~ Kinestasis ~
3 Erasures at War by Matt Mullins
An author-made videopoem from earlier this year by Matt Mullins, who probably needs no introduction here. As someone who’s dabbled in erasure poetry myself, I was impressed by how well he handled that. There’s quite a lot of free footage of the 1934 New York World’s Fair at the Prelinger Archives, which I’m guessing might be what gave Matt the idea for the videopoem in the first place, but regardless, I think he made good use of it, taking a kinestatic approach for a pleasing contrast with the longer screen-times of the text elements. The soundtrack glues it all together, incorporating Hendrix’s rendition of the US national anthem from Woodstock.
Every Word I Say to You by Paloma Sierra
Every Word I Say to You is a simple yet deeply touching piece by Paloma Sierra, a Puerto Rican writer, translator and film-maker. She describes the video:
The poem is inspired by my family’s experience living with Alzheimer’s. Since my grandmother’s diagnosis in 2015, my father and his siblings have dedicated themselves to ensuring my grandmother receives all the love and care she deserves. This poem is for them, my grandmother, and the many families who are living with Alzheimer’s.
Designer Supawat Vitoorapakorn, in Queensland, Australia, is credited with animation for the video. Music is by US composer, Andrew Abrahamsen.
It received funding from by City of Asylum in Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University, Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry.
Because Goddess is Never Enough by Rosie Garland
Because Goddess is Never Enough draws its inspiration from the life of Austrian-born dancer, choreographer, actor and painter, Tilly Losch (1903-1975). The film is a collaboration between film-maker Jane Glennie and writer/performer Rosie Garland, both award-winning artists in the UK. The subject is the representation of women artists in history, especially the ways their stories have been footnoted in relation to famous men. One of the film’s lines about Tilly’s place in history: “blink and you’ll miss her”.
From the web page for the film:
Tilly Losch was an Austrian dancer who worked with prominent, and cutting-edge, choreographers and artists in the UK and the US, from the West End to Hollywood. She was also a choreographer in her own right, who later turned to painting.
Through moving images and poetry Glennie and Garland investigate the elusive and fragmentary nature of Tilly’s life, evoking the spirit of the 1920s–40s when she was at the peak of her fame.
The film is about self-worth, the authentic self, and the credibility of creative women – Losch was someone who was at times exploited yet determined to maintain a path of her own making despite the obstacles that were very much present in her era… highlighting how far women have come in 90 years, and yet how far they still have to go to get recognition and true independence.
Jane Glennie’s film-making most often involves rapid animation of still images, creating a highly dynamic sense of cinematic motion. At ten minutes duration, this is her most ambitious film to date, involving thousands of her own photographs, meticulously layered with contrasting rhythms that underscore voice and text.
Rosie Garland’s expressive narration of her own poem is highly effective. Her voice alternates with that of Alison Glennie, equally as effective in the first-person sections that evoke Tilly speaking for herself. The overall soundtrack is mainly just the two voices accompanied by textural sound effects. This minimal approach proves an excellent stylistic choice.
All the different elements of the film combine organically and assuredly, suggesting a great collaboration between the artists involved. Because Goddess is Never Enough is a unique evocation of one woman’s creative life and by extension the lives of so many creative women throughout time.
Utility Pole by Fiona Tinwei Lam and Mary McDonald
A very effective collaboration between two Canadian poetry filmmakers, Mary McDonald and Vancouver poetry laureate Fiona Tinwei Lam. Here’s the description from Vimeo:
Utility Pole is a poetry film collaboration between poet Fiona Tinwei Lam and poetry filmmaker Mary McDonald. Utility Pole explores the transformation of trees into the poles that hold our communications, the many branched network that connect us, as the trees have been severed from each other and their own living networks.
The soundscape is a binaural, 360 soundscape featuring a mix of urban forest sounds, with the sounds of technology today and the pointed call of Morse code, our earliest technologically enabled transatlantic communication. Morse code recording is from Freesound.org credits, Bryce835.
This was featured at the indispensable Poetry Film Live site. Go there to read the poet-filmmakers’ bios. As they note, the text of the poem appears in Tinwei Lam’s third collection, Odes & Laments.
Call for work: 9th International Video Poetry Festival in Athens
photo: The Reorientalist, 2013 by Juan Ford
The International Video Poetry Festival in Athens attempts to create an open public space for the creative expression of all tendencies and streams of contemporary visual poetry. The IVPF has been around since 2012. It is one of the largest international platforms for video poetry. Every year, it offers poets, film and festival makers from all over the world a platform for creative exchange, brainstorming and meeting with a broad audience. With poetry readings, live performances, concerts, retrospectives, exhibitions, performances, workshops and lectures present in various sections the diversity of the genre of video poetry and spoken word music.
The International Video Poetry Festival happens in two different zones. The first day is the Show Room Video Poetry, a unique zone that will include video poems, visual poems, short film poems and cinematic poetry and performances by artists from all over the world (America, Asia, Europe, Africa). The second day is the Live Improvisation Zone with multimedia poetry readings, concerts with experimental music, workshops and live spoken word performances.
Poets, filmmakers, video and digital artists, media and performance artists are called to submit creative works to the 9th Annual International Video Poetry Festival in Athens, Greece. The festival celebrates and will screen a large scope of video projects developed through the medium of poetry. The International Video Poetry Festival will also host a series of panels, guest speakers, workshops, and public dialogues regarding film and video poetry. In addition to the screenings, programmers also curate a video art exhibition.
There are no restrictions regarding when the film was produced or if the film has premiered regionally or internationally. There are no restrictions on subject matter, theme, topic, or the language of origin. The International Video Poetry Festival will accept submissions of poetry films, filmpoems, digital-poetry, poetry video, Cin(E)-Poetry, spoken word films, videopoema, visual poetry, choreopoems, poetrinca, media poetry, and all films and videos that are driven visually by text or voice.
Live performances, video mapping, installation proposals, and grand-scale video art presentations that contain strong aspects of poetry are encouraged. The IVPF also calls for experimental film and video work that explores poetry or literature whether it be oral, written, visual, or symbolic. This includes non-narrative work and the avant-garde. The International Video Poetry also invites you to film video poems based on Allen Ginsberg’s and Gregory Corso’s poetry.
The IVPF strongly considers artwork that examines and challenges traditional visual communication methods while continuing to function as a tool for exploring poetry.The International Video Poetry Festival will consider documentaries that focus on poets, poems, poetry, poetic technique, literary movements, and historical events within these realms. The documentaries must have English or Greek subtitles.
The IVPF also calls for video work that explores poetry and literature whether it be oral, written, visual, or symbolic. This includes the film essay or cinematic essay, non-narrative work, and the avant-guard. We will also strongly consider work that challenges traditional and current visual communication methods while continuing to function as a mode for exploring narrative and personal expression.
Organizer and promoter of the International Video Poetry Festival are the Institute for Experimental Arts in co-operation with Void Network.
Every year the committee of the Institute for Experimental Arts the 10 most outstanding video poems of the annual festival. Τhe committee is composed of the official member of the nonprofit cultural society Institute for Experimental Arts.
Deadline: All submissions must be submitted, emailed, or postmarked no later than November 27, 2020.
One to two project titles per submission form is allowed. All languages are allowed (including English or Greek subtitles).
Rules & Terms
Please visit our website for the rules and details on how to submit. IVPF can also receive your submission through FilmFreeway.
Die Ameisen / The Ants by Joachim Ringelnatz
A 2019 film by Marie Craven. Here’s what she wrote about it on her blog:
The Ants was made for the poetry film competition of the Leipzig Poetry Society in Germany. The challenge was to make a film based on any poem by Joachim Ringelnatz (1883-1934), a cabaret poet and absurd humorist. Most of the Ringelnatz poems I have read are strange and funny, and very short. I chose Die Ameisen/The Ants for its whimsy, and partly because it includes a reference to Australia, where I live. It’s a coincidence too that ants have been a funny and instructive presence in my life. The film is bilingual, in German first and then English. It was a fun film to make, with music created for it by my long-time collaborator, Adrian Carter, and collage art by Kollage Kid. Both of them are in the UK.
The film ended up taking first place in the contest.
All this week I’m going to be featuring recent poetry films by Marie Craven. When she joined Moving Poems as an editor last year, our initial instinct was to avoid sharing her own films too often to avoid the appearance of favoritism, but I’ve recently changed my mind about that. Marie has become one of the most prominent filmmakers in the international poetry film scene, and it’s silly to pretend otherwise. So it’s catch-up time! Especially since Marie has just caught up on her blog, and I can simply quote her process notes for most of these films.
Call for work: 8th International Video Poetry Festival Athens 2019
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The +Institute [for Experimental Arts] and Void Network
present the 8th International Video Poetry Festival 2019
at Free Self Organised Theatre Embros Riga Pallamidi 2 Psirri
DEADLINE 20 November 2019 – Athens / Greece
The +Institute [for Experimental Arts] and Void Network are pleased to announce that submissions are open for the 2019 International Video Poetry Festival in Athens, Greece. The annual festival will be held at the free, self-organized theatre EMBROS this winter, with the precise dates yet to be determined. Approximately 1200 people attended the festival last year.
The 8th International Video Poetry Festival will run for two days in two different zones. The first day will be the Video Poetry Show Room, a unique zone that will include video poems, visual poems, short film poems and cinematic poetry by artists from all over the world (America, Asia, Europe, Africa). The second day will be the Live Improvisation Zone with multimedia poetry readings, concerts with experimental music, and performances.
We are inviting artists – poets, video artists, directors, producers – who want to visit the festival to present their art project at the Theatre. We can provide accommodation for three days (one day before the festival, during the festival and one day afterward).
The International Video Poetry Festival 2019 attempts to create an open public space for the creative expression of all tendencies and streams of contemporary visual poetry.
It is very important to note that this festival is a part of the counter-culture activities of Void Network and +the Institute [for Experimental Arts] and will be a non-sponsored, free-entrance, non-commercial and nonprofit event. The festival will cover the costs (2000 posters, 15.000 flyers, high quality technical equipment) from the income of the bar at the festival. All the participating artists and the organizing groups will participate on a volunteer basis.
The Institute [for Experimental Arts] invites the artists and creators of video poems to participate from their side in our effort to cover the expenses of the festival without private or state sponsorship. For this reason, we propose to the artists the suggested donation of 5 euros for the submission of their video poems.
Void Network began organizing multimedia poetry nights in 1990. Void Network and +the Institute [for Experimental Arts] believe that multimedia poetry nights and video poetry shows can vibrate in the heart of the metropolis, bring new audiences in contact with contemporary poetry, and open new creative dimensions for this ancient art. To achieve this, we respect the aspirations and the objectives of the artists and create high-quality, self-organized exhibition areas and showrooms. We work with professional technicians, and we offer meeting points and fields of expression for artists and people that tend to stand antagonistically to the mainstream culture.
HOW TO SUBMIT
- Click here to download and complete the application form
- Your participation is FREE. Please, if you can, add the suggested donation of 5 Euro (or more) to the following bank account:
National Bank of Greece 04664860451 Iban GR2101100460000004664860451 Swift (BIC) ETHNGRAA - Please, send the submission material via email as following:
+++ via email:
your video poems in mp4 or mov file, definition(720 x 576, 1280 x 720, 1920 x 1080)
the submission form and photos in .jpg file
(all these in a single wetransfer file)
Email: theinstitutecontact [at] gmail.com
*please replace [at] with @ symbol to send email
You can use wetransfer.com or any other FREE SERVICE to send us big files. - It is very important to name your files (videos and still images, photos) as it is shown below:
Title of video poem
Artist’s name
Country - Be careful, you have to send only one email with the application form, the link to download, the video poems or the video poems archives, the still images of the video poems and any website of your art work projects
- We recommend you add English or Greek subtitles to your video poems even if the spoken language is in English as it will be easier for people outside the English speaking world to understand it.
We recommend you send your video poems over the internet. But if you prefer, you can also mail your DVD file to the following address:
INTERNATIONAL VIDEO POETRY FESTIVAL
TASOS SAGRIS
159 KREONTOS
SEPOLIA ATHENS
GREECE 10443
Please post it no later than November 20, 2019 (date of postmark) to the International Film Poetry Festival, Athens.
+ the Institute [for Experimental Arts] will inform you about your participation in late November 2019.
Documentation of previous events
Review of the 7th International Video Poetry Festival by Michael Mantas, Film Director
Photos of previous poetry nights organized by Void Network and + the Institute [for Experimental Arts]:
International Poetry Festival London Financial Consequences Festival- 9/2/2019 at LSE- Reviews & Photos
5th International Video Poetry Festival
SPEAK NO EVIL / poetry event in WEN. 21/10/2015 Thessaloniki
More photos from Void Network art, events and actions
Financial Consequences: International Multimedia Poetry Festival in London
Financial Consequences
International Multimedia Poetry Festival
Saturday 9 February 2019
STARTS 16:00 ends 23:00
FREE entrance / doors open at 15.45
organized by
+the Institute [for Experimental Arts] – Athens, Greece
supported by
London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Anthropology
location of the festival:
LSE Saw Swee Hock Centre
1 Sheffield Street
London WC2A 2AP
“Financial Consequences – International Multimedia Poetry Festival” challenges perceptions of economic crises and provides a new point of view via a wide variety of media. For the last 10 years, we’ve seen entrepreneurs, economists, bankers, technocrats and politicians dominate public opinion; now it’s time for poets to explain to all of them the social impact of their decisions and their politics. The social awareness and sensitivity of poets — in collaboration with video artists and musicians — invited from countries crushed by the economic crises offer us the best possible view of the invisible sites of social life, and offer us the opportunity to understand and realize the financial consequences of economic crises in the everyday lives of all of us, especially of people trapped in suffering.
The Institute for Experimental Arts was founded in 2008 in Athens, Greece as a non-profit platform for creative expression and research in the fields of theater, performance art, digital media, installation, poetry and art theory. The Institute is committed to being an open meeting-point for poets and writers, directors, actors, theater engineers/technicians, performance artists, photographers, video artists, and writers who develop new analytical tools for contemporary art, media and communications.
Part A: Introductory Lectures
Saturday 9 February 2019 at 16:00 (duration: 30 minutes)
Lecture by the world-known professor of Anthropology David Graeber (London School of Economics): “How social and economic structure influences the Art World”
Influential anthropologist David Graeber, known for his 2011 volume Debt: The First 5000 Years, speaks about the correlation between the cultural sphere and society. The intellectuals and the artists create an imaginative way to criticize the economic system in any era. Art can overcome hegemonic frameworks and acknowledge other possible worlds, offering us the opportunity to better understand marginalized social entities. Social exclusion is the process by which individuals or people are systematically blocked from, or denied full access to, various rights, opportunities and resources that are normally available to members of a different group, and which are fundamental to social integration and observance of human rights within that particular group (e.g. housing, employment, healthcare, civic engagement, democratic participation, and due process). As the economic crises go deeper in time more people face the effects of exclusion. Art and social sciences can give voice to the voiceless. Young, socially aware poets especially can give us a clear view of the real social effects of financial changes.
Lecture by Tasos Sagris: “Poetry and Revolt- Political Art in the 21st Century”
Theater director, poet, and activist Tasos Sagris, art director of the Financial Consequences festival, is best known to English-speaking audiences for co-editing the book We are an Image from the Future: The Greek Revolt of December 2008, will introduce us to a new way of understanding political art in 21st century.
Part B: Video Poetry Zone
(duration: 2 hours – starts at 16:30)
A compilation of the outstanding video poems from the last seven years of International Video Poetry Festival will be screened. A unique compilation including cinematic visual art based on poetry by artists from all over the world (America, Asia, Europe, Africa, Oceania). The programme will include the most social aware video poems among hundreds videos from the International Video Poetry archive.
The International Video Poetry Festival is an annual festival held by the Institute for Experimental Arts in Athens, Greece over the past seven years as a non-profit, free-entrance event. Approximately 1200 people attend the festival every year. The International Video Poetry Festival attempts to create an open public space for the creative expression of all tendencies and streams of contemporary visual poetry. Multimedia poetry nights and video poetry shows can bring new audiences in contact with visual art and contemporary poetry, to open new creative dimensions.
UK: Maciej Piatek. Helen Dewbery. Adrian Carter UK/ISRAEL: Yael Ozsinay. Nir Philosof. Maayan Moreno Erlich. Shimi Asresay. Noa Evron. Inbal Ochyon. Valery Yuzefovic. Dekel Oved. Sivan Kotek. Dan Berger. Inbal Breda. Adva Rodan. Tal Rachmin. Talia Randall FRANCE: Eric Sarner AUSTRALIA: Maria Craven. Radheya Jegatheva. Jason Lam USA: Dave Bonta. Hieu Gray. Liza Seidenberg. Jonathan Reyes. R. A. Villanueva RUSSIA: Inga Shepeleva GERMANY: Von Kuesti Fraun. Julian Weinert SPAIN: Igor Luna PORTUGAL: Manuel Vilarinho CANADA: James Pomeroy ITALY: Francesca Bonfatti BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA: Amina Avdic ISLE OF MAN: Janet Lees TURKEY/UKRAINE: Lokal Anestezi IRAN/UK: Roxana Vilk COLOMBIA: Catalina Giraldo Velez UK/ZAMBIA: Fiona Melville
MORE INFO: find bios, videos, photos, info about the participants and general programme of VIDEO POETRY Zone HERE.
Part C: Multimedia LIVE Performances
(duration: 4 1/2 hours – starts at 18:30)
Poets, musicians and visual artists create a vibrant atmosphere with multimedia poetry readings and live poetry performances. Spoken Poetry has been growing in popularity over the last few years. A collection of contemporary poets from countries faced by financial crises are taking on an important social role in our times. Poetry communities preserve the possibility of mutual understanding by reading and performing it.
Poetry responds to economical crisis, social exclusion and conflict — all the challenges society faces. Poetry has a special role under difficult financial and political conditions. Matthew Zapruder, in his essay “Poetry and Poets in a Time of Crisis“, finds guidance in the thought of Wallace Stevens:
Poets, according to Stevens, help us live our lives, not by telling us what to think, or by comforting us. They do so by creating spaces where one individual imagination can activate another, and those imaginations can be together. Poems are imaginative structures built out of words, ones that any reader can enter. They are places of freedom, enlivenment, true communion.
Poetry Performances Live Concerts
SISSY DOUTSIOU – GREECE
LUNA MONTENEGRO + ADRIAN FISHER – CHILE / UK
TASOS SAGRIS + WHODOES – GREECE
LUCIA SELLARS – BOLIVIA
ULLI FREER – UK
POPPY DELTA – GREECE
NEFELI VOUTSINA PETSIMERI – GREECE
JUSTIN KATKO – USA
LARRY COOL – GREECE
GIZEM OKULU – TURKEY
ROBERT KIELY – IRELAND
The Poetry of Arab Spring
ELIZABETH TAPINI reads poems from a series of revolutionary, social uprisings that enveloped several Arab countries after 2010, including Tunisia, Morocco, Syria, Libya, Egypt and Bahrain.
Call for work: 7th International Video Poetry Festival 2018
The +Institute [for Experimental Arts] and Void Network are pleased to announce that submissions are open for the 2018 International Video Poetry Festival in Athens, Greece. The annual festival will be held at the free, self-organized theatre EMBROS this winter, with the precise dates yet to be determined. Approximately 1200 people attended the festival last year.
The 7th International Video Poetry Festival will run for two days in two different zones. The first day will be the Show Room Video Poetry, a unique zone that will include video poems, visual poems, short film poems and cinematic poetry by artists from all over the world (America, Asia, Europe, Africa). The second day will be the Live Improvisation Zone with multimedia poetry readings, concerts with experimental music, and performances.
We are inviting artists – poets, video artists, directors, producers – who want to visit the festival to present their art project at the Theatre. We can provide accommodation for three days (one day before the festival, during the festival and one day afterwards).
The International Video Poetry Festival 2018 attempts to create an open public space for the creative expression of all tendencies and streams of contemporary visual poetry.
It is very important to note that this festival is a part of the counter-culture activities of Void Network and +the Institute [for Experimental Arts] and will be a non-sponsored, free entrance, non-commercial and nonprofit event. The festival will cover the costs (2000 posters, 15.000 flyers, high quality technical equipment) from the income of the bar of the festival. All the participating artists and the organizing groups will participate on a volunteer basis.
The Institute [for Experimental Arts] invites the artists and creators of video poems to participate from their side in our effort to cover the expenses of the festival without private or state sponsorship. For this reason we propose to the artists the suggested donation of 5 euros for the submission of their video poems.
Void Network began organizing multimedia poetry nights in 1990. Void Network and +the Institute [for Experimental Arts] believe that multimedia poetry nights and video poetry shows can vibrate in the heart of the metropolis, bring new audiences in contact with contemporary poetry, and open new creative dimensions for this ancient art. To achieve this, we respect the aspirations and the objectives of the artists and create high-quality, self-organized exhibition areas and show rooms. We work with professional technicians, and we offer meeting points and fields of expression for artists and people that tend to stand antagonistically to the mainstream culture.
APPLICATION FORM at Google Docs
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: no later than November 20, 2018 (date of postmark)
HOW TO SUBMIT
1. Click here to download and complete the application form
2. Your participation is FREE. Please you can add the suggested donation of 5 Euro (or more) to the following bank account:
National Bank of Greece 04664860451 Iban GR2101100460000004664860451 Swift (BIC) ETHNGRAA
3. Please, send the submission material via email as following:
+++ via email:
your video poems in mp4 or mov file, definition (720 x 576, 1280 x 720, 1920 x 1080)
the submission form and photos in .jpg file
(all these in a single wetransfer file)
Email: theinstitutecontact [at] gmail.com
*please replace [at] with @ symbol to send email
You can use wetransfer.com or any other FREE SERVICE to send us big files.
4. It is very important to name your files (videos and still images, photos) as it is shown below:
Title of video poem
Artist’s name
Country
5. Be careful, you have to send only one email with the application form, the link to download, the video poems or the video poems archives, the still images of the video poems and any website of your art work projects
6. We recommend you add English or Greek subtitles to your video poems even if the spoken language is in English as it will be easier for people outside the English spoken world to understand it.
We recommend you send your video poems over the internet. But if you prefer, you can also mail your DVD file to the following address:
INTERNATIONAL VIDEO POETRY FESTIVAL
TASOS SAGRIS
159 KREONTOS
SEPOLIA ATHENS
GREECE 10443
Please post it no later than November 20, 2018 (date of postmark) to the International Film Poetry Festival, Athens.
+ the Institute [for Experimental Arts] will inform you about your participation in early December 2018.
In memory of Ren Hang
The 7th International Video Poetry Festival is dedicated to photographer and poet Ren Hang (1987–2017), one of the leading lights of the new generation of Chinese photographers. Ren Hang was arrested many times for his sexually explicit, joyously celebratory photography. Although he was globally renowned, he never gained the recognition he deserved in his home country, in part because he was repeatedly denied the opportunity to display his work in Beijing and throughout China. Read more about Ren Hang.
In his compositions of bodies among forestry, jungles and mountains, he intended to capture nothing more than the moment itself without attachment to political or sexual gestures. The process to create these moments, he once said, is both spontaneous and specific to the time and to the subject.
Photographic documentation of previous events
International Video Poetry Festival photos
Photos of previous poetry nights organized by Void Network and + the Institute [for Experimental Arts]:
http://voidnetwork.gr/2/5th-international-video-poetry-festival-sat
http://voidnetwork.gr/2015/10/20/speak-no-evil-poetry-even
Coyote Wedding by Brittani Sonnenberg
A poem by Austin, Texas-based writer Brittani Sonnenberg adapted for the Visible Poetry Project by UK artist Jane Glennie. “A key technique in her films is to take hundreds of photographs, which are edited and sequenced into rapid ‘flicker films’ and combine them with composite soundtracks,” as Gklennie’s bio on the VPP website puts it.
Call for artists’ participation in the 6th International Video Poetry Festival | Athens Greece
The +Institute [for Experimental Arts] and Void Network
present
the 6th International Video Poetry Festival 2017
Winter 2017
at Free Self-Organised Theatre EMBROS / Athens / Greece
The yearly International Video Poetry Festival 2017 will be held for sixth time in Greece in Athens. Approximately 2500 people attended the festival last years.
This year there will be one zone of the festival. The unique zone will include video poems, visual poems, short film poems and cinematic poetry by artists from all over the world (America, Asia, Europe, Africa).
We are inviting the artists – poets, video artists, directors, producers – who want to visit the festival to present their art project at the Theatre. We can provide to them accommodation for 3 days one day before the festival, during the festival and one day afterwards.
The International Video Poetry Festival 2017 attempts to create an open public space for the creative expression of all tendencies and streams of contemporary visual poetry.
It is very important to notice that this festival is a part of the counter culture activities of Void Network and the +Institute [for Experimental Arts] and will be a non-sponsored, free entrance, non commercial and non profit event. The festival will cover the costs (2000 posters, 15.000 flyers, high quality technical equipment) from the incomes of the bar of the festival. All the participating artists and the organizing groups will participate voluntary in the festival.
This year the +Institute [for Experimental Arts] invites the artists and creators of video poems to participate from their side in our effort to cover the expenses of the festival without private or state sponsorship. For this reason we propose to the artists the suggested donation of 5 euros for the submission of their video poems. THE PARTICIPATION IS FREE. Each artist can send more than one work (1 to 3 video poems for free). You can add the suggested donation of 5 euro (or more) to the following bank account
National Bank of Greece 04664860451 Iban GR2101100460000004664860451 Swift (BIC) ETHNGRAA
Void Network started organizing multi media poetry nights in 1990. Void Network and +the Institute [for Experimental Arts] believe that multi media Poetry Nights and Video Poetry shows can vibrate in the heart of the Metropolis, bring new audiences in contact with contemporary poetry and open new creative dimensions for this ancient art. To achieve this, we respect the aspirations and the objectives of the artists, create high quality self organized exhibition areas and show rooms, we work with professional technicians and we offer meeting points and fields of expression for artists and people that tend to stand antagonistically to the mainstream culture.
We would like to thank Dave Bonta from the Moving Poems, a global site with the best video poems in the web that inspired us to create the International Video Poetry Festival in Athens and we cooperate since 2012 to spread out the announcement of the Festival each year so as to gather new video poems from all over the world.
International Video Poetry Festival photos on Flickr
You can look here and here for some photos of previous poetry nights
organized by Void Network and + the Institute [for Experimental Arts]
And visit Flickr for more photos from Void Network art, events and actions
APPLICATION FORM CLICK THE BELOW LINK:
https://docs.google.com/forms/
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: no later than November 20, 2017 (date of postmark)
SUBMIT YOUR POEM(S)
Submit your poem(s) in three simple steps:
- Click here to downloadand complete the submission form
- Your participation is FREE. Please you can add the suggested donation of 5 euro (or more) to the following bank account
National Bank of Greece 04664860451 Iban GR2101100460000004664860451 Swift (BIC) ETHNGRAA
- Please, send the submission material via email as following:
- a)via email:
your video poems in mp4 or mov file (all video poems in a single we transfer file)
the submission form and photos in .jpg file
Email: theinstitutecontact [at] gmail.com
*please replace [at] with @ symbol to send email
APPLICATION 2017
HOW TO SUBMIT A WORK
- Complete the application form. You have to send it back to the email account theinstitutecontact@gmail.com
Συμπληρώστε την αίτηση. Θα χρειαστεί να την στείλετε στον ηλεκτρονικό λογαριασμό theinstitutecontact@gmail.com
- Attach 1 to 3 images (jpeg, tiff) of your artwork to the email containing this application form.
Χρειάζεται να επισυνάψετε 1-3 εικόνες (σε μορφή jpeg, tiff) της δουλειά σας στο email μαζί με αυτή την αίτηση
- Send the digital file of your video poems through internet using the email account theinstitutecontact@gmail.com.
We propose the following Definition and File Type
Definition:
720 x 576
1280 x 720
1920 x 1080
File Type:
mp4
mov
You can use wetransfer.com or any other FREE SERVICE to send us big files.
Στείλτε τα αρχεία με τα βιντεο-ποιήματά σας μέσω email στον ηλεκτρονικό λογαριασμό theinstitutecontact@gmail.com. Μπορείτε να χρησιμοποιήσετε το wetransfer.com ή οποιαδήποτε άλλο ελεύθερο διαδικτυακό ταχυδρομείο για να στείλετε μεγάλα αρχεία.
Σας προτείνουμε τις παρακάτω τεχνικές λεπτομέρειες
Definition:
720 x 576
1280 x 720
1920 x 1080
File Type:
mp4
mov
- It is very important to name your files (videos and still images, photos) as it is shown below:
Title of video poem
Artist’s name
Country
Είναι σημαντικό να ονομάσετε τα αρχεία που θα στείλετε (εικόνες και βίντεο) όπως φαίνεται στο παράδειγμα παρακάτω:
Τίτλος Βιντεοποιήματος
Όνομα καλλιτέχνη
Χώρα Συμμετοχής
- Be careful, you have to send only one email with
- the application form
- the link to download the video poems or the video poems archives
- the still images of the video poems
- any website of your art work projects
Προσοχή, θα πρέπει να στείλετε μόνο ένα email το οποίο θα περιλαμβάνει:
α. την αίτηση συμμετοχής
β. το Link που χρειάζεται για να κατεβάσουμε τα βιντεοποιήματα ή το ίδιο το αρχείο που μας στέλνετε
γ. τις εικόνες
δ. website του καλλιτεχνικού σας έργου
- We recommend you to add English or Greek subtitles to your video poems even if the spoken language is in English as it will be easier for people outside the English spoken world to understand it.
Σας προτείνουμε να προσθέσετε αγγλικούς υπότιτλους στο βίντεο σας έτσι ώστε να μπορεί αυτό να συμπεριληφθεί σε προβολές του προγράμματος του Φεστιβάλ σε άλλες χώρες εκτός Ελλάδος.
We suggest you to send your video poems through internet. Otherwise you can also post your DVD file in the following address / Προτείνουμε η αποστολή των βιντεο–ποιημάτων σας να γίνει μέσω email. Διαφορετικά ταχυδρομήσετε το DVD με τα αρχεία σας στην διεύθυνση
INTERNATIONAL FILM POETRY FESTIVAL
TASOS SAGRIS
159 KREONTOS
SEPOLIA ATHENS
GREECE 10443
Please post it not later than November 20, 2017 (date of postmark) to the International Film Poetry Festival, Athens.
Παρακαλούμε πολύ μην τα ταχυδρομήσετε αργότερα από της 20 Νοέμβρη2017.
+ the Institute [for Experimental Arts] will inform you about your participation in early December 2017.
Το +Ινστιτούτο [Πειραματικών Τεχνών] θα σας ενημερώσει για την συμμετοχή σας έως τις αρχές Δεκεμβρίου 2017.
Poem for Rent by Kim Mannix
The text here is by Canadian poet Kim Mannix, the music by Adi Carter, and the video and voice are the work of Marie Craven, who really puts the “kinetic” into “kinestatic” in her use of still images. See the Vimeo description for links to all the photographers, and listen to the complete soundtrack, “Blink Blink,” on SoundCloud.
Our last video of 2016 is also our first of 2017, since it’s already the New Year in Australia where Marie lives. And a few hours ago on Facebook, she wrote: “The turn of the year is my favorite time. For me, it is about letting go of the past and going fresh into the new.” Here’s wishing all Moving Poems readers/viewers a happy, peaceful and creative New Year.
