~ Videopoems ~
Videopoetry, filmpoetry, cinepoetry, poetry-film… the label doesn’t matter. What matters is that text and images enter into dialogue, creating a new, poetic whole.
Three Poems by Alexzenia Davis
Jesse Russell Brooks edited and directed this film in collaboration with the author, Alexzenia Davis. The poems are “Make Me,” “My Silhouette,” and “A Lady’s Psyche.”
The City Limits by A. R. Ammons
David Huntington‘s “visualization of the poem by A. R. Ammons.”
The Laughing Heart by Charles Bukowski
A highly imaginative remix of Tom Waits’ reading. This is definitely a case where the video improves on the poem for me. By itself, I find the text didactic and somewhat clichéd. But director Neil Chan, producer Kathryn Kelly and actress Skyler Carlin have taken it to another level.
from “i carry your heart with me(i carry it in” by e.e. cummings
http://vimeo.com/39763560
The young South African filmmaker Coenraad Viviers and his assistants had perhaps a bit too much fun with this section of cummings’ poem. (Read the complete poem at the Poetry Foundation website.)
Post-Operative Complications Following the Extraction of Memory by Taha Muhammed Ali
The translation by Peter Cole may be read at Poetry International Web. The filmmaker, Lotte Marie Allen, notes that this was
shot in nablus, ramallah, hebron, abu dis, qalandia, jericho, west bank. sinai, egypt. animations from arabic dictionary drawings, postcards, posters, roads and rock formations, my own drawings.
This Is Not A Sales Pitch by Marianne Morris
A collaboration between artist Vanessa Hodgkinson and poet Marianne Morris, according to the video description at Vimeo.
The film is a mixture of a shoot at Leighton House Museum, London, where the artist is recreating Ingres’ Le Bain Turc, surrounded by her own personal ‘Orientalist’ objects that tell her story, and footage from a british documentary on the storming of the Iranian embassy in Iran in the early 1980s, as well as YouTube footage of more recent activities at the embassy in London, but also the British Embassy in Tehran.
The work aims to combine recreation in both painterly and documentary styles of film-making, with real life events filmed by members of the public.
Written in My Dream by William Carlos Williams
This kinetic text poetry animation by Nikolaus Lesnik uses a reading by Allen Ginsberg.
The God of Sugar by Vicki Feaver
Alastair Cook‘s latest filmpoem features cinematography by James William Norton and a terrific score by Luca Nasciuti. Vicki Feaver is a highly regarded, regularly anthologized English poet with three poetry collections out.
Cioran by Peter Wullen
Peter Wullen; voice: Bart Stouten; concept, camera, editing, music: Swoon. Of all the many videopoems Swoon has put together, this may well be my favorite so far.
Subway Services by Philip Dacey
A neon animation by Jack Feldstein based on a poem by Philip Dacey.
The Last Days of the Suicide Kid by Charles Bukowski
An award-winning film by Dutch filmmaker and artist RJ (Jetze Roel van Assen).
