PoetryFilm Archive: poster from “La Sonnambula” by Marco Sanges and Alberto Bona – screened at PoetryFilm at Curzon Renoir in October 2009
Oct 20
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 Archive: photograph from PoetryFilm at Cardiff Academi: “Shock of the New”, October 2008
Here is a photograph taken at the PoetryFilm event in Cardiff in 2008. The event was part of a programme called “Shock of the New”. Thanks very much to Cardiff Academi for the photograph and for the invitation.
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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