Newlyn Film Festival deadline extended to February 28
There’s still time to submit poetry films to the 2019 Newlyn Film Festival, and Liberated Words has an interview up with last year’s winner, Dave Richardson Continue Reading
Sarah Tremlett
Poetry films on the refugee crisis to be screened at North Cornwall Book Festival
Sarah Tremlett and Lucy English of Liberated Words will screen films from their “Home From Home” project, exploring the effects of war in the Middle East and the refugee crisis, as well as interpretations of home for those arriving as immigrants in a strange country. Between films, Lucy will perform poems from The Book of Hours. Continue Reading
Poetry Film Competition: Light Up Poole
Submissions are requested from poets and filmmakers as part of Light Up Poole, a unique digital Light Art Festival aiming to transform Poole’s town centre after dark from 15-17 February 2018. Continue Reading
Call for poetry films: Newlyn Film Festival
A new international film festival slated for April 6-8th, 2018 in Newlyn, Cornwall, will include a poetry film section. Continue Reading
Exploring Contemplative Effects in Text-Based Video Poems
In 2005 I first began experimenting with rhythmic effects in relation to text-based, minimalist video poems as an extension of my work as a painter, filmmaker and writer. Continue Reading
Videopoetry and feminism: an interview with Penny Florence and Sarah Tremlett
Radical British filmmaker Penny Florence feels that digital poetry is a medium uniquely well suited to women artists. Continue Reading
Liberated Words offers unprecedented online access to the content of its festival
The Liberated Words Poetry Film Festival brochures and films are an online treasure-trove. Continue Reading
Liberated Words festival underway, and ZEBRA releases full schedule
News from two prominent international poetry film festivals. Continue Reading
Call for entries: Liberated Words III poetry film festival
Somehow I missed this back on April 1 (I blame my feed reader), but the deadline isn’t until July 30th, so there’s plenty of time to get a submission in: Liberated Words III poetry film festival September 2014, Bristol Poetry… Continue Reading
Liberated Words Poetry Film Festival
3rd October National Poetry Day, The Arnolfini, Bristol Poetry Festival, 2013 Liberated Words is the home of the first annual international poetry film festival in the UK, celebrating poetry on screen in many forms, combining original and adapted written poems,… Continue Reading