~ Author-made videopoems ~
Who’d have thought by Melissa Diem
The latest film from Irish poet-filmmaker Melissa Diem. According to the description on Vimeo, it was filmed in Peru and Ireland. Sound production is by Colm Slattery.
Broken Horse by Sara Mithra
Sara Mithra is a Vermont-based poet with a particular interest in the use of old home movies and other archival footage for videopoetry. She’s also active on SoundCloud. About Broken Horse, she writes:
This poem film explores the relationship between the labor of the Western frontier and its emotional legacy. Choosing semi-professional archival footage allowed me to present a story of wreckage. Thanks to the Prelinger Archives for providing such a rich trove of creative commons films.
Omelet by Fiona Tinwei Lam
The poet, Fiona Tinwei Lam, also directed and produced this film, with animation by Toni Zhang and Claire Stewart. The text has appeared in Enter the Chrysanthemum (Caitlin Press, 2009) and Poet to Poet, edited by Julia Roorda and Elana Wolff (Guernica Editions, 2012).
Afraid of what I would write by James O’Leary
A videopoem from the Irish writer, theater director and filmmaker James O’Leary.
Meteor by Lena Phalen
A great idea, brilliant in its brevity and simplicity, I thought. “Debut filmpoem by Lena Phalen, filmed between Edinburgh and Dundee,” according to my program notes from the 2013 Filmpoem Festival in Dunbar, where this was screened.
Back to you by Karen Mary Berr
Filmmaker-poet Karen Mary Berr writes,
Back to you is a poem I wrote in 2011 and revisited in 2013, to express what I could feel in terms of longing.
Not a longing for any kind of after life, or any other state of being, but especially for a very embodied and carnal experience, that seems to have no limit in itself but is limited by death. I decided to express this through sensuality and sexuality for I consider both experiences devastatingly founding, timeless and unforgettable. This is the expression of a kind of reversed-longing, when all is gone, for our incarnation.Here’s the link to the poem :
karen-mary.tumblr.com/post/50007702364/back-to-you
Here’s the first version (2011):
karen-mary.tumblr.com/post/27274973556/back-to-you-song-version
He Talked in His Sleep by Al Rempel
A great use of Prelinger material — in this case, family movies from 1929 — by Canadian poet Al Rempel, working with his usual editing assistant Steph St Laurent.
GoldenBricks by Koniclab (Rosa Sánchez and Alain Baumann)
An interesting experimental videopoem by Koniclab: Rosa Sánchez (director) and Alain Baumann (sound) of the Barcelona-based Kònic thtr. Here’s the description on Vimeo:
Video Poem. Words are appearing on screen, as thin and fragile looking poles move and change to letter shapes. In contrast, we hear the sound of a synthetic and neutral voice, reading and extract of the manifesto from the Mortgage Victims Platform (Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca) who is a movement in Spain whose members have managed to stop evictions by physically standing in front of doors. Estimations are that since the beginning of the crisis in Spain, over 170.000 evictions have taken place in Spain. In the background, the comforting sound of a shop and its cash register.
Jesse James by GennaRose Nethercott
Performance poems illustrated with live-action sequences aren’t perhaps as common as they should be. This is a particularly well-made example of the genre. In the too-brief Vimeo description, the video is credited equally to Wyatt Andrews (who also plays Jesse James), GennaRose Nethercott (the poet) and Ian McPherson.
Rain Moments of Today by Andy Bonjour
Andy Bonjour is a professional filmmaker, but this has the feel of something utterly off-the-cuff, film and poem coming into existence at the same time.
Appraisal by Melissa Diem
A poetry film by Irish poet and filmmaker Melissa Diem, with sound production by Colm Slattery.
Screened at FILMPOEM 2013 as part of the main programme, Dunbar, Scotland.
Selected for the CologneOFF IX – 9th Cologne International Videoart Festival
Selected for the 2013 VISIBLE VERSE FESTIVALA poetry film that explores ideas of alienation and personal identity in relation to others and by testing the limits within the self. Filmed in Ireland in 2013.
The Horse Plough by Marcarthur Baralla
A professional filmmaker‘s first venture into videopoetry. Baralla tells me he lives in Brooklyn, and shot the footage for this film in Maine.
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