Poetry | PoetryFilm

May 22

PoetryFilm at Laugharne Castle, June 6-8, 2014

PoetryFilm has partnered with the Laugharne Castle Poetry and Film Festival.

Taking place within the ‘timeless, beautiful’ setting of Laugharne Castle in southern Carmarthenshire, the Laugharne Castle Poetry and Film Festival will unfold over the long weekend of Friday 6 June – Sunday 8 June 2014.

Marking the centenary year of Dylan Thomas’s birth, our exciting and innovative festival programme will include:

A special outdoor screening of the 1972 film Under Milk Wood, starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor – presented by Chapter Arts Centre within the atmospheric castle walls
An introduction and Q&A session with the film’s director Andrew Sinclair
NEW programmes of the best selected contemporary poetry and film from around the UK
A stop-motion animation workshop for young people
Printmaking workshop
Poetry readings and talks

May 1

PoetryFilm at “O, Miami” Poetry Festival in Miami, April 21-29, 2014

PoetryFilm was invited to the “O, Miami” Poetry Festival in April to present a curated PoetryFilm programme.

Malgorzata Kitowski also gave a reading of the poems “Knitting”, “Graffitti” and “Theremin” from her book “Doppelgangers”.

O, Miami expands and advances literary culture in Greater Miami, FL. The mission of the festival is for every single person in Miami-Dade County to encounter a poem during the month of April.

Many thanks to the team at O, Miami for the invitation.

Mar 27

The British Postal Museum & Archive: An Evening of Music, Art and Film, March 27, 2014

I was delighted to be invited to perform at an event for the British Postal Museum & Archive on March 27, 2014.

The event was a fundraising/networking event to support the plan to open a new Museum & Archive. The evening featured screenings of the Night Mail film, highlights from the collection of GPO posters and PR posters, and live music.

The Aldwych Sinfonia (comprising three violinists and a cellist) and I gave a live performance of Night Mail during the evening.

Many thanks to Scott Anthony and Sarah Jenkins for the invitation, and to Olivia and the musicians at Aldwych Sinfonia.

Feb 22

“Cut-Up Experiment VIII” by Malgorzata Kitowski selected for the Stanford Code Poetry Festival

I was delighted to hear that my poem and corresponding PoetryFilm “Cut-Up Experiment VIII” was a finalist in the Stanford Code Poetry Festival.

An Oulipo poem employing anagrams and numerology is turned into a triptych cut-up. Each segment contains the same 166 words jigsawed in a different order. The film explores perceptions of meaning through seeing and hearing: in the first section, the words are both seen and heard; in the second section the words are heard and not seen; in the third section, the words are seen and not heard.

The event was sponsored by the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages at Stanford University.

Film still from “Cut-Up Experiment VIII”

Sep 22

Programme: PoetryFilm Equinox (Autumn 2013)

Below are the details of the films and performances from PoetryFilm Equinox (Autumn 2013) which took place at The ICA Cinema, London, on 21 September 2013.

Oct 18

Programme: PoetryFilm event about “Heroes and Heroines” at Curzon Renoir, October 2009

Below are the details of the PoetryFilm: Heroes and Heroines event at Curzon Renoir Cinema in October 2009.

To tie in with National Poetry Day 2009 (08/09/09), the theme was Heroes and Heroines.

Heroes and Heroines celebrated included: Hitchcock, Rachmaninov, Bunuel, Dali, Madame de Pompadou, doppelgangers, Freegans, Gaston Bachelard and Rilke.

The full programme description from the event is below.

Jun 18

Programme: PoetryFilm event about “Strangers and Strangeness” at Curzon Renoir, July 2009

Below are the details of the PoetryFilm: Strangers and Strangeness event at Curzon Renoir Cinema in July 2009.

The programme included an important film by Beat poet Michael McClure, a BAFTA award-winning film about levitation, and a photographic art film by Marco Sanges. There was a Q&A after the screening.

The full programme description from the event is below.