“Abstract Experiment in Kodachrome” by Slavko Vorkapich
Slavko Vorkapich was a Serbian-American film director and editor, former Chair of USC Film School, painter, and a prominent figure of modern cinematography and film art.
Oct 14
The Psychology of Colour Pencil Set
Available from The School of Life (click below to go to the site).
John Dunbar: Remember when Today was Tomorrow
4 October – 1 November 2014
John Dunbar (born Mexico City, 1943) is a British artist best known as co-founder of Indica, the avant-garde London gallery of the mid-1960s, and for his many friendships and connections within the art and music counter-culture. He has also consistently maintained an eclectic practice encompassing drawing and collage (particularly in notebook context); sculpture and assemblage; photography and film. This solo exhibition features Dunbar’s legendary notebooks of the past 50 years, displayed for the first time, alongside works and films produced over that same period.
The phrase Remember when Today was Tomorrow has resonated with Dunbar since he first wrote it on the wall of his apartment in 1967, becoming the starting point for a psychedelic mural which accumulated additions from visitors, including Paul McCartney and John Lennon, and acting as a kind of mantra: “We were the first post-war generation, and the biggest changes happened then. It was a very different time. Everything was on the move – it made you want to do new things, whether it was in art, film, music.” (John Dunbar quoted in Tate Magazine 2004).*
Oct 6
PoetryFilm at the Ó Bhéal Winter Warmer Festival in Cork, Ireland, 21-22 November 2014
PoetryFilm has partnered with the Ó Bhéal Winter Warmer Festival in Cork which will take place on 21-22 November in Ireland at the Sample Studios Amphitheatre. Copy from the festival website is pasted below.
“We’re pleased to announce Ó Bhéal’s second Winter Warmer festival weekend. Over twenty excellent poets will read and perform in the amphitheatre at Sample Studios, some of whom will be accompanied by musicians. Snatch Comedy Improv will be performing a set of poetry-focussed comedy games, Sawa-Le will be performing poetry-theatre, a selection of poetry-films from around the world will be presented by Malgorzata Kitowski (from PoetryFilm), and these will be followed with a judges selection from the 2014 Ó Bhéal poetry-film competition. There will also be a closed-mic for ten local poets.”
Free Admission to all events.
The full festival programme is below.
PoetryFilm at the Swindon Festival of Poetry (documentation)
PoetryFilm programmes available in a choice of colours.
Zata Kitowski introducing the event. Don Share, poet and chief editor of Poetry magazine in Chicago, is in the front row.
Guests enjoying the drinks reception after the event. Poet Cliff Yates is just visible under the corner pole of the staircase.
The entrance to the PoetryFilm venue at Swindon New College. Matt Holland (owner of Lower Shaw Farm) and Hilda Sheehan (Festival Organiser) stand under the Theatre entrance (both wearing black).
Programme: PoetryFilm at the Swindon Festival of Poetry
Below are programme details for the PoetryFilm screening at the Swindon Festival of Poetry, 6pm on Friday 3 October 2014.
Oct 2
A Poem for National Poetry Day: “Autotomy” by Wisława Szymborska
Autotomia / Autotomy is taken from Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts: Seventy Poems. Below are both the Polish and English versions of the poem.
Happy National Poetry Day!
Poemdrums (Liliane Lijn 2009-2011) are related to Lijn’s early work with text, Poem Machines (1962). Like the Poem Machines, they spin, disengaging words from the composed text.
Oct 1
Zata Kitowski awarded an Artist Residency in Iceland in 2015
I am delighted to have been awarded an Artist Residency in Iceland in 2015. I am looking forward to spending 5 weeks in Iceland producing new creative work in January and February 2015. My work will explore art, science and nature within the context of the Northern Lights, sulphuric volcanoes, boiling mud, and Europe’s most powerful waterfall.
Ongoing documentation of my residency is available to view under the “Iceland” tab (found on the bar along the top of this website, on the top right).
Photos from PoetryFilm Equinox (September 2014)
Above: guest Dominic Stinton, Sign Language Interpreter Rebecca, Filmmaker Louise Stern, and guest.
Above: Filmmaker Joseph Giffard Tutt and guest. Click below for more photographs.
PoetryFilm at Swindon Festival of Poetry, Friday 3 October, 2014
PoetryFilm will be at the Swindon Festival of Poetry on Friday 3 October at 6pm.
The venue for the PoetryFilm event is Swindon New College, New College Dr, SN3 1AH.
The festival website is: http://swindonfestivalofpoetry.co.uk/2014-programme/
Many thanks to Hilda Sheehan for the invitation.
Sep 29
The Poetry Challenge recitational fundraiser, 5 October 2014
Come and enjoy poetry, tea and cake on Sunday 5 October between 2pm-5pm at the October Gallery in Bloomsbury. I will be reciting a poem alongside Aidan Andrew Dun and other poets at this annual fundraising event set up by Nicholas Albery (editor of the Poem for the Day anthology). The event is all about learning a poem by heart and reciting it (not merely reading it out).
Many thanks to Josefine Speyer for inviting me to recite a poem.
Menu Screen for PoetryFilm Equinox: Translation, Transcreation, Punctuation
The event took place on 26 September 2014.
Sep 28
R.I.P. Dannie Abse, 1923-2014
Below is a clip of Dannie Abse reading from Speak, Old Parrot at the T.S. Eliot Prize Award Reading at the Royal Festival Hall in January 2014. Dannie Abse was on top form that evening.
Sep 24
Programme: PoetryFilm Equinox: Translation, Transcreation, Punctuation, September 2014
Below are full programme details for PoetryFilm Equinox: Translation, Transcreation, Punctuation which took place in September 2014.
There was a live BSL interpreter at this event.
PoetryFilm Archive: Big Moth by Simon McLennan
Experimental film and sound collage with a spoken poem about embodying a moth. Original Super8 footage with found sound and spoken text.
PoetryFilm Archive: How Much Does the Shadow of an Orange Weigh? by Wesley Rickert
Typewriter text manuscript of the eponymous poetry film.
PoetryFilm Archive: Standard of Truth by Daniel Dugas
“Standard of Truth is a video about archives and innocence. Children do not have any archives; they are born free. They do not have to worry about all those boxes of papers stating this or that truth, they do not have to pay storage fees, or check the levels of relative humidity in the vaults. The past has not yet arrived. They have nothing else than life ahead of them. The meaning that flows in their veins is not saturated with antibodies; they are made of oxygen. Maybe that is why they have big smiles.” – Daniel Dugas
PoetryFilm Archive: “Floaters in the Eye” by Antoinette Zwirchmayr
The text of Paul Celan’s poem Schliere (Floaters) is printed with a Braille writing machine onto black leader, translating it into Braille writing. The 16mm film is readable to a blind person through physical touch, though projected onto the screen the writing transforms into an unidentifiable code of bright spots.
A blind person can read the 16mm film through physical touch, though can’t see the film projected; a sighted person can see the film projected, though can’t read the visual Braille poem – a paradox particularly appropriate in relation to Celan’s key themes of language and trauma.
PoetryFilm Archive: Dart by Marc Tiley and Alice Oswald
The poetry film Dart by Marc Tiley is an abridged version of Alice Oswald’s poem.
PoetryFilm Archive: Ruckenfigurphone by Sellotape Cinema
Sellotape Cinema are artists Stephen Snell and Steven Chamberlain. Sellotape Cinema creates film worked directly onto sticky tape and played through a specially adapted projector.
PoetryFilm Archive: Holes in the Mountain by Kai Carlson-Wee
Holes in the Mountain is a poetry film by Kai Carlson-Wee, shot during a freight hopping trip from Oakland to Portland with his brother in the summer of 2014. Through video, photography, poetry, and music, the film creates an associative narrative structure that seeks to explore rural American landscapes, spiritual poverty, and the experience of traveling by freight. The poem has been published in The Missouri Review.
PoetryFilm Archive: My Shadow: An Illusion of Me by Karl F. Stewart
The film plays with the tension between images of shadows, a text describing shadows, and an audio independent from the images and text.
PoetryFilm Archive: The Word City by Eduardo Romaguera
‘I am particularly interested in poetry in the broadest sense, that’s the key to my artistic work. Poetry for me is also a learning process and a search in the understanding of the other. Other objects, other persons.’
For a number of years Eduardo Romaguera considered giving his work another name: ‘Explorador would have been a good one. I believe “explorador” better reflects the work I’m doing.’
PoetryFilm Archive: Dreams of Evolution by Nick Bolton/Kate Toon
“I can think of nothing sadder than a goldfish in a bowl. Swimming in tight circles, such a lonely fishy soul…”
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