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
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
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
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
Interviews with Australian poetry-film makers Jutta Pryor and Marie Craven are the focus of Erica Goss’ column “The Third Form” at Connotation Press this month. Continue Reading
Erica Goss interviews a poet and multimedia artist I’ve been especially curious about, having featured several of her films at Moving Poems. Continue Reading
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
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
Short collaborations can be either a godsend or a total bust. Here’s a good example of the former. Continue Reading
This is the 20th in a series of interviews with poets and remixers who have provided or worked with material from The Poetry Storehouse — a website which collects “great contemporary poems for creative remix.” This time we talk with Lori H. Ersolmaz. Continue Reading