~ Videopoems ~

Videopoetry, filmpoetry, cinepoetry, poetry-film… the label doesn’t matter. What matters is that text and images enter into dialogue, creating a new, poetic whole.

Written in My Dream by William Carlos Williams

On 7 May, 2012 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments - Animation, Concrete and visual poetry
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This kinetic text poetry animation by Nikolaus Lesnik uses a reading by Allen Ginsberg.

The God of Sugar by Vicki Feaver

On 4 May, 2012 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments - Videopoems
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Alastair Cook‘s latest filmpoem features cinematography by James William Norton and a terrific score by Luca Nasciuti. Vicki Feaver is a highly regarded, regularly anthologized English poet with three poetry collections out.

Cioran by Peter Wullen

On 3 May, 2012 by Dave Bonta with 1 Comments - Videopoems
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Peter Wullen; voice: Bart Stouten; concept, camera, editing, music: Swoon. Of all the many videopoems Swoon has put together, this may well be my favorite so far.

A Border History by Forrest Gander

On 2 May, 2012 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments - Author-made videopoems
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Poem, music and film are all by Forrest Gander.

Subway Services by Philip Dacey

On 1 May, 2012 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments - Videopoems
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A neon animation by Jack Feldstein based on a poem by Philip Dacey.

The Last Days of the Suicide Kid by Charles Bukowski

On 30 April, 2012 by Dave Bonta with 3 Comments - Videopoems
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An award-winning film by Dutch filmmaker and artist RJ (Jetze Roel van Assen).

coração (heart) by Marcelo Sahea

On 27 April, 2012 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments - Author-made videopoems
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Brazilian poet, performer, and visual and sound artist Marcelo Sahea produced the text, did the reading and made the film with the help of some crowd-sourced footage:

During two months, some friends and interested people were invited to participate sending short clips of its naked bodies filmed by themselves with any types of cameras. Some of these images are part of the work that you will see.

when you land in New Orleans by Ben Pelhan

On 26 April, 2012 by Dave Bonta with 1 Comments - Author-made videopoems
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Ben Pelhan shot, wrote, edited, supplied the voice, etc. Pelhan is a Pittsburgh native currently living in New Orleans. “When he’s not playing poet he plays with whatever video equipment he can get his hands on,” according to a recent bio at smoking glue gun.

innocent beat by Martha McCollough

On 25 April, 2012 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments - Animation, Author-made videopoems, Concrete and visual poetry
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An interesting kinetic-text animation by Martha McCollough, a painter and animator from Boston, who notes in the description that it it is “Based on a page from my erasure project Grey Vacation. The wrongest thing ever said.”

poem by Syrian refugee Tarek

On 24 April, 2012 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments - Videopoems
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Lebanese filmmaker Eliane Raheb directs. From the Free Arab website:

Since the start of the revolutions, Friday has become a symbolic day for all Arab protestors, it is the day to take down the streets and ask for changing the regime. From his refuge in Beirut, Tarek who is unable to demonstrate against the regime in Lattakia, uses his pen to write a poem, in tribute to the protesters everywhere in Syria

Fireflies by Raymond Luczak

On 23 April, 2012 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments - Author-made videopoems
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Raymond Luczak signs a poem from his newly re-issued book This Way to the Acorns, which sounds great: a collection of nature poems based on memories of his childhood in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The music is by John Stutte.

Putain by Peter Wullen

On 20 April, 2012 by Dave Bonta with 1 Comments - Animation
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http://vimeo.com/40176696

(English version)

http://vimeo.com/39052134

(Dutch version)

Kris J. Yves Verdonck used “stopmotion, pixilation and edited images of Eadward Muybridge,” and notes that the “English version is slightly different from the Dutch one.”