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
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
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
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
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