Kayla Jeanson – Canada – Descrambled Eggs (4:14)
2018 Winner
Álvaro Martín – Spain – Accident de Personne (3:35)
2019 Winner
Fiona Aryan – Ireland – Virginia gave me Roses (2:05)
2020 Winner
Peta-Maria Tunui, Waitahi Aniwaniwa McGee, Shania Bailey-Edmonds, Jesse-Ana Harris, Lilián Pallares, Charles Olsen – Māori, Pākehā and Colombian – Noho Mai (5:33)
2021 Winner
Janet Lees – Isle of Man/England – What I fear most is becoming ‘a poet’ (6:10)
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Jane Glennie’s award-winning poetry films have screened at festivals across the world. She works with still photographs to create films with a layered visual aesthetic that is abstract, painterly and floods the imagination. She is also a typographer and book designer, founder of Peculiarity Press publishing artists’ books.
