~ April 2010 ~

The River of Bees by W. S. Merwin

http://www.vimeo.com/10534508

An exceptionally fine videopoem by Nicole Prowell.

Shot at Pleasure Beach in Bridgeport/Stratford, CT March 2010. Music by Harold Budd and Brian Eno.

Filmed on the Sony EX3, 1080 24p.

A Dialogue Between the Soul and the Body by Andrew Marvell

A delightful experiment in machine translation by Michelle Phillips.

A conversation between two computers. One read a verse aloud and the other transcribed it through voice recognition and vice versa. The process was repeated until Andrew Marvell’s poem “A Dialogue between the Soul and Body” had been completely re-written.

I am thinking we could dub the result a meta-metaphysical poem.

Stone by Charles Simic

There’s a video of Simic reading this poem, but it’s not as interesting as the two videos included here. About the musical performance above I could gather nothing, though it appears from the one comment that it may have been uploaded by one of the performers. I love the interpretation of the poem as a Sufi teaching, though I’m not sure how Simic would feel about it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JG7F9dDnAA

Brian Watterson is the filmmaker here.

The Hanging Stanes by Sam Meekings

http://www.vimeo.com/10287177

Ginnetta Correli directs. The poem is #65 in This Collection’s Top 100 poems about Edinburgh, and is read by Alastair Cook.