~ January 2018 ~

Lowing by Jessica Rigney

On 4 January, 2018 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments - Author-made videopoems
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A poetry film directed and with music by the author, Jessica Rigney. The text was published in Salomé, a new “online literary magazine for emerging female writers,” as part of their Body issue (July 2017). It’s interesting seeing such perennial literary themes — sex, fertility, female body as landscape — treated from an entirely female point-of-view. When I watched this for the first time, it seemed at once very familiar and entirely new.

Sea Grapes by Derek Walcott

On 3 January, 2018 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments - Videopoems
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Director Keenan Wetzel calls this “A modern representation of the ancient struggle between obsession and responsibility based on the poem ‘Sea Grapes’ by Nobel prize winner Derek Walcott.” The actor is Mark Colson, and Jake Bianco was the cinematographer.

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A Sonnet after Chopin’s Requiem by Monique-Adelle Callahan

On 2 January, 2018 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments - Videopoems
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https://vimeo.com/189987473

A poem by Monique-Adelle Callahan turned into a film by the production company Timber (Jonah Hall and Kevin Lau), who note on Vimeo:

Every year the Motion Poems organization puts on a film festival where they pair a poet along with a filmmaker. The filmmaker is given nothing more than the words on the page to go off of for inspiration. The two never really meet and the result is a new visual interpretation of the poem that new and not influenced by the poet. Timber was lucky to be invited to the 2016 round and 7th season of the Motion Poems series. This year the theme was black poets and the poem we interrupted was Sonnet After Chopin’s Requiem by Monique-Adelle.

Enjoy the visual journey that we were taken on by the beautiful words of the author. Timber explored the ideas of visualizing sound and the experience of Synesthesia. We wanted to experiment with textures and feels and create worlds that evoked movement and ambiguity.

Click through for the credits, and visit Motionpoems to read the text.

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