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  • Heather Haley 12:35 pm on June 14, 2013 Permalink | Reply
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    VISIBLE VERSE FESTIVAL 2013 Call for Entries and Official Guidelines 

    • VVF seeks videopoems with a 12 minutes maximum duration.
    • 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.
    • Either official language of Canada is acceptable, though if the video is in French, an English-dubbed or-subtitled version is required. Videopoems may originate in any part of the world.
    • Please submit by sending the URL for your videopoem along with a brief bio, full name, and contact information to Artistic Director Heather Haley at hshaley@emspace.com. There is no official application form nor entry fee.

    VISIBLE VERSE FESTIVAL Oct. 2013 DEADLINE: Aug. 1, 2013

     

  • Heather Haley 6:57 pm on February 8, 2013 Permalink | Reply
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    VISIBLE VERSE FESTIVAL 2013 Call for Entries and Official Guidelines 

    • VVF seeks videopoems with a 12 minutes maximum duration.
    • 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.
    • Either official language of Canada is acceptable, though if the video is in French, an English-dubbed or-subtitled version is required. Videopoems may originate in any part of the world.
    • Please submit by sending the URL for your videopoem along with a brief bio, full name, and contact information to Artistic Director Heather Haley at hshaley@emspace.com. There is no official application form nor entry fee.

    VISIBLE VERSE FESTIVAL Oct. 2013, Vancouver, BC
    DEADLINE: Aug. 1, 2013

    See the website for more, including a postmortem on Visible Verse 2012. To view more videopoems by various artists, visit Visible Verse on Facebook.

     

  • Dave Bonta 11:49 am on November 7, 2012 Permalink | Reply
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    Visible Verse Festival organizer posts detailed “post-mortem” 

    Heather Haley, indefatigable organizer of Vancouver’s Visible Verse Festival, has just blogged a detailed account of this year’s festival, complete with descriptions of, and links to, each poetry film in the lineup.

    “The best year yet!” is what I was told repeatedly. Good turnout, a bit of press coverage, and wonderful new staff to work with, the festival is definitely entering a new phase. Changing the date from November to October, immediately following the Vancouver International Film Festival helped raise our profile, and get more bums in the seats.

    Go read the rest.

     

  • Dave Bonta 11:16 pm on November 2, 2012 Permalink | Reply
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    New reviews of recent poetry film festivals 

    Shannon Raye at reviewVancouver shared some impressions of the Visible Verse Festival of Video Poetry, which was held on October 13 in Vancouver, British Columbia.

    I have attended the last five years of the video poem festival, and this was my favorite year because of the diversity and quality of the work presented. Curator Heather Haley did a remarkable job bringing a full roster of culturally and artistically diverse video poems to the festival, which made for a fun and eclectic evening. Videos ranged from quirky anime and sci-fi fantasy to beautifully filmed short films with a narrative structure. I enjoyed the way the 38 video poems were presented, with funnier work following sentimental pieces, and experimental images following work that had more of a short-film feel.

    One of the highlights for me was the number of international video poems. This year had a very global feel, with many European countries represented. In addition, there was a sizable selection of video poems exchanged from Argentina’s Video Bardo Festival.

    Read the rest.

    Erica Goss travelled to Berlin for the ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival held October 18-21, and this month in her Third Form column at Connotation Press offers the first of a two-part review of the event.

    Watching poetry films as part of an audience is a new experience for me. Before the festival, I had only watched them at home on my computer, and usually alone. Sitting with other people in a dark theater while a series of intense, image-rich films rolled by on the big screen allowed me to examine them critically; for every film, I asked myself these questions: was it interesting? Did it create an alternative world? Was there a social, cultural, emotional, or intellectual message? Did the video enhance or detract from the poem? Was I startled, amazed, frightened or bored?

    Check it out.

     

  • Heather Haley 11:41 am on August 17, 2012 Permalink | Reply
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    Vancouver’s Visible Verse Festival goes global! 

    Reposted from the Visible Verse Facebook page

    We have lots of exciting changes in store for this year’s Visible Verse Festival! The date has been moved from November to Saturday, October 13, directly following the Vancouver International Film Festival and the program, still in the works, will include entries from 56 international artists and 100 videopoems from Australia, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Norway, Portugal, Poland, Russia, the U.S. and Canada. And for the first time, we are exchanging videopoems with Argentina’s VideoBardo Festival and featuring a selection from their 2012 program. As well, we are happy to host Alberta artist Phillip Jagger who will perform his poetry and present “Reigning In Chaos: Words Into Video”, a hands-on workshop demonstrating the use of handcrafted video, a Kaos pad, iPod and video jamming software.

    With videopoetry and poetry film festivals and sites popping up all over the world, Vancouver and Pacific Cinematheque’s Visible Verse Festival maintains its position as North America’s sustaining venue for artistically significant videopoetry. As founder of the Vancouver Videopoem Festival and Visible Verse, curator and host Heather Haley has provided a venue for the genre since 1999 and vigorously contributed to the theoretical knowledge of the form. Haley is to be honored for her work with a Pandora Literary Award and has been invited to present a keynote address at the 4th VideoBardo Festival/Conference in Buenos Aires in November on the theme of “Videopoetry; New Perspectives on an Interdisciplinary Practice.”

     

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  • Heather Haley 1:15 pm on May 26, 2012 Permalink | Reply
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    New deadline for 2012 Visible Verse Festival: August 1 

    The deadline for Visible Verse Festival 2012 has been changed to Aug. 1. The festival will take place Saturday, Oct. 13 at Pacific Cinémathèque in Vancouver.

    Please help spread the (visible) word!

    VISIBLE VERSE FESTIVAL @ Pacific Cinémathèque in Vancouver, Canada

    Call for Entries:

    • VVF seeks videopoems with a 12 minutes maximum duration.
    • 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.
    • Either official language of Canada is acceptable, though if the video is in French, an English-dubbed or-subtitled version is required. Videopoems may originate in any part of the world.
    • Please submit by sending the URL for your videopoem along with a brief bio, full name, and contact information to hshaley@emspace.com. There is no official application form nor entry fee.

    DEADLINE: Aug. 1, 2012

    For more information contact Artistic Director Heather Haley at: hshaley@emspace.com

     

  • Dave Bonta 7:41 pm on April 13, 2012 Permalink | Reply
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    Videopoetry submission deadlines 

    Just a reminder for filmmakers that deadlines are approaching for a couple of opportunities previously linked to here. Another deadline has been extended. So here are four dates to keep in mind:

    May 2 — 6th ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival

    June 1 — Cinépoetry submissions for 2012 issue of Poetry International

    August 31 (was July 31) — IV International Festival of Videopoetry for the Earth 2012 (VideoBardo)

    September 1 — 2012 Visible Verse Festival

    For news of other film festivals that may be open to videopoetry/filmpoetry/cinépoetry, I recommend joining the Visible Verse Festival group page on Facebook.

     

  • Dave Bonta 8:41 am on September 30, 2011 Permalink | Reply
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    Program announced for Visible Verse videopoetry festival 

    Heather Haley has posted the program for the Visible Verse videopoetry festival, which will be in Vancouver, BC on Friday, Nov. 4 and Saturday, Nov. 5 at the Pacific Cinematheque. A few of the filmmakers’ names were familiar to me from curating Moving Poems (Swoon Bildos, Alastair Cook, Kathy McTavish), but the majority were not, which is exciting: it suggests that my online anthology, extensive as it is becoming, is really only the tip of the iceberg. Not only do I miss a lot of good stuff, but many people never upload their films to a video-sharing site, especially those who are more focused on getting into festivals.

    This year’s festival will also include an artist talk/Q&A with Tom Konyves, focusing on his recent Videopoetry: A Manifesto, and a live reading by a vsisiting videopoet, Rich Ferguson.

    Incidentally, the Facebook group page for the Visible Verse Festival, source of this information, is a good place to find links to new work, since anyone can join and post to it.

     

  • Dave Bonta 2:36 pm on July 5, 2011 Permalink | Reply
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    Visible Verse Festival 2011 call for submissions 

    Submissions to the Visible Verse Festival in Vancouver are due by September 1. Don’t miss your chance to be part of North America’s premiere videopoetry festival.

    2011 VISIBLE VERSE FESTIVAL
    Call for Entries and Official Guidelines:

    • VVF 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. 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.

    DEADLINE: Sept. 1, 2011

    • 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 contact Heather Haley at: hshaley@emspace.com
     

  • Heather Haley 9:18 am on January 20, 2011 Permalink | Reply
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    2011 Visible Verse Festival Call for Entries and Official Guidelines 

    • 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 contact host and curator Heather Haley at hshaley[at]emspace[dot]com or visit the website.

     

    • Heather Haley 5:55 pm on January 21, 2011 Permalink | Reply

      Thanks for helping spread the word Dave.

      • Dave 7:14 pm on January 21, 2011 Permalink | Reply

        My pleasure. Who knows — I might even get off my butt and submit one of my own crappy videopoems this year. :)

    • Heather Haley 7:41 pm on January 21, 2011 Permalink | Reply

      Well, despite the scatological reference, or references, I look forward to viewing your videopoems. ;-)

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