~ Author-made videopoems ~
when you land in New Orleans by Ben Pelhan
Ben Pelhan shot, wrote, edited, supplied the voice, etc. Pelhan is a Pittsburgh native currently living in New Orleans. “When he’s not playing poet he plays with whatever video equipment he can get his hands on,” according to a recent bio at smoking glue gun.
innocent beat by Martha McCollough
An interesting kinetic-text animation by Martha McCollough, a painter and animator from Boston, who notes in the description that it it is “Based on a page from my erasure project Grey Vacation. The wrongest thing ever said.”
Fireflies by Raymond Luczak
Raymond Luczak signs a poem from his newly re-issued book This Way to the Acorns, which sounds great: a collection of nature poems based on memories of his childhood in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The music is by John Stutte.
No Hurry to Find Out by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer has been making and posting poetry videos to her Ryezome channel on YouTube for about a year now, and like so many video-inclined poets, hadn’t been aware of the richness of the videopoetry tradition, as she confessed in an email: “I had no idea there were so many of them out there. It was as if I thought I had invented them!” But working in isolation did lead her to forge a unique approach, especially in regards to the soundtrack.
For more of her poetry, check out her daily poetry practice at A Hundred Falling Veils.
Letter in Response to a Friend’s Suicide Note by Holly Karapetkova
http://vimeo.com/39721815
An affecting and allusive videopoem by poet and children’s author Holly Karapetkova. The text originally appeared in The Ledge.
Over Breakfast by R.W. Perkins
http://vimeo.com/38961911
R. W. Perkins‘ latest videopoem. He says on his blog:
Artistically it is an attempt to stretch myself in the realm of videopoetry, by trying something that has proved to be difficult to do in this art form, “being literal”.
Visually I wanted something that looked a little more feminine, and gentle to the touch. Where as I spent much less time editing this piece, I spent more time on cinematography and atmosphere, I hope it comes through in this videopoem.
He also posted some detailed notes about his process that are well worth checking out.
Somewhere by Elise Stewart
Poem, vocals, music and video are all by the British neo-romantic poet Elise Stewart.
Inverting the Deer by Gary Barwin
I love this poem, and was happy to see Gary Barwin (who describes himself as writer, composer, multimedia artist, performer and educator) doing something interesting with the much-abused video slideshow (kinestatic) form on YouTube. The poem appears in The Porcupinity of the Stars (Coach House, 2010).
Epithalamium by Timothy David Orme
An interesting experimental piece by filmmaker and poet Timothy David Orme, who describes it at Vimeo as follows:
Epithalamium is a hybrid work of “poetry” and altered, erased, and intentionally damaged 16mm film–an odd marriage poem to an ex-wife, the first part being a poem for the speaker’s marriage day, the second part being a poem to the divorced wife’s future marriage, a sort of ‘future memory.’
Epithalamium is a silent project.
For more examples of Orme’s filmmaking, see his online portfolio.
Daughter and two other poems by Emily Hinshelwood
http://vimeo.com/38151568
“This is an animation of my poem Daughter which I wrote after visiting the Old Point pub near Angle in Pembrokeshire,” writes Welsh poet and playwright Emily Hinshelwood in the description at Vimeo.
As a bonus, here’s Hinshelwood reading two poems for poetryvlog.com, “Lady Cave Anticline” and “And whan all else fails.” The audio quality isn’t great, but her readings make up for it. As a bit of a geology geek, I especially like the first.
War Rug by Francesco Levato
Francesco Levato is one of the most ambitious filmmakers in the American cinepoetry tradition. Here’s his description of War Rug at Vimeo:
The film is based on a work of documentary poetics in the form of a book length poem. Multiple interwoven narratives explore life within zones of conflict as viewed through the lens of current warfare. The narratives range from passages inspired by journal entries, firsthand accounts, and news reports to poetic constructs collaged from military doctrine, Freedom of Information Act released government documents (like CIA interrogation manuals, and detainee autopsy reports), and numerous other sources. The film collages and juxtaposes archival source material with U.S. Military footage in an exploration of alternative narrative interpretations of the source text.
A Game of Sevens by Robert Peake
A film-poem by Robert Peake and Valerie Kampmeier — their fourth. For the text, see Robert’s blog.
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