Comments for Moving Poems Forum

Comment on Poetry animator Jim Clark’s YouTube account suspended by Ben

Ben — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 08:34:13 +0000

I’ve been a follower of the poetryanimations channel for some time and had noticed the account removal and then the new account creation.

It now seems that the same “Walt Whitman House/Walt Whitman Association” has had several other poetry related videos removed from YouTube too. I had created a play-list of all my favourites and now over half have been taken down with the same reason cited as for the poetryanimations channel. At least two that I can remember were a simple blue screen with the poem subtitled and an amateur reader. One was “The Tyger” by Blake and another “The Kiss” by Sassoon (which I don’t see why the “Walt Whitman Association” should be concerned with for a start). What copyright can this be breaking? More to the point, what is there to gain in having them removed? Surely spreading poetry is within the motives of this “Walt Whitman Association”.

I’m going to look into the removal process YouTube implements. I would be incredibly miffed if they simply remove the videos on request, without the claimants producing any evidence.

If anyone could shed some light on this it would be a big help.

Comment on Submissions are open for the 6th ZEBRA film festival by Thomas Zandegiacomo Del Bel

Thomas Zandegiacomo Del Bel — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 19:52:21 +0000

Dear Dave,

Thank you very much!! We’re looking foward to the new poetry films from all over the world.

All the best,

Thomas

Comment on Pondering the audence for filmpoems and videopoems by Dave Bonta

Dave Bonta — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:50:00 +0000

You’d have to log in first — then you can start a new thread. (If you’ve lost your password I can create a new one for you.)

I don’t know what people use to create software — Adobe After Effects, maybe? — but HTML5 is what’s used to display videos in Flash-hostile environments, so any upload to YouTube, and any Vimeo upload by someone with a pro account, should be visible. (I’ve been messing around with the design of the main site, trying to switch to a theme that will show the videos in smaller sizes on tablets and mobile phones, but those kinds of themes are almost beyond my ability to tweak. Still, this is increasingly something web publishers have think about.)

Comment on Pondering the audence for filmpoems and videopoems by renkat

renkat — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:37:54 +0000

I have been away so long, I can’t figure out how to start a new post thread.
I have a question… now that I am finished with school and writing again – I have realized that the ipad has really become popular and it doesn’t run on flash. I had been working in flash. What software is everyone using nowadays to do animation?

Comment on January Gill O’Neil by renkat

renkat — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 04:55:13 +0000

I think the literal interpretation works because the poem as a whole is open as a metaphor without an obvious referent. I think if the video had attempted to show a referent in a literal way it would close the possible interpretations down. If there is not metaphor, then the video doesn’t linger on the visuals in a meditative way that makes the words superfluous. I think this is a terrific approach.

Comment on “Video & Film Poetry” group on Vimeo by Dave Bonta

Dave Bonta — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 22:48:08 +0000

Done.

Comment on “Video & Film Poetry” group on Vimeo by Raven Garland

Raven Garland — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 22:18:45 +0000

I would like an invitation to this group. Thank you. Raven.

Comment on Videopoetry: A Manifesto by Dave Bonta

Dave Bonta — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 20:28:51 +0000

Thanks, Tom. I think this really brings clarity to what works in videopoetry and why. A lot of what you say about juxtaposition, the role of text and sound, and other elements really jibes with my own discoveries both as a curator of poetry videos and as an amateur videopoemographer, even if not everything I like necessarily fits under the videopoem umbrella as you’re describing it here. While “manifesto” implies a certain radicalism or zealotry, I think your approach is more broadly inclusive than that. I personally feel that one-to-one matches of film imagery to textual imagery are a recipe for boredom and bad filmmaking regardless of how we characterize the results, so I guess I see what you characterize as “poetry video” as a bit of a straw man. Yes, there are some videos that fit that definition, but I’m not sure how seriously we should take them.

Comment on Call for submissions or your poems are dying to be a videopoem triptych by Nic Sebastian

Nic Sebastian — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 05:54:37 +0000

thanks, Dave!

Comment on Call for submissions or your poems are dying to be a videopoem triptych by Nic Sebastian

Nic Sebastian — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 05:54:21 +0000

Donna – the deadline is this weekend – Sunday September 4.