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Call for submissions: Rendez-vous vidéo-poésie du Festival de la poésie de Montréal 2017
I missed it last year (in part because I’m completely out of the loop with the Francophone videopoetry scene), but for the second year in a row, the Montreal Poetry Festival will include a videopoetry competition. Entries must have been made in 2016 or 2017, and either be the work of a Quebec artist or include extracts from Quebec poems. The deadline is March 6.
Video-poetry Rendez-vous will take place in the programming of the upcoming Montreal Poetry Festival, which runs from May 29 to June 4, 2017.
10 videopoemes will be selected to be screened at an evening at the Festival.
A jury of active members of the poetic and video community will present a prize of $ 500 to the winner of the competition.
Thus Google Translate. Here’s the whole call in French. It’s not clear whether videopoems in the other languages of Quebec, such as English or Cree–Montagnais–Naskapi, would be considered.
Call for Entries: Juteback Poetry Film Festival 2017
The late, lamented Body Electric Poetry Film Festival is back with a new name! The Juteback Poetry Film Festival will take place on May 20th at the Lyric Cinema Cafe in Fort Collins, Colorado. Festival director R.W. Perkins will collaborate with Matt Mullins to program the festival. They note:
At the Juteback Poetry Film Festival we are looking for innovative and technically sound filmmaking, coupled with a strong grasp of poetics. It is our hope to showcase a wide range of talented film-poets from around the world to best represent the budding art form of videopoetry.
Submit online through the website. I’ll paste in the instructions:
THE JUTEBACK POETRY FILM FESTIVAL SUBMISSION GUIDE
- All films must be submitted online. Please use the form below to complete your submission. To submit please load your film to Youtube, Vimeo or media sharing site of your choice, then provide the link in your submission. If you choose to use a privacy setting on either Youtube or Vimeo please be sure to provide us with a proper access code to view your film.
- All films must be completed before the deadline of April. 16th, 2017. As long as your film has been completed before the April 16th deadline please feel free to submit.
- All non-English films must have English sub-titles.
- All films selected for the festival grant Juteback Productions, LLC the rights to use all video images and press materials from the film for promotional purposes.
- Juteback Productions, LLC is permitted to retain copies of each film selected as part of our festival library and for media educational use.
- You may submit more than one film, please repeat process for each entry.
- Films must be no more than 15 minutes in duration.
Submit here. And follow the festival on Facebook and Twitter.
Call for entries: Art Visuals & Poetry Film Festival 2017
The Vienna-based Art Visuals & Poetry Film Festival 2017 is 11 months away, but they’ve already issued a call for submissions. The deadline is March 30. Here’s the English-language version of their call. Note that the primary focus of the festival is on German-language films, but, they say,
we will increase the amount of international film screenings by adding another festival day. It will be a single day for international films. These films will be chosen by curators within a network of European poetry film festivals.
MAIN COMPETITION Please be aware: We can only accept competition entries from German speaking countries (residency or nationality) for the main competition. German language in the films is wanted. Exceptions will be made, when the literature shorts show an outstanding quality and offer German subtitles.
INTERNATIONAL AWARD We know, that there is a great interest from the international community to participate. Therefore we have created a second competition called „SPECIAL AWARD“ after a given festival poem. This competition is open to film makers from all over the world. For the next Poetry Film Festival we have chosen a love poem from Rainer Maria Rilke. It is called „To Lou Andre Salome“. The poem was written in 1911. You can download the spoken version of Rainer Maria Rilkes’ „Tou Lou Andre Salome“ in German for free. We also provide you with a licensed English translation of the festival poem under creative commons. It’s very interesting, that this kind of competition attracts many professionals who like to experience different versions of films based on the same text. On the other hand, it offers people a easy chance to make their first poetry movie in their life.
SIDE PROGRAM Beside the competition screenings we will offer an international film program in co-operation with selected curators, talks, poetry readings and a multimedia performance. Please keep in touch with us to find out more about the festival program.
CURATORS & JURY The Art Visuals & Poetry Filmfestival in Vienna is directed by Sigrun Höllrigl. Hubert Sielecki supports her as a curator. Beside there will be an independent competition jury selecting the winner films and honorable mentions.
PRIZES There will be two prizes for the winners. The prize-money will be fixed with our partners and sponsors. I can not go into details. Due to a major change in art funding in Austria, we will know the results very late this time – it means appr. 4 months before the festival start. We now plan to award the best film of both competition with a cash prize.
FESTIVAL Selected films will be presented in curated programs during the Art Visuals & Poetry Filmfestival Nov 9-11, 2017 in Vienna. We will let you know our program over the website.Beside the festival we organize poetry film screenings with other partners. Please let us know, if you want to be part of it.
SUBMISSIONS Competition deadline is March 30, 2017. The screening copies of the selected film makers should arrive until June 30, 2017. You can submit by following this link and by filling in this online submission form. For all platform users of filmfreeway and festhome there’s an entrance fee of 15 Euro to cover the efforts selecting the specific poetry films among the submitted films. Please read carefully the guidelines! We are a Poetry Film Festival! We only take literature & poetry films either from German speaking countries or poetry films dedicated to the given Rilke poem of the festival.
CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION / GUIDELINES & RULES / Deadline for entries March 30, 2017
For a successful participation these rules need to be followed:
-The submitted literary short film or poetry film has a length of 2 until 20 minutes max. and is based on a literary short text or poem.
-EITHER: The film maker or director has an Austrian, German or Swiss passport or residency. Further international collaborations (composer, writer) in the team are welcomed. OR for the second competition: The film is based on our festival poem from Rainer Maria Rilke. You can make a new recording based on the German original text or use the voice recording we offer. Remixes of the existing voice over are allowed.
– The film is not older than 10 years (2007).
– The film has not been submitted before.
– ART VISUALS & POETRY is granted the right to screen the film in the context of the competition and the festival.
– The application and copyright declaration arrive in time. Deadline is March 30, 2017. We prefer a sighting via internet link (password protected, vimeo, You Tube, dropbox). You can onpass additional film information via e-mail: office@poetry.or.at
– SCREENING FORMAT: We only accept films in the following formats: mov or mp4 File, H264, Sound uncompressed, 48 000 kHz, 16 bit. The films will be converted into DCP format.We wish you good luck & happy work!
Sigrun Höllrigl, your festival directrice & her team
New Cinepoems organization announces 48-hour filmpoem challenge in Glasgow
Cinepoems is “a new organisation for exploring, developing and promoting filmpoetry in Scotland, Quebec and everywhere,” and “is currently run by poet Rachel McCrum (Edinburgh) and a loose collective of film makers and poets in Scotland and Quebec.” This week they announced their first live event, a 48-hour challenge for poetry filmmakers.
What?
It’s the first live event from cinepoems in Scotland! Poets, writers, filmmakers, performers, artists…your participation is wanted! Let’s make some filmpoems in one glorious weekend…
The challenge….
Get a team together. Find something to film with. Some editing software (you will probably have this on your computer already). Get yourself to Glasgow University on Friday 2nd December for a workshop and registration and then GO!
You have 48 hours to write, film, edit and submit a filmpoem (up to 5 minutes long), and then be at the Andrew Stewart Cinema, University of Glasgow, for 6pm on Sunday 4th December. All filmpoems will then be screened, and our panel of judges will award prizes to the top three filmpoems. Other hijinks will ensue.
What do you mean by ‘filmpoetry’?
Film + poetry, image + text + sound (maybe). It’s that simple. Filmpoetry, videopoetry, cinepoetry…whatever you want to call it…is an artform that has been around as long as cinema. From the experiments of Dada artists in the 1920s to the work of Scottish artist Margaret Tait to viral videos on Youtube today. It can include performance, text on screen, animation, abstract images, sound. There are hundreds of ways to make filmpoems, as many different forms as there are forms of poetry or genres of film.
We’ll be releasing some more examples of filmpoems over the next few weeks, along with tips on filming, editing and formats. Keep an eye on the blog here, and follow us on @cine_poems on Twitter or join the Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/cinepoems.
In the meantime, these sites might give you some ideas:
- Moving Poems: https://movingpoems.com/
- filmpoem : http://filmpoem.com/
- LUX online : http://www.luxonline.org.uk/
- ZEBRA poetry film festival: http://www.zebrapoetryfilm.org/2016
- Liberated Words: http://liberatedwords.com/
- Videopoetry: A manifesto – Tom Konyves https://critinq.wordpress.com/2012/10/13/videopoetry-a-manifesto-by-tom-konyves/
Watch some. The key components are text, image and sound (not necessarily in that order). Don’t get intimidated or bogged down in either terminology or technology. The aim of this event is get people together and creating: DIY, grassroots, punk filmmaking, poetry, sound. Be bold, be brave, be beautiful. Let’s throw the cats out.
The only rules for the 48hour event are…
- The filmpoem MUST be written and filmed over the 48 hours of the December weekend – no cheating with pre-made films or pre-written poems!
- The filmpoem must be under 5 minutes long.
- The submitting team (or at least a representative) must be there IN PERSON to deliver the finished filmpoem to the cinepoems team by 6pm on Sunday 4th December at the Andrew Stewart Cinema, University of Glasgow. Online entries will not be accepted. However, online registration for the event will be open 5- 6pm on Friday 2nd December if you can’t make the workshop in person.
Does it cost anything?
Cost of registration is £10* per team. Payable in person on 2nd December or via online registration, which will open on the day.
What next?
Follow cinepoems on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/cinepoems
and on Twitter here: @cine_poems
for further updates over the next few weeks. Get the dates in your diary. Get a team together. See you on the 2nd December!
Love
the cinepoems team
*cinepoems is a non-profit organisation. All fees from this event will go towards venue hire and fees for judges.
Update on The Book of Hours project; more collaborators sought
My PhD is now half way through! Last week I passed the half way assessment and I am on course to finish by 2018. There are now nineteen films for The Book of Hours and my target is 48 films in total.
Four new ones were uploaded this week, made by Janet Lees, Carolyn Richardson, Maciej Piatek and Claire Ewbank. Please have a look at the site and see how it is progressing! I am now experimenting with voices other than mine and innovative approaches. Janet’s film used a ‘mix’ of five of my poems from the Poetry Storehouse.
Loki continues to develop the site and its final appearance will be more elaborate. For now we are gaining content and making sure the films play smoothly.
Seven more are in production, to be made by Shane Vaughan, Katia Visconglesi, Lori Ersolmaz, David Richardson, Eduardo Yague, Sarah Tremlett and Kathryn Darnell. Hopefully these will be finished by the end of year.
So far ‘Postcard From my Future Self’ was screened at Visible Verse. ‘Shop’ was selected for Lisbon. ‘Aubade’ is due to be screened in Athens and ‘What is Love’ was voted poetry film of the month!!!! I am delighted that these films are finding new audiences!!! Sarah Tremlett is going to interview me for her forthcoming book on poetry film and I will discuss the challenges of creating such a large curated collection.
I am looking for more collaborators to make more films and I would also like to hear about other curated collections of more than twenty films.
Wild Whispers Poetry Film Project
The project is exploring adaptation and collaboration in poetry film by sending a poem and a poetry film across the world, to be translated into a new poetry film and passed on. We will be aiming for 12 poetry films in different languages all ‘whispered’ from the previous one.
The first poetry film in the Wild Whispers Project, Frog on Water, is by poetry filmmakers Chaucer Cameron and Helen Dewbery. The final poetry films will be toured to public audiences and a book of the poems and images will be published.
If any poetry filmmakers/and or translators would like to take part in this international poetry film collaboration, please would you contact us, Helen or Chaucer, at elephantsfootprint.com or directly by email.
Call for submissions: Atticus Review
The Mixed Media section of the Atticus Review seeks videopoems/filmpoems/cinepoems and short or experimental films of all lengths, shapes, sizes and types. We’re also interested in remixes, mashups and interactive/digital literature. Submissions can be sent via the submission manager at the Atticus Review.
Feel free to contact Mixed Media Editor Matt Mullins at m-mull@hotmail.com if you have any questions or queries.
Call for submissions: 5th International Video Poetry Festival in Athens
From The +Institute [for Experimental Arts] website, here’s the announcement of the fifth annual poetry film.video festival in Athens:
The +Institute [for Experimental Arts] and Void Network
present
the 5th International Video Poetry Festival 2016
Winter 2016
at Free Self-Organised Theatre EMBROS / Athens / GreeceThe yearly International Video Poetry Festival 2016 will be held for fifth time in Greece in Athens. Approximately 2500 people attended the festival last years.
There will be two different zones of the festival. The first zone 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 zone will include cross-platform collaborations of sound producers and music groups with poets and visual artists in live improvisations.
The International Video Poetry Festival 2016 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 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 to the festival. This year is the first time where it will be a submission fee for the participation to the festival in order to cover the expenses of the festival. The submission fee is 5 euro for the participation. Each artist can send more than one work. (1 to 3 video poems)
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 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.
Please click through and scroll down for information on how to submit. The deadline for submissions is November 20, 2016.
(And thanks to the festival organizers for their kind words about Moving Poems, by the way. It’s always a pleasure to help spread the word about events showcasing poetry films and videos—the more innovative and eclectic, the better.)
Call for Contributions to Poetryfilm Magazine on Sound and Voice-over in Poetry Film
Poetryfilm Magazine, the multilingual, digital and print publication from Poetryfilmkanal, has just issued a call for essay contributions to its next issue, which has the theme “Ton und Voice-over im Poetryfilm” (Sound and Voice-over in Poetry film). I’ll reproduce the English-language version below. There’s also a version in German.
Dear reader,
a film poem might be seen as a visual illustration of a metaphoric text. Beyond that, the sound is a fundamentally important element. Music, voice and sound design have to be considered as essential aspects that add to the whole of the audiovisual experience of a poetry film.
Particularly the recitation is of central importance. No matter if visuals and sound were adapted to the poet’s recital of his text or if the visual part was created prior to the voice-over, the poetry film genre has always been an important experimentation field. More than in dialogue-based fiction films, single words play a key role.
The voice itself is not a neutral media. It intensifies and interprets the poem. Maybe it comments, parodies or even attacks it instead of bringing it into its service. Moreover, it has to adapt or to be adapted to the complex rhythm of the moving imagery, the edit, the foley, the sound and the music. This can happen in various ways. When the relation between the visual and the sound level is redundant, it might be perceived as a disturbance. Complementing one another, the two might create a third level which can add an additional meaning, an audiovisual surplus (Michel Chion) to the text.
Sounds, tones and noises have an impact on the emotional value of a film and guide our visual perception. What we see depends on what we hear. Even what we don’t hear can gain a presence through the sound. As poetry films live from their mood and their atmosphere, they rely fundamentally on the sound design’s qualities.
In her contribution to the first Poetryfilm Magazine’s edition Stefanie Orphal states that the fascination of the poetry film genre can be pointed out particularly well through the consideration of the sound. This is why a charismatic voice and an experienced sound designer should be engaged in the production process wherever possible.
When the music dominates and the beat remains a minor element, the poetry film draws near the genre of the music video. Music videos and video installations can be seen as poetry films, whereas songs and tunes can be interpreted as poetry. Various transitions and crossover forms can be found in this field regarding the visual language, the way of singing or reciting as well as in the complexity of the texts.
Call for Essays
We are looking for submissions for our Poetryfilm Magazine’s second edition, which will focus on aspects of sound and voice-over in poetry film. We are interested to initiate an interdisciplinary exchange of views on and experiences about recitation, music, noise, sound and artistic sound design in poetry film. Essays can be based on a historical research, a film analysis or a theoretical reflection – important to us is the practical approach, through which the filmmakers as well as the audience can gain a better understanding of the genre.
The contributions in the magazine’s first edition »Fascination Poetryfilm?« were held short on purpose, as we wanted to give as many authors as possible a chance to raise their voice. From now on, we are planning to publish longer texts of up to 10.000 signs (without footnotes wherever possible). We are hoping for submissions which lead us to open discussions and unexpected perspectives onto the topic. The second edition of the magazine will be published in time for this year’s ZEBRA-Festival, which for the first time will take place in Münster.
Aline Helmcke, Guido Naschert
For those who may not have read it yet, the inaugural issue of the magazine is available as a PDF.
Submissions Open for the Third Rabbit Heart Poetry Film Festival
Press release from 29 February. (I was on the road.) Dear other poetry film festival organizers: Please send me press releases like this one, OK? —Dave
WORCESTER, MA – Doublebunny Press announces today that submissions have opened for the third Rabbit Heart Poetry Film Festival.
The Rabbit Heart Poetry Film Festival is a competition meant to highlight poetry and visual art at the intersection of film. The festival, due to take place in Worcester in October of 2015 focuses on short films that illustrate original poems, all of which are non-performance based (read: no footage of the poems being performed).
As well as a $200 prize for Best Overall Production, Rabbit Heart will be awarding $100 prizes in six other categories: Best Animated, Best Music/Sound, Best Smartphone Production, Best Under 1 Minute, Best Valentine, and the Shoots! youth prize. The gala awards ceremony and viewing party will be at Nick’s Bar in Worcester, MA on October 22nd.
About Doublebunny Press
Doublebunny Press is a small independent press that serves the New England area through poetry design, layout, and production of fine books and posters. Doublebunny also supported Omnivore Magazine, a poetry and arts monthly which, during its three-year run, published poetry and articles by over 150 authors, and carried a national subscription base.
Doublebunny has a history of great spoken word events in Worcester. They combined forces with The Worcester Poets’ Asylum to present V Day to the city in 2002 and 2003, and the Individual World Poetry Slam in 2005. In 2014, Doublebunny brought the inaugural Rabbit Heart Poetry Film Festival to the city, and in now for the third year’s festival, they plan an even more exciting show for Worcester, inviting the imagination of poets and filmmakers to once again take center stage.
About Rabbit Heart Poetry Film Festival
Rabbit Heart Poetry Film Festival is one of very few outlets in the US for poetry on film, and the only festival that asks that the author of the poem participate in the making of the production. In 2014 and 2015 Rabbit Heart attracted international attention, including not only European submissions, but the honor of a showcase in the CYCLOP festival in Ukraine and showings in Barcelona, Spain at pro.l.e.
This year Rabbit Heart Poetry Film Festival has been recognized with a grant from the Worcester Arts Council. Here’s the official language: This program is administered by the Worcester Arts Council, for the Local Cultural Council – an agency supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
Submissions are now open for the 2016 Rabbit Heart Poetry Film Festival, and will remain open through July 1st.
To learn more about this event, please go to:
www.doublebunnypress.com and click on the menu link to Rabbit Heart Poetry Film Festival
