Postcard for the London PoetryFilm Night II event in February 2005
The event took place at the Genesis Cinema in London.
The design is a treated film still from Zata Kitowski’s poetry film “Full Stop” filmed in North Greenwich.
Posts from the ‘PoetryFilm’ Category
Jun 19
Programme: PoetryFilm at Laugharne Castle, June 2014
Below are the details of the full PoetryFilm programme presented at Laugharne Castle on June 7 and June 8:
PoetryFilm: Sounds of Love at the Southbank Centre, July 19, 2014
An evening of sound-informed PoetryFilms and live performances celebrating sounds of love and love of sounds.
Conceived, curated and introduced by Malgorzata Kitowski.
Spirit Level at Royal Festival Hall.
July 19th, 7:45pm.
To book tickets, please click here.
The full programme is below.
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
PoetryFilm Submissions
Work welcome: films based on poems, poems based on/turned into films, art films, text films, sound films, poet-filmmaker collaborations and other experimental text/image/sound screening or performance material.
All themes and topics are welcome. There are also a number of specific themed events coming up so work exploring these topics is particularly welcome:
* Sound-informed material exploring the role of sound
* Material exploring balance, solstice, cycles, symmetry
* Material exploring mathematics/science
Please download the PoetryFilm Submission Form here.
Please send to First Floor, 85 Harwood Road, London SW6 4QL.
There is no formal deadline; material will be considered for all forthcoming events.
For further details, please email Malgorzata at info-at-poetryfilm.org
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.
New PoetryFilm website…
The http://www.poetryfilm.org website is in the process of being updated. Please look out for new posts and retrospective post-population coming soon…
PoetryFilm at Supernormal Festival, August 8-10
PoetryFilm has been invited to curate a programme for the Supernormal Festival in Oxford.
Supernormal is a festival like no other, providing a powerful antidote to the current malaise of festivals-as-big-business. Blurring the boundaries between art and music, performer and audience, it champions the iconoclastic and the experimental, allowing risks to be taken and leaps of imagination to occur. Somewhere in spirit between the original Glastonbury Fayre and an eccentric village fete, Supernormal is the alternative’s alternative.
“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”
Zata Kitowski to judge the Southbank Centre’s “Shot Through The Heart” Poetry Film Competition
I’m delighted to be a Judge for the Southbank Centre’s Poetry Film competition.
Friday 14 February – Friday 30 May
Calling all poets and filmmakers! Love is in the air at Southbank Centre and we want you to create poetry films that explore the joy of first love, the pain of lost love, the confusion of displaced love, the purity of platonic love, or any other kind of love.
There are two categories to enter
Poetry films on the theme of love made for adults
Poetry films on the theme of love made for children (under 12)
Throughout the summer, Southbank Centre’s celebrates the Festival of Love. Our biennial Poetry International festival (17 – 24 July 2014) explores many different themes including the various ways in which love can impact on writers’ lives. Poetry film will be a major part of this year’s Poetry International.
PoetryFilm Salon at Warwick University, January 9th 2014
I was delighted to be invited to present a PoetryFilm salon to students on the Creative Writing course at Warwick University.
LitBiz is Warwick Writing Programme’s weekly literary salon, organized by Masters’ students and featuring visiting novelists, poets, filmmakers, publishers, editors, agents and artists in conversation with Warwick writers.
Talks are open to anyone and free, and take place in the Writers’ Room in Milburn House on Thursdays from 1.30pm to 2.30pm.
Many thanks to David Morley for the invitation.
PoetryFilm Equinox at the ICA, September 22, 2013
A special PoetryFilm event celebrating the Autumn Equinox with a bespoke programme of experimental short films exploring Circles, Cycles, Sequences, Planets and Patterns.
This event was “twinned” with the PoetryFilm Equinox event at the Charlotte Street Hotel in March 2013 which marked the Spring Equinox.
PoetryFilm Salon, Royal College of Art, 21 March 2013
Below is a poster designed by Peter Blegvad for the PoetryFilm Salon which took place at the RCA in March 2013. Many thanks to Peter Blegvad and to the RCA for the invitation.
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.
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.
Programme: PoetryFilm Party at Curzon Soho, 22 April, 2009
PoetryFilm Party took place in the Curzon Soho Bar on April 22, 2009 at 7:45pm and it was a free event.
The event featured a selection of PoetryFilms on the theme of Dream, and also live performances including Project Adorno and Play 2.
The full programme is below.
PoetryFilm at Tate: Freedom and Dream, October 5, 2007
Postcard from the PoetryFilm at Tate event in October 2007.
The theme was Freedom and Dream and the event was part of National Poetry Week 2007.
Programme: PoetryFilm at Saatchi & Saatchi, March 2007
Below are details of the programme from the PoetryFilm event which took place in March 2007 at Saatchi & Saatchi on Charlotte Street in London.
Oct 6
Programme: PoetryFilm event about Identity at the Artworkers’ Guild in October 6, 2006
Below are details of the PoetryFilm event about Identity at the Artworkers’ Guild in Bloomsbury on October 6, 2006.
A rare experimental screening / performance:
4 artists explore Identity: Gad Hollander, Michael Horovitz, Mahmood Jamal, Malgorzata Kitowski
The event was part of National Poetry Week 2006.
The full programme description from the event is below.
Programme: PoetryFilm: Altered States of Consciousness, Tate Britain, April 2006
Below is the full programme for PoetryFilm: Altered States of Consciousness which took place at Tate Britain in April 2006.
“Malgorzata Kitowski introduces a selection of experimental shorts: ‘filmifications’ of poems; films about altered states of mind; films jigsawed from cut-ups, beat writing, trips and dreamscapes.”
Archive: PoetryFilm at Greenwich Picturehouse, Sunday 15 January, 2006
(Press release for the event on 15 January 2006)
Short avant-garde poetry films
Featuring a dozen experimental films based on poems, text-based films and films examining language, the first PoetryFilm at Picturehouse showcases today’s most imaginative and eclectic works in the cult genre of poetry film.
Drinks and discussion in the bar afterwards, followed by live poetry reading. Curated by Malgorzata Kitowski
Date: Sunday 15 January 2006 / Time: 7.45pm / Tickets: £7; £5
Venue: Greenwich Picturehouse
180 Greenwich High Road
London SE10* 100 yards from Greenwich mainline and DLR stations.
180 Greenwich High Road
London SE10* 100 yards from Greenwich mainline and DLR stations.
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