Posts By Dave Bonta

Dave Bonta is a poet, editor, and web publisher from the Appalachian mountains of central Pennsylvania.

A Border History by Forrest Gander

On 2 May, 2012 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments - Author-made videopoems
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Poem, music and film are all by Forrest Gander.

Subway Services by Philip Dacey

On 1 May, 2012 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments - Videopoems
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A neon animation by Jack Feldstein based on a poem by Philip Dacey.

The Last Days of the Suicide Kid by Charles Bukowski

On 30 April, 2012 by Dave Bonta with 3 Comments - Videopoems
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An award-winning film by Dutch filmmaker and artist RJ (Jetze Roel van Assen).

Zachary Schomburg’s Poem-Film “Your Limbs Will Be Torn Off In a Farm Accident” featured as a “last poem I loved” at The Rumpus

On 28 April, 2012 by Dave Bonta with 2 Comments - literary magazines and websites

The popular arts and culture magazine The Rumpus has a regular feature called “The Last Poem I Loved,” and the April 26 installment, by Dena Rash Guzman, focuses explicitly on the film version of a poem. This is of note not simply because it will be widely read, but because such detailed and highly personal reader/viewer responses to videopoems are far from common.

I didn’t really read the poem. The poem is a movie, too. I heard and saw and loved the poem.

It was like me. I was the poem already; my own limbs had been torn off when I moved to a farm in the Oregon woods, where I became a sort of tree. That reads as little bit new age, but I can explain the metaphor no better than Schomburg does in his poem-film. It is his own. It could be a redneck metaphor, or a hippie one, an academic one, or a Freudian one. Sometimes a metaphor is just a cigar.

I mean only to say, I met this poem at a time when it might have saved my life and I have returned to it many times since for CPR.


Read the rest (and watch the video).

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coração (heart) by Marcelo Sahea

On 27 April, 2012 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments - Author-made videopoems
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Brazilian poet, performer, and visual and sound artist Marcelo Sahea produced the text, did the reading and made the film with the help of some crowd-sourced footage:

During two months, some friends and interested people were invited to participate sending short clips of its naked bodies filmed by themselves with any types of cameras. Some of these images are part of the work that you will see.

when you land in New Orleans by Ben Pelhan

On 26 April, 2012 by Dave Bonta with 1 Comments - Author-made videopoems
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Ben Pelhan shot, wrote, edited, supplied the voice, etc. Pelhan is a Pittsburgh native currently living in New Orleans. “When he’s not playing poet he plays with whatever video equipment he can get his hands on,” according to a recent bio at smoking glue gun.

innocent beat by Martha McCollough

On 25 April, 2012 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments - Animation, Author-made videopoems, Concrete and visual poetry
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An interesting kinetic-text animation by Martha McCollough, a painter and animator from Boston, who notes in the description that it it is “Based on a page from my erasure project Grey Vacation. The wrongest thing ever said.”

poem by Syrian refugee Tarek

On 24 April, 2012 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments - Videopoems
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Lebanese filmmaker Eliane Raheb directs. From the Free Arab website:

Since the start of the revolutions, Friday has become a symbolic day for all Arab protestors, it is the day to take down the streets and ask for changing the regime. From his refuge in Beirut, Tarek who is unable to demonstrate against the regime in Lattakia, uses his pen to write a poem, in tribute to the protesters everywhere in Syria

Fireflies by Raymond Luczak

On 23 April, 2012 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments - Author-made videopoems
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Raymond Luczak signs a poem from his newly re-issued book This Way to the Acorns, which sounds great: a collection of nature poems based on memories of his childhood in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The music is by John Stutte.

Putain by Peter Wullen

On 20 April, 2012 by Dave Bonta with 1 Comments - Animation
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http://vimeo.com/40176696

(English version)

http://vimeo.com/39052134

(Dutch version)

Kris J. Yves Verdonck used “stopmotion, pixilation and edited images of Eadward Muybridge,” and notes that the “English version is slightly different from the Dutch one.”

The Lockless Door by Robert Frost

On 19 April, 2012 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments - Animation
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The graphics exist to support the soundtrack here, but I still thought it was an effective videopoem. Ryerson University film student Adin Dell advises, “Put on some headphones or turn up the volume to really hear the ‘soundscape.'”

Building a Dry Stone Wall by Melinda Lovell

On 18 April, 2012 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments - Videopoems
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Filmmaker Hannah Lovell notes that this is

A short extract from “The Hamlet”, a 25 minute documentary-poem collaboration with my mother Melinda Lovell, combining poems written and footage gathered over many years while living in a small hamlet in the south of France.

For more extracts from the project, see Hannah’s Vimeo page. Mother and daughter also run a literary micropress together, Inchivalla Press.