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  • Dave Bonta 2:36 pm on April 17, 2013 Permalink | Reply
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    New possible venue for poetry films: El Aleph Press 

    Based in New York and Philadelphia, El Aleph Press aims to produce “hand-bound editions of poetry, short stories, and artistic graphic novels,” but despite this emphasis on artisanal print publication, for their first anthology they are open to digital submissions of short film and interactive media as well as poetry, fiction, art, comics, and reviews. Here are the guidelines.

    (Thanks to Martha McCollough for the heads-up. See also our full list of journals where videopoets can submit work.)

     

  • Dave Bonta 2:39 am on August 4, 2012 Permalink | Reply
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    New column on videopoetry/filmpoetry at Connotation Press seeks submissions 

    The innovative online magazine Connotation Press has just launched a new column dedicated to videopoetry and related forms called The Third Form. It’s authored by San Francisco Bay-area poet Erica Goss, who writes:

    My intent with this column is to open up a conversation about video poems. Every month I will feature a selection, so if you make video poems, please send me your work. We’ll post several submissions here. I will explore other topics such as the origins of video poems, their significance as an art form, screenings at festivals, and in-depth interviews. I’m also interested in the technical aspects of making video poems, so feel free to send me any craft tips you’ve picked up, whether they deal with cameras, software, royalty-free film footage, or sound.

    Goss devotes the rest of her inaugural column to a brief survey of the field, sharing a few films and videos that illustrate the diverse range of approaches one encounters on the web these days, and I was pleased to see some of my favorites among those she cites. I like her conclusion:

    In 1969, William Carlos Williams wrote that “a poem is a small (or large) machine made out of words” and “as in all machines, its movement is intrinsic, undulant, a physical more than a literary character.” A video poem is also a machine, small or large, and capable of transporting the viewer to a new place of understanding.

    I’ve updated the list of Journals that publish poetry videos to include The Third Form.

     

  • Dave Bonta 8:40 pm on January 3, 2012 Permalink | Reply
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    Videopoetry “for the earth” sought for 2012 VideoBardo festival in Buenos Aires 

    I’m not sure exactly how often it’s held, but the Buenos Aires-based International Festival of Videopoetry (VideoBardo) will be on its fourth incarnation this year, and the deadline for submissions is July 31st. The call for submissions is in Spanish and English:

    2012 is a year of deep changes. Humanity suffers from electronic hiperconnection and natural hipoconnection (with Nature and with the Earth that we are part of). Due to these facts, serious and urgent issues about environment, climate and humans have been provoked. We support The Earth Summit 2012 Río +20 of United Nations that will deal all those issues. We must do something as poets, artists and human beings; we must rethink all these matters. That is why our IV International Festival of Videopoetry 2012 has as specific theme “For the Earth”; its purpose will be to become aware of the fact that We Are Earth.

    If you’re on Facebook, there’s also an event page with the CFS. And do join the open group for the Visible Verse Festival, where Heather Haley shared this link and shares many other calls, not all of which get posted here.

     

  • Dave Bonta 10:59 am on September 12, 2011 Permalink | Reply
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    Two new festivals are looking for poetry films 

    Two new peripatetic film festivals are currently accepting submissions of videopoetry and other poetry-related films. South African videopoet Kai Lossgott is organizing Letters from the Sky: experimental films on climate change, which seeks “experimental film, artist’s film, video art, microcinema, animation, screen dance, video poetry” which address the question:

    How does climate change affect your habitat? Participating artists should respond to the brief and the theme of evidence of climate change. In researching a personal but informed response to the topic, dialogue/collaboration with scientists is encouraged. Using film as a medium, the complex issues at hand should be transformed into dynamic but simple audiovisual experiences with both popular and critical merit. The work may not be longer than 4 minutes. Brevity is strongly encouraged.

    The original screening will be part of the COP 17 global climate summit in Durban, South Africa, 28 November – 9 December 2011, “as well as Johannesburg and Cape Town. Thereafter, selections of the programme will travel to international film festivals.” The deadline is coming up soon — September 20. See the Open Call for Films and Proposals for more information.

    The International Literary Film Festival is scheduled to kick off in Brooklyn, New York in November, and thereafter to travel to Berlin, Leiden, and Cha-am, Thailand over the following 14 months. The organizer, Lee Bob Black, is looking for films in four categories: feature literary film (longer than 60 minutes), short literary film (shorter than 60 minutes), documentary film about literature (longer than 60 minutes), and documentary short film about literature (shorter than 60 minutes). The deadline is October 14. See the website for a submission form and additional details.

     

  • Nic Sebastian 3:33 pm on September 1, 2011 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: cello dreams, , places to submit, , videopoem triptych, whale sound   

    Call for submissions or your poems are dying to be a videopoem triptych 

    Whale Sound, Cello Dreams and Swoon are looking for poems with which to create a videopoem triptych.

    Do you have a group of three poems you’d like to have published as videopoems? They could be three of your own poems, a set of three separate-but-related poems by you and two other poets, or a set of three poems written collaboratively by two or more poets.

    We are a trio of artists — Nic Sebastian, poet/reader; Kathy McTavish, musician; and Swoon, film-maker — who have come together to pioneer this novel method of poetry publication.

    Flight, a videopoem based on a poem by Helen Vitoria, is an example of our collaboration.

    To get a sense of how your videopoem triptych would look and sound after publication, visit Night Vision.

    Send 3 to 5 poems in the body of an email to Nic at nic_sebastian at hotmail dot com or Swoon at swoonbildos at gmail dot com.

     

    • Dave Bonta 4:01 pm on September 1, 2011 Permalink | Reply

      Terrific initiative! Can’t wait to see what comes out of it.

    • Swoon 4:03 pm on September 1, 2011 Permalink | Reply

      Thanks Dave. Really!

    • Donna vorreyer 4:32 pm on September 1, 2011 Permalink | Reply

      This is a wonderful idea…deadline?

    • hassan al falak 4:12 pm on March 8, 2012 Permalink | Reply

      what an interesting concept,sorry i am too late.i have just finished the performance of a trio of my poems (i am also a choreographer ad performance artist) and we will this month make a video. it would have been interesting to collaborate in this way. i like your site! please visit mine!

  • Dave Bonta 2:50 pm on June 24, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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    SEE THE VOICE: Visible Verse Call for Entries 

    Heather Haley sent along this press release:

    SEE THE VOICE – Visible Verse 10th Anniversary Celebration & Festival Call for Entries and Official Guidelines

    Please send in your videopoem by Sept. 1, 2010.

    Visible Verse logo

    • Visible Verse seeks videopoems, with a 15 minutes maximum duration.
    • Either official language of Canada is acceptable, though if the video is in French, an English-dubbed or -subtitled version is required for consideration. Videos may originate in any part of the world.
    • Works will be judged by their innovation, cohesion and literary merit. The ideal videopoem is a wedding of word and image, the voice seen as well as heard.
    • Please, do not send documentaries as they are outside the featured genre.
    • Videopoem producers should provide a brief bio, full name, and contact information in a cover letter. There is no official application form nor entry fee.

    Send, at your own risk, videopoems and poetry films/preview copies (which cannot be returned) in DVD NTSC format to: VISIBLE VERSE c/o Pacific Cinémathèque, 200-1131 Howe Street, Vancouver, BC, V6Z 2L7, Canada. Selected artists will be notified and receive a standard screening fee.
    For more information, see below, or contact Heather Haley at: hshaley@emspace.com

    In 1999 the Vancouver Videopoem Festival, the first of its kind in Canada, began as an effort of the Edgewise ElectroLit Centre, a non-profit literary arts organization dedicated to expanding the reach of poetry through new media with programs such as Telepoetics Vancouver and the Edgewise Café electronic magazine. The VVF became critically regarded owing to its progressive regard for spoken word in cinema, presenting poets both in performance and on the big screen. The audience could explore the merits and distinctions of poetry rendered in these two forms, stage and screen, sparking new dialogue as to the essential nature of poetry. The festival then built upon that foundation, with widened explorations into poetry cinema across national frontiers. They presented significant new works from Europe and the Americas, and continued to offer Canadian audiences a remarkably broad selection of new videopoems from their own country.

    Pacific Cinémathèque has been the VVF’s partner since 2000 and throughout the dissolution of the Edgewise. Founder Heather Haley continues to provide a sustaining venue for the presentation of new and artistically significant videopoetry as host and curator of SEE THE VOICE: Visible Verse. And owing to Vancouver’s strength in the film and television production industries, Haley has been able to cultivate critical interest between filmmakers and poets, with positive consequences for both.

    To celebrate entering their second decade of showcasing videopoetry, Haley and the Pacific Cinémathèque are presenting two screenings this year as well as poetry performances, a panel discussion and an awards gala, Friday Nov. 19 and Saturday Nov. 20.

     

  • Ren Powell 9:50 am on May 28, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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    Festivals with Videopoetry 

    Biannual festival Zebra in Germany http://www.literaturwerkstatt.org/
    VideoBardo In Argentina http://www.videopoesia.com/

    (I am having a difficult time finding annual or biannual festivals. Seems most are one-offs and it’s not always easy to find the year on the webpage. A lot of information out there is terribly outdated.)

     

  • Dave Bonta 4:05 pm on May 26, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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    Online journals that take videopoems? 

    I’ve never thought of Moving Poems as an online journal, I guess because I’m just embedding stuff from elsewhere and only rarely communicating with the filmmakers. Sometimes people do send me links to their stuff to consider for MP, and I appreciate that, but it makes me wish there were a list of “real” journals I could refer them to where they could submit their work as well.

    On Monday and Tuesday I featured work that originally appeared in two different online periodicals for poetry animations, Blue’s Cruzio Cafe and Born Magazine. The editors of both sites, I gather, oversee the collaborations that result in the animations, with the expectation that poets will submit poems, not completed animations. Other on-going projects that match up poets with animators or filmmakers include Comma Film, MotionPoems.com, Synesthesia, Viral Verse Productions, and the Poetry Everywhere series from the Poetry Foundation and its filmmaker collaborators.

    But how many journals or other online venues are looking for finished videopoems? I hope the following brief list only scratches the surface of what’s out there:

    What am I missing? I’d be happy to put this list into a page if we can augment it a bit. Considering how easy it is to embed a video, there must be more online literary magazines that would consider video submissions. On the other hand, many if not most literary magazines want to be the first publisher of a piece, and that’s hard to claim for a video that’s been uploaded to a video-sharing site — and few publications will have the resources or know-how to host video themselves.

     

    • Wendy Vardaman 6:01 pm on May 26, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      Verse Wisconsin considers Video poems, along with visual poetry, for our themed quarterly on-line calls. the next theme will be announced June 1st on our website & facebook page. There’s a video poem, New Physics, in our current issue by F.J. Bergmann, who did the artwork & animation to go with her text, and we are hosting the video. We’ll have a couple of more video poems in our summer issue in July.

      • Dave 6:39 pm on May 26, 2010 Permalink | Reply

        Thanks, Wendy! Sorry I overlooked you. I’ll add Verse Wisconsin to the list.

    • Viral Verse 8:24 am on May 28, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      Thank you for the shout out Dave!

      As you say Viral Verse helps poets and film makers get together and produce imaginative online content. Video poetry is a great opportunity for film makers to experiment with smaller, cheaper productions and for writers to get stuff into the public domain.

      We also accept video submissions – in fact we love getting videos in the post! However we don’t publish all we receive. One of the biggest problems I see in videos (and the biggest reason for refusal) is poor sound quality. Wonky visuals can be appealing – a personal style. But bad sound is just bad – I may get pounced on for that comment!

      Thanks Dave for putting the list together – I’ll be checking out the sites.

      • Dave 11:42 am on May 28, 2010 Permalink | Reply

        If you do consider submissions, we’ll have to add you to list. Thanks for clarifying that.

        Agreed about the importance of sound. The hardware is probably more of a limitation than software for most folks (Audacity is a free download, and I think Macs come loaded with Garageband). Dictation microphones are perfectly adequate for home use, though, and can be had for USD $30.

    • Dave 2:37 pm on May 28, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      Don’t know how I forgot Cordite, one of the most adventuresome and fun literary magazines on the web. (The deadline for submission to their next issue, Creative Commons, is just three days away!)

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