Precious Are The Feet of Those… by Kwame Dawes

On 28 March, 2012 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments - Kinestasis
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Another in the Voices from Haiti series produced by the Pulitzer Center, exploring life after the earthquake and focusing on the lives of those affected by HIV/AIDS, with poetry by Kwame Dawes, images by photographer Andre Lambertson, editing by Robin Bell and music by Kevin Simmonds. See YouTube for the text.

just midnight by Robert Lax

On 27 March, 2012 by Dave Bonta with 4 Comments - Animation
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An interesting solution to the problem of how to envideo a poem whose typographical arrangement was very important to its author. Susanne Wiegner notes at Vimeo,

“just midnight” is a poem by Robert Lax that describes a temporal and spacial situation by very minimal means. For Robert Lax the composition of the letters and words on the paper was very important. And so he created one of his vertical typefaces, that was transferred for the film. The letters become spaces and actors, crossed and circled by the camera. Step by step a three-dimensional formation of words is generated and disappears again in a sheet of paper.

The film has been very widely screened — click through for a full list of festivals and awards.

Over Breakfast by R.W. Perkins

On 26 March, 2012 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments - Author-made videopoems
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http://vimeo.com/38961911

R. W. Perkins‘ latest videopoem. He says on his blog:

Artistically it is an attempt to stretch myself in the realm of videopoetry, by trying something that has proved to be difficult to do in this art form, “being literal”.

Visually I wanted something that looked a little more feminine, and gentle to the touch. Where as I spent much less time editing this piece, I spent more time on cinematography and atmosphere, I hope it comes through in this videopoem.

He also posted some detailed notes about his process that are well worth checking out.

Somewhere by Elise Stewart

On 23 March, 2012 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments - Author-made videopoems
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Poem, vocals, music and video are all by the British neo-romantic poet Elise Stewart.

Advertising Lullaby by George Carlin

On 22 March, 2012 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments - Animation
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Found text has played a central role in the development of videopoetry, so this montage of advertising tropes by the late comedian George Carlin becomes a full-fledged poem merely by adaptation to the kinetic-text medium. An inspired choice and execution by Jenny Lien.

somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond by e.e. cummings

On 21 March, 2012 by Dave Bonta with 1 Comments - Videopoems
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“People and places from a recent trip to San Diego, CA,” says documentary photojournalist and filmmaker Kristyn Ulanday in the description at Vimeo. I think she rather understates the awesomeness of this videopoem. (For the text of the poem, see Poets.org.)

Inverting the Deer by Gary Barwin

On 20 March, 2012 by Dave Bonta with 1 Comments - Author-made videopoems, Kinestasis
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I love this poem, and was happy to see Gary Barwin (who describes himself as writer, composer, multimedia artist, performer and educator) doing something interesting with the much-abused video slideshow (kinestatic) form on YouTube. The poem appears in The Porcupinity of the Stars (Coach House, 2010).

“Subcutaneous”: Three poems by Dan Godston

On 19 March, 2012 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments - Videopoems
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http://vimeo.com/38687396

Three poems in one video by the indefatigible Swoon. The poems are: “Spread Out,” “Trash” and “A Sonnet for Edgar Allan Poe.” For the texts, see Swoon’s blog post about the video.

Becoming Judas: five poems by Nicelle Davis

On 16 March, 2012 by Dave Bonta with 1 Comments - Animation, Book trailers
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These poems are from Becoming Judas by Nicelle Davis, forthcoming from Red Hen Press. The wonderfully whimsical drawings by Cheryl Gross are animated in a fairly basic style which the description at YouTube dubs “motion graphics.”

Epithalamium by Timothy David Orme

On 15 March, 2012 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments - Author-made videopoems
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An interesting experimental piece by filmmaker and poet Timothy David Orme, who describes it at Vimeo as follows:

Epithalamium is a hybrid work of “poetry” and altered, erased, and intentionally damaged 16mm film–an odd marriage poem to an ex-wife, the first part being a poem for the speaker’s marriage day, the second part being a poem to the divorced wife’s future marriage, a sort of ‘future memory.’

Epithalamium is a silent project.

For more examples of Orme’s filmmaking, see his online portfolio.

The Itch by Mark Gwynne Jones

On 14 March, 2012 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments - Videopoems
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http://vimeo.com/37387784

According to the description on Vimeo, these are

Words and pictures from the English Peak District, courtesy of Mark Gwynne Jones and Andy Lawrence… 2012

This film was made in one day, using the Canon 220 sx powershot HS, a cheap compact camera, and iMovie..

Lawrence and Jones are part of a band/multimedia partnership called Psychicbread which has produced a whole series of filmpoems with texts by Jones. According to the Horizon Review,

Four times fringe-award winners, Mark Gwynne Jones and the Psychicbread use poetry, music and humour as their messenger. From the girl who spent too long on a sunbed to the joys of driving a Sherman Tank at rush hour. . . the result is contagious, gritty and sometimes startlingly sensitive.

Daughter and two other poems by Emily Hinshelwood

On 13 March, 2012 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments - Animation, Author-made videopoems, Performance Poetry
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http://vimeo.com/38151568

“This is an animation of my poem Daughter which I wrote after visiting the Old Point pub near Angle in Pembrokeshire,” writes Welsh poet and playwright Emily Hinshelwood in the description at Vimeo.

As a bonus, here’s Hinshelwood reading two poems for poetryvlog.com, “Lady Cave Anticline” and “And whan all else fails.” The audio quality isn’t great, but her readings make up for it. As a bit of a geology geek, I especially like the first.