Nov 9
I have been invited to participate in a roundtable discussion at the CYCLOP Video Poetry Festival on 21 November 2015 in Kiev (Ukraine) about the past, present and future of poetry films. The panel will also include Thomas Zandegiacomo (Germany), Piotr Bosacki (Poland), Artur Punte (Latvia) and others. The full festival programme is below.
I was delighted to be on the International Jury for the CYCLOP Video Poetry Festival 2015. The shortlist of 10 films, decided by the jurors, is below. The festival will take place in Kiev (Ukraine) on 21-22 November 2015.
CYCLOP International Videopoetry Contest | Shortlist [40:11]
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1. Svetlana Sobcenko «My Own Personal Mountain» [02:40], Ireland.
Director, poet: Svetlana Sobcenko.
2. Vera Schmidt / OSTPOL e.V. «Viva Violence» [03:05], Germany.
Director: Katharina Merten, Johanna Maxl. Poet: Johanna Maxl, Katharina Merten.
3. Bagadefente «Poem with Flying Termites & Cheesy Ending» [01:30], Brazil.
Director, poet: Bagadefente.
4. Marc Neys (aka Swoon) «If I kill Time I take» [03:52], Belgium.
Director: Swoon. Poet: Mark Insingel.
5. Tommy Becker «song for AWE & DREAD» [06:54], USA.
Director, poet: Tommy Becker.
6. C.O. Moed and Adrian Garcia Gomez «Fucking Him» [01:45], USA.
Director: C.O. Moed and Adrian Garcia Gomez. Poet: C.O. Moed.
7. Bruno Teixidor «Platillo Puro» [02:32], Spain.
Director: Bruno Teixidor. Poet: Tomás Segovia.
8. Susanne Wiegner «the light – the shade» [07:07], Germany.
Director: Susanne Wiegner. Poet: Robert Lax.
9. Celia Parra Díaz «WordmoviE» [02:46], Spain.
Director: DSK (Belén Montero & Juan Lesta). Poet: Celia Parra.
10. Dana Goldberg «NO SHADOW» [08:00], Israel.
Director: Dana Goldberg, Dr. Efrat Mishori. Poet: Dr. Efrat Mishori.
Enjoy a curated selection of short film artworks, chosen for their alignment with poetic structures and experiences, and with the visual, verbal and aural languages of poetry in various forms introduced by Zata Banks, Director of PoetryFilm, plus a new short film by Roxana Vilk. Award-winning British-Iranian filmmaker Vilk has over the past few years made films about poets from both Britain and the Middle East, not least her acclaimed Poets of Protest series made for Al-Jazeera in 2012. PoetryFilm is the influential research art project founded by Zata Banks in 2002, to explore and exhibit experimental text / image / sound material.
PoetryFilm Parallax
The ICA Cinema, London
Sunday 16 August 2015
Submissions are now being considered for PoetryFilm Parallax.
I enjoyed judging the Apples & Snakes poetry film competition entries last week. Congratulations to the winners:
Best Film: Ars Moriendi by Chris Stewart
Best First Film: There Is Something of You in Me by Lauren Vevers
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