A new videopoetry festival is planned for Bristol, UK in October. The deadline for submissions is June 30th.

Festival organisers Sarah Tremlett and Lucy English in conjunction with Colin Brown of Poetry Can welcome videopoems of 3 minutes or less to be screened at Liberated Words poetry film festival, as part of Bristol Poetry Festival, October 2013.

There are two separate categories for this year’s inaugural festival:

Four by Four

Videopoems of three minutes or less are invited as a response to a printed poem by four poets.

The poets and poems are:
Philip Gross: Heaps
Lucy English: from ‘Take Me to the City’
Jo Bell: The Shipwright’s Love Song
Johnny Fluffypunk: Bill Blake’s Birthday Cake for Adrian Mitchell

Download all the poems here

Download an entry form here

Winning entries of each poem will be screened as the highlight of the festival at the Arnolfini, Bristol.

Liberated Words II

We are also inviting videopoetry makers to submit 3 minutes of their most recent work broadly supporting the theme of ‘liberated words’.

The selected poetry films will be shown at a Liberated Words II screening at the Arnolfini Bristol.

Download Rules and Regulations here

Download an entry form here

Download a release form here

See the announcement post for background and other information.