Moving Poems

poetry in video form

~ Filmmaker: Walter Santucci ~

To Learn From Each Thing by John Siddique

On 4 March, 2012 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments - Animation

Poet: John Siddique | Nationality: U.K. | Filmmaker: Britt Wallstrom, Raul Torres, Walter Santucci

http://vimeo.com/28658512

This is “Vine Moon” from John Siddique‘s Thirteen Moons series, directed and supervised by Walter Santucci. For this one, Raul Torres and Britt Wallstrom are credited with the animation and concept.

Isn’t It Time We… by John Siddique

On 5 January, 2012 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments - Author-made videopoems

Poet: John Siddique | Nationality: U.K. | Filmmaker: John Siddique, Walter Santucci

http://vimeo.com/23682194

This is “Hawthorne Moon,” the one installment in John Siddique‘s Thirteen Moons video series which isn’t an animation. It was shot and directed by the poet himself with final editing by Walter Santucci.

What Draws Us To The Sea? by John Siddique

On 16 December, 2011 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments - Animation

Poet: John Siddique | Nationality: U.K. | Filmmaker: Clarpupia Hernandez, Dania Strong, Walter Santucci

http://vimeo.com/26261699

This is “Holly Moon” from John Siddique‘s Thirteen Moons series. The paintings are by Dania Strong, Clarpupia Hernandez did the animation, and credit for direction and supervision is given to Walter Santucci. As with the others in the series, the original music was composed by Katie Chatburn in response to the video.

Let it be dark, and it was dark by John Siddique

On 6 December, 2011 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments - Animation

Poet: John Siddique | Nationality: U.K. | Filmmaker: Dania Strong, Walter Santucci

http://vimeo.com/30260208

This is from a series of animations called Thirteen Moons. I’ll let the author, bestselling U.K. poet John Siddique, explain:

A series of 13 animated films based on a sequence of poems from Recital — An Almanac (Salt). The poems are based on the Full Moons of the year and the Celtic mythology which names each moon after a letter in the ancient tree alphabet.

The films were created when I was British Council Poet in Residence at California State University in Los Angeles. Made with determination, love, and goodwill. Animation director Walter Santucci, his students, friends and myself set to work before passing the pieces to composer Katie Chatburn. My aim was to gave each artist a free hand in what they came up with in response to the poems, interjecting as lightly as possible.

The paintings in this one are by Dania Strong. I’ll be sharing more of these in the coming weeks, but if you’re impatient, you can browse them all — or twelve of them, at any rate — at the album Siddique has set up for them on Vimeo (whence the above quote).