A Westray Prayer by C.J. Hurst

http://vimeo.com/69640126

Filmpoem 32/A Westray Prayer by Alastair Cook

A Westray Prayer by Marc Neys (aka Swoon)
(See Marc’s blog for some process notes.)

One of the highlights of the Filmpoem Festival earlier this month in Dunbar, Scotland, was a screening of five films by five different filmmakers for this same poem, all of them employing the same reading by the author, which they were not allowed to cut up. This meant that each of the filmmakers had to decide how to fill the silence before and after the short text. John Glenday himself attended the screening, reading and introducing his poem, which, he pointed out, is partly about silence. “When we’re silent, we’re letting the world in,” he said, adding: “Silence gets all the best phrases.”

The other two filmmakers who contributed work for the screening, Ian Henderson and James Norton, don’t appear to have uploaded their films to the web, though Norton has shared his audio track at SoundCloud:

https://soundcloud.com/james-w-norton/a-westray-prayer