interviews

Interview with Tom Konyves at Connotation Press

Dave Bonta
by Dave Bonta

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 →

Poetry filmmakers Sina Seiler and Eduardo Yagüe featured in The Third Form

Dave Bonta
by Dave Bonta

This month in her Third Form column at Connotation Press, poetry-film critic Erica Goss profiles and interviews two filmmakers who should be familiar to regular readers of Moving Poems: German documentary filmmaker Sina Seiler and the Spanish freelance director and poet Eduardo Yagüe. Continue Reading →

Poet Benedict Newbery on collaborating with animator Sandra Salter

Dave Bonta
still from The Royal Oak by Benedict Newbery and Sandra Salter
by Dave Bonta

A fascinating interview with UK poet Benedict Newbury has just been posted in the Berlin-based arts magazine Chased. I was especially interested to learn how closely he works with his collaborator Sandra Salter in the making of their widely screened poetry films. Continue Reading →