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Carol Ann Duffy

The British election through poetry (and music) videos

June 10, 2017Dave Bonta

From time to time, it’s worth looking at major contemporary events through the window of poetry videos, to get a sense of the extent to which videopoetry and poetry film are taking part in the general zeitgeist. Continue Reading →

opinions Captain SKA, Carol Ann Duffy, Cassetteboy, Jeremy Corbyn, Keeley Ray, Longfella, The Guardian, Theresa May, Tony Walsh

Literalism run amok!

June 27, 2010Dave Bonta 3 Comments

The folks at Weirdo Productions demonstrate what happens when poems are taken too literally, using as an example the Carol Ann Duffy poem “A Child’s Sleep.” I love this, because overly literal videopoems are one of the banes of my… Continue Reading →

filmmaking, theory Carol Ann Duffy, parody

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Dave BontaDave Bonta

Dave is the founder of Moving Poems, and posts videos for his own poems (along with lots of other stuff) at Via Negativa. Here's a bio.

Cheryl GrossCheryl Gross

Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Cheryl Gross (website, blog) is an illustrator, painter, writer, and motion graphic artist living and working in...

Heather HaleyHeather Haley

Poet, singer, performer, writer, media artist, organizer of Vancouver's long-running Visible Verse Poetry Film Festival... see Heather's full bio on...

Marc Neys (aka Swoon)Marc Neys (aka Swoon)

Swoon is a videopoetry & soundscapes addict with more than 200 international collaborations to his name. You can find him at swoon-videopoetry.com.

Lucy EnglishLucy English

Lucy English is a poet and novelist, co-creator of the Bristol-based poetry film festival Liberated Words, and a Reader in Creative Writing at Bath...

Tom KonyvesTom Konyves

Born in Budapest, based in Montreal until 1983, Tom Konyves is one of the original seven poets dubbed The Vehicule Poets; his work is distinguishe...

Lori H. ErsolmazLori H. Ersolmaz

Lori H. Ersolmaz (website) is a multidisciplinary filmmaker with a strong focus on social and political issues. Her company Voices of Hope Productions w...

Ren PowellRen Powell

Ren (Katherine) Powell is a poet, playwright, translator and teaching artist. She is a native Californian living on the west coast of Norway.

Alastair CookAlastair Cook

Alastair Cook is an artist working with lens-based media, principally as a photographer concentrating on wet-plate collodion and film technology and ...

Erica GossErica Goss

Erica Goss is the Poet Laureate emerita of Los Gatos, California. She is the author of Wild Place (Finishing Line Press 2012) and Vibrant Words: Ideas...

Matt MullinsMatt Mullins

Matt Mullins writes and makes videopoems, music, and digital/interactive literature. His work has been screened at conferences and film festivals in...

Martina PfeilerMartina Pfeiler

Martina Pfeiler is an Assistant Professor in American Studies, currently teaching at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum in Germany. She is working on a new ...

Chaucer Cameron and Helen DewberyChaucer Cameron and Helen Dewbery

Chaucer Cameron and Helen Dewbery are editors of the online journal Poetry Film Live. They also work collaboratively under the name Elephantsfootprint<...

Alexandre BragaAlexandre Braga

Alexandre spent his childhood in music education before going on to study 'communication & film studies' in his home town of São Paulo - Brasil. He l...

John ScottJohn Scott

John D. Scott is a filmmaker and professor who teaches in the Media Arts Sciences and Studies department at Ithaca College. He is currently working tow...

Sigrun HöllriglSigrun Höllrigl

Sigrun Höllrigl studied literature and philosophy at the University of Vienna. She practiced journalism in the arts and media, then had a business ca...

J.P. SipiläJ.P. Sipilä

J.P. Sipilä (1981, Helsinki, Finland) is a poet and video artist. Sipilä creates compositions that generate tranquil moving images in relation to po...

Thomas Zandegiacomo Del BelThomas Zandegiacomo Del Bel

Thomas Zandegiacomo Del Bel (website) studied German Language and Literature, Romance Studies and Media and Communications Sciences in Mannheim. Since ...

Alice LyonsAlice Lyons

Alice Lyons’s poems have appeared in publications such as Tygodnik Powszechny (Kraków) and Poetry (Chicago) and as poetry films in cinema and gal...

Robert PeakeRobert Peake

Robert Peake is a British-American poet living near London. He created the Transatlantic Poetry on Air reading series. His video poem "Buttons" won...

Jordan StemplemanJordan Stempleman

Jordan Stempleman's most recent collections of poetry are Doubled Over (BlazeVOX Books, 2009) and No, Not Today (Magic Helicopter Press, 2012). He co-e...

Sarah TremlettSarah Tremlett

Sarah Tremlett, MPhil, (poemfilm) SarahTremlett.com is a British poetry filmmaker, artist, poet and arts theorist/journalist. Described as a ‘vi...

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