News Round-Up: Pandemic Edition
Festivals extend deadlines or go online, new festivals and other videopoetry-related offerings emerge. Continue Reading
interviews
Ground-breaking documentary about videopoetry now at Vimeo On Demand
Versogramas or Verses&Frames, by Galician director Belén Montero, is a unique, multicultural look at contemporary videopoetry through the eyes of 14 filmmakers. Continue Reading
How to start a major new videopoetry festival: an interview with the co-directors of Cadence
Seattle’s Cadence: Video Poetry Festival is one of the most exciting new poetry film festivals in North America. Co-directors Rana San and Chelsea Werner-Jatzke explain how they got started and what they aim to achieve. Continue Reading
“A free-form, open-ended communal play experience”: poetry, film, and the Typewriter Underground
An interview with Marc Zegans about the Typewriter Underground—at its heart, an invitation to participate in an open world of infinite jest. Continue Reading
Ian Gibbins, Lucy English interviewed about their videopoems and poetry films
Two very different but equally intriguing poets were interviewed recently in wide-ranging discussions that included questions about their film and video projects. Continue Reading
Conversation with Poetry Film Live editors
Last summer, I met with Helen Dewbery and Chaucer Cameron for a wide-ranging discussion about poetry film and videopoetry. Here’s a short sample. Continue Reading
Ó Bhéal director Paul Casey interviewed in Poetry Film Live
Paul Casey is the founder and director of the Ó Bhéal International Poetry Film Competition. As a highly multilingual poet and a professional filmmaker, his perspectives on poetry film are extremely valuable. Continue Reading
Lucy English interviewed about filmpoetry on Carpool Poetry
Clive Birnie talks to Lucy English about her filmpoem project The Book of Hours, Liberated Words, and Rebecca Tantony’s one-to-one poetry show All the Journeys I Never Took, which Lucy produced. Continue Reading
Paterson: the movie
I’ve always liked William Carlos Williams’ book-length poem Paterson, so I was intrigued to see this trailer for a feature film inspired by it. It’s not, however, based on Williams’ poem in any sense, as the director explains in an interview with Time magazine. Continue Reading
Interview with Tom Konyves at Connotation Press
In her latest “Third Form” column at Connotation Press, Erica Goss interviews videopoetry pioneer Tom Konyves. He discusses, among other things, making his first videopoem on ½” reel-to-reel videotape, being “unrecognized” by Herman Berlandt, Director of the San Francisco Poetry Film Workshop, what text-image relationships have in common with male-female relationships, and falling in love with language as a child. Continue Reading