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~ Poet: Leonard Cohen ~
Days of Kindness by Leonard Cohen
On 30 November, 2016 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments
- Videopoems
The late singer-songwriter’s poem about his life in Greece in the 1960s is juxtaposed with footage from contemporary Detroit by filmmaker AG Rojas. It all works beautifully, calling into question easy dichotomies of urban/rural, exotic/familiar, and nostalgia/regret.
A Kite is a Victim by Leonard Cohen
On 31 August, 2015 by Dave Bonta with 1 Comments
- Animation
Elizabeth Lewis directed and animated this film based on a Leonard Cohen poem, using a reading by Paul Hecht. It’s actually an excerpt from a longer film produced by the National Film Board of Canada in 1977: Poets on Film No. 1, which “brings together animated interpretations of four poems by great Canadian wordsmiths” by four different animator-directors.
(Hat-tip: Anik Rosenblum at the Poetry in Animation Facebook group.)
