~ Author-made videopoems ~
Tallinas street (Tallinas iela) by Artūrs Punte
A new videopoem by poet and filmmaker Artūrs Punte and the Latvia-based Orbita collective features Punte’s own text, translated for the subtitles by Kevin M.F. Platt. (There’s also a version just in Latvian, without the English subtitles.)
Words by VIV G
http://vimeo.com/34825832
This kintetic text animation by VIV G (Vivian Giourousis) definitely qualifies as a concrete poem.
The Night My Creampuffs Fell by Kirsty Elliot
Canadian poet Kirsty Elliot describes this on Vimeo as
A little movie about the spring my dude went treeplanting and left me in a plastic shack with our 2 babies. I took my tweets and turned them into a chapbook which I then made into a movie.
I like the fact that this is more than just a video trailer for a book; it is the book — in a different form.
Antique Store by Chloe Zola
This is not, strictly speaking, a videopoem, but it’s something awfully close: a videomemoir by Chloe Zola, part of a series of videos she edited and directed in support of her book Beside My Doorstep.
graffiti angel / infinity part 1 by Kathy McTavish
This is by far the most beautiful and successful example of computer-generated videopoetry I’ve seen. I recommend expanding it to full screen, putting on headphones, and immersing yourself in the flow. Here’s the description from Vimeo:
kathy mctavish, sound, text, code and moving images – part of the holy fool project – funded by the jerome foundation and the minnesota state arts board – code generated using open source semantic web gears / pulleys / bolts / html5 / xml / css3 / javascript. This video is a screen shot of a computer-generated session.
Graffiti angel premiered at Zinema 2 in Duluth, Minnesota on September 13, according to McTavish’s website, which also includes video embeds of a number of shorter sketches.
As for the Holy Fool Project of which this is a part, according to an event description on Google Plus,
Holy fool is a live performance & multimedia installation. It is the culmination of a year-long project by cellist, composer & transmedia artist, Kathy McTavish.
On November 9th she joins forces with Sheila Packa (poet), Cathy Podeszwa (illumination), Cecilia Ramon (the infinite line), Anton Jimenez-Kloeckl (voice), Molly Tillotson (iron bells), and Carla Stetson (the map) to create a multi-sensory, immersive reflection on our times.
Tickets are available for $10 through the Sacred Heart Music Center
…which is on 201 West 4th Street, Duluth, Minnesota. Here’s their website. The performance/installation will take place on Friday, Nov 9, 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM EST.
Septate by Timothy David Orme
Filmmaker and poet Timothy David Orme notes in a webpage for the film:
“Septate” is a short experimental poem film that examines the spaces and tensions between images and abstraction via hundreds of hand painted frames.
The Laundry Room Supposition by R.W. Perkins
http://vimeo.com/45091833
Poet and filmmaker R.W. Perkins writes:
The Laundry Room Supposition is an artistic look at an average moment, inside the mind of a typical male toiling over his life, responsibilities, and what is to be.
This is Perkins’ 5th videopoem, a follow-up to “Profile” and “Over Breakfast.”
supervillain by Martha McCollough
Another striking animated poem from artist and wordsmith Martha McCollough. “All the images in this video are collaged from paintings of mine,” she notes.
Yellow by Peter Stephens
Poet, blogger, and high school English teacher Peter Stephens explained in a comment to his blog post:
Teachers return to school today. In celebration, I exercised the film rights to my last three tweets.
Follow Peter’s literary tweets @SlowReads.
Costa Rica by Zachary Schomburg
According to the Vimeo desciption, “Costa Rica” appears in Zachary Schomburg’s latest collection, Fjords (see the review by J.A. Taylor at The Nervous Breakdown). Not sure how I missed this when he uploaded it 8 months ago, but it’s as good as any poem-film he’s ever made, proving once again that Schomburg is not just a inventive poet but one of our most adept video interpreters of his own work.
the questions by Martha McCollough
Martha McCollough notes that this is
A revision of my first video from the Grey Vacation project. Sinister girl detectives
McCollough has elsewhere described Grey Vacation as an erasure project, so this is essentially found poetry, I guess (though I would argue that to a certain extent all poetry is found poetry).
The way of immolation by Peter Stephens
Peter Stephens says in a blog post introducing the video:
I had a nice day Monday hiking around the Appalachian Trail’s Roller Coaster off of Bears Den. I used my phone there to shoot this forty-second videopoem.
He added in a comment:
My first videopoem in over a year. Forty seconds long and a single shoot, so it’s not like it killed me or nothing.
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