A film by Jane Glennie in collaboration with poet/performer James E. Kenward. Here’s the description from Kenward’s website:

Award-winning Faber and Faber poetry-film director Jane Glennie came together with poet James E. Kenward on ‘Dark’, made with Jane’s unique photo-collage style. The soundtrack features a fresh piano-arrangement of Stravinsky’s ‘The Rite of Spring’ dueted with the spoken poem ‘Dark’. Jane took a year to hone her response, in the medium of light, to a poem about the dark. ‘Dark’ has gone on to play in festivals all over the world.

There is something magical in the coming together of all the different art-forms in this production.

In some ways the film provides a momentary solution to an age old puzzle that is so much a part of our lives. How to be with the dark itself? Must we always reach for the light?

Please see the interview I conducted with Kenward, where we delve into his process of musical composition for poetry films.