Posts By Dave Bonta

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

Year Turning by Allan Davies

On 16 August, 2011 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments - Author-made videopoems
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British storyteller, artist and musician Allan Davies calls this

a reflection on landscape and the changes wrought by the cycle of the seasons.

Using the poem as a starting point, the film is an experiment in illustration/exploration of written/animated/spoken text.

The simple graphic shapes come were the original illustrations to the poem. All the rest of the images were shot using a small compact digital camera… I’ve been mildy obsessed with collecting sequences of shots for a while now, and this is my first attempt at doing something useful with some of them.

goodbye. by Kate Greenstreet

On 15 August, 2011 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments - Author-made videopoems
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This originally appeared in the online journal Trickhouse, which also printed a transcript.

For more of Kate’s work, visit her website, kickingwind.com.

Black Iris by Sheila Packa

On 12 August, 2011 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments - Kinestasis
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Composer, musician and artist Kathy McTavish has invented a compelling marriage of music and video art, here accompanied by the words of her regular poet-collaborator, Sheila Packa.

we were ten by Nic S.

On 11 August, 2011 by Dave Bonta with 2 Comments - Videopoems
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A new Moving Poems production, once again using not just the voice but also the poetry of Nic S.. This is the opening poem of her nanopress collection Forever Will End On Thursday. Nic was kind enough to record a new audio version of the poem especially for this video, since I took an opposite tack from my usual approach and tried to reproduce something of the feel of the text on the page, going line by line and using a different shot for each stanza, with a repeating shot for the spaces in between. I blogged about the process at Via Negativa, as usual.

I Met a Genius by Charles Bukowski

On 10 August, 2011 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments - Videopoems
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“A poem by Charles Bukowski meets the Icelandic Ocean.” Video by the Berlin-based multimedia artist Clemens Wilhelm.

Young David by Yehuda Amichai (with discussion by Edward Hirsch)

On 9 August, 2011 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments - interviews, Videopoems
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Avi Dabach’s marvelous film interpretation of Amichai’s “Young David” (translated by Abraham Birman) is wrapped within a video introduction and post-film discussion by Bob Holman and Edward Hirsh at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City. Hirsch describes his own, elliptical approach to politics in poetry, and says that Amichai was his major influence and model in this regard.

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Welcome to Hard Times by Howie Good

On 8 August, 2011 by Dave Bonta with 2 Comments - Videopoems
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http://www.vimeo.com/27002489

“Between the waves and the fog, we haven’t got a clue of what might be ahead of us,” Swoon writes about his latest film based on a poem from Howie Good’s Whale Sound audio chapbook, Threatening Weather. He credits Matthew Augustus for some of the images, and of course Nic S. for the reading.

Cloth by Kate Greenstreet

On 5 August, 2011 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments - Miscellaneous
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This video essay on poetics by Kate Greenstreet is itself very poetic in its use of metaphors, intuitive leaps and interesting visual juxtapositions. It features Carrie Lincourt, and credits Max Greenstreet for “second camera and second opinion.” “Cloth” was produced for Evening Will Come: A Monthly Journal of Poetics (Issue 8: August 2011).

the giant by Kate Greenstreet

On 4 August, 2011 by Dave Bonta with 2 Comments - Author-made videopoems
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Poet and filmmaker Kate Greenstreet’s most recent book of poems, The Last 4 Things (Ahsahta Press, 2009) included a DVD with two films based on the book’s contents. This is an excerpt from one of them. For more about the book and DVD, including links to reviews and interviews, see her website. Here’s her bio.

“They dropped like Flakes” by Emily Dickinson

On 3 August, 2011 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments - Videopoems
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Christopher Gains writes,

An adaptation of an Emily Dickinson poem. Created as a filmmaking challenge with some friends, this was made in under 20 hours, and served as a testing ground for a new camera and lenses.

Poem read by Nori Barber, music by Osmodius Bell

Cuba and Coltrane by Nicelle Davis

On 2 August, 2011 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments - Videopoems
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A new Moving Poems production in support of the Whale Sound audio chapbook Studies in Monogamy: Poems by Nicelle Davis. For more about Nicelle, see her bio on the site. The reading is by Nic S., and the music is a cover of John Coltrane’s “Naima” by The VIG Quartet, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license and uploaded to SoundCloud. I blogged about the making of the video at Via Negativa.

Nathalie Handal: Poet in Andalucía

On 1 August, 2011 by Dave Bonta with 1 Comments - Documentary, Performance Poetry
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http://www.vimeo.com/26482396

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http://www.vimeo.com/26482170

As the first film explains, Palestinian poet Nathalie Handal’s new book, Poet in Andalucía, forthcoming from Pitt, “recreates Federico García Lorca’s journey in reverse (from his book POET IN NEW YORK).”

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