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SINESTESIA releases 2017 videopoetry line-up
The annual SINESTESIA videopoetry screening in Barcelona is scheduled for next Friday, May 19. Here’s a quick-and-dirty translation of their post announcing this year’s selection:
As we announced a few days ago, the latest edition of Barcelona’s SINESTESIA International Videopoetry Show will be held on May 19 at the Bonne Centre de Cultura de Dones Francesca Bonnemaison. This year as always, thanks for their cooperation to the videopoets and other individuals and entities interested in this discipline, above all for announcing the call in videopoetry-related websites. We have received more than 180 works from 66 artists from all continents, so we must say THANK YOU to everyone for your support.
Even though this is the third year that SINESTESIA has been held, it is still a growing project and we do not have enough time to be able to screen all the received videopoems, although we would love to. We have also been surprised by the high quality of the work in general, which has made the selection process very difficult. So after watching over and over, we have selected these 24 works for SINESTESIA 2017.
THANK YOU ALL FOR PARTICIPATING AND MAKING THIS GROW!
Fucking him / Adrián García Gómez
Poema Cas’leluia & Final Brega / Bagadefente
To lend a tongue / Celia Parra
The afternoon / Charles Olsen
The hero is light / Eduardo Yague / Matt Mullins
Equus Caballus / H. Paul Moon
You will not return / Hernán Talavera
Words / James Pomeroy
A wave of thoughts / José Luis Ugarte
A few maxims / Kevin Cameron
The expiration / Lotus Hannon
Numbers / Maciej Piatek
Kill oneself / Manuel Onetti
I do not enjoy any reprieve / Maria Khan
First grade activist / Marie Craven
From nowhere with love / Mariia merkulova
Variations / Martín Klein
The garden of love / Miguel Maldonado
Smartuser / Kuesti Fraun
Allegory / Nobillis Bellator
More / Elena Chiesa
Opmeit / Ramon Bartrina
Aleppo / Swoon
Last message from Mr Cogito / Anna Woch
Call for videopoems: SINESTESIA 2017
For the third year in a row, SINESTESIA is mounting an international exhibition of videopoems during Barcelona’s Poetry Week in June. The call is in Spanish (here’s the Google Translate version), but submissions are welcome in English, Spanish or Catalan, or with subtitles in one of those languages. With all the emphasis on conventional filmmaking in so many poetry film festivals, it’s refreshing to see Tom Konyves’ manifesto quoted in a call for work.
Speaking of poetry film festivals generally, I’ve just attempted a long-overdue update of Moving Poems’ list of active festivals. I say “attempted,” because it often isn’t clear if a festival has simply taken a year off or has run its course. If they’ve gone two years or more with no update, I assume it’s time to start talking about them in the past tense. In cases where the website has disappeared, but it’s only been a year since the last festival, I’ll leave the listing up. At any rate, please let me know if there are other festivals or regular screening events I should include.
Upcoming poetry-film and videopoetry screenings
Autumn is usually a busy time for poetry-film events around the world, and I never quite manage to announce all of them, but it’s interesting to note their number and diversity even if this comes too late for some. In that category goes this past Friday’s screening of videopoetry in Mallorca, Sinestesia, with twelve films from Spain and abroad. It’s not too late, though, for anyone in Argentina this week to make plans to attend one of VideoBardo’s 20th anniversary festival screenings from the 8th to the 12th. And even those of us who can’t make it should extend our congratulations to the festival’s organizers for an extraordinarily long and successful run.
Coming up a week from Wednesday, on November 16, the winning films from this year’s ZEBRA festival will be screened in Berlin at the Zebra Poetry Gala.
The ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival Münster/Berlin celebrates its prizewinning films. Shortly after the 8th edition of the festival has been brought to a close in Münster, the winners of four competitions come to Berlin. “Kino-King” Knut Elstermann from radioeins presents the winning films and filmmakers, along with musical guests.
And finally, I’ve gotten word of one more screening of Justin Stephenson’s poetry film The Complete Works, for a total of two remaining in 2016: the first at the Niagara Artists Centre in Saint Catharines, Ontario on November 23 at 8:00 p.m., and the second in Winnipeg at the Cinemateque on December 15 at 7:00 p.m.
I should also note that although no date has been set yet for International Film Poetry Festival in Athens (sometime in December, I guess), submissions remain open through November 20.
