outside my black hole by Steven McCabe
This film offers more proof that Steven McCabe is one of the most accomplished videopoets out there. Here’s the description on Youtube: outside my black hole (2011) is a visual poetry film juxtaposing...
View ArticleWalking in Plastic by Bandile Gumbi
Another unique video collaboration from South African artist, poet and filmmaker Kai Lossgott, who sets it up for us as follows: Slums are rapidly becoming the defining landscape of the twenty-first...
View ArticleWhen I Move by Khary Jackson
I’ve posted a lot of dance + poetry videos and a lot of spoken word videos, but I believe this is the first in which the poet dances as he recites his poem. This was produced by the St. Paul,...
View ArticleNijinsky – Echopraxia by Kate Ruse
The “dance” category here at Moving Poems, though small, includes some of the most interesting and watchable poetry videos on the site, and this is a very worthy addition to their number. The filming,...
View ArticleKata by Lavinia Greenlaw
Another in the Winning Words series of poetry videos filmed by Andy Hutch. “Here professional parkour athlete Jolade Olusanya reads Lavinia Greenlaw’s ‘Kata’ in Stockwell.” I don’t have a category for...
View ArticleThe Little Mute Boy by Federico Garcia Lorca
This is Ink Spilled in Cursive from Company E, “a contemporary repertory dance company and film-making group deeply committed to the finest repertory and artistry, with a focus on the power of art to...
View ArticleIf I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso by Gertrude Stein
This is Shutters Shut, choreographed by the legendary duo Paul Lightfoot and Sol León, A.K.A. Lightfoot León, and premiered by the Nederlands Dans Theater II in 2003. Paul Lightfoot told Ballet...
View ArticleShadows by Langston Hughes
I suppose this is technically a music video rather than a videopoem, but it strikes me as much closer to the latter genre to the former — save for the fact that the poem takes the form of a very...
View ArticleIluzjonista / Illusionist by Slawomir Elsner
A poem by the Polish artist Slawomir Elsner turned into a film by choreographer, dancer and filmmaker Jagoda Bobrowska, who notes that it was a Film made for a competition “Nakrec wiersz” (shoot a...
View ArticleIn my kitchen in New York by Allen Ginsberg
Last week’s Sunday bonus post went over well, so here’s another, also a bit spiritual, for all you church-of-the-brunch types. In this one, the late Allen Ginsberg does Tai Chi in his kitchen over an...
View ArticleThe Applicant by Sylvia Plath
This is Confessions of a Lacking Pursuit, Directed, choreographed & edited by Maggie Bailey. Filmed by Paul Nguyen. Performed by Heather Bybee. Sylvia Plath’s recitation of her poem “The...
View Articleامر گيت / A Song Everlasting by Attiya Dawood
All the flowers in my country have been picked And gunpowder planted instead. Fragrance breathes its last In a torture camp. The very lane where hand in hand with you I have danced to the music of...
View ArticleAll American by David Hernandez
If the films released so far on their website are any indication, Motionpoems‘ 2015 season is their most stylistically diverse collection of poetry films to date. This film, released just before...
View ArticleRolling Frames by Ella Jane Chappell
This well-filmed dance interpretation of a poem by Ella Jane Chappell is one of ten shortlisted films for the Southbank Centre’s inaugural Shot Through the Heart Poetry Film competition. Katie Garrett...
View ArticleElephant by Sina Seiler
Sina Seiler of sinasan Film und Medienkunst (sinasan Film & Mediaart) is both filmmaker and author here. According to her description on Vimeo, The Poetry Film is based on the poem “Elephant” by...
View ArticleWe Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks
I can’t believe I’d never run across this terrific poetry-dance film before today, when a Google video search for Gwendolyn Brooks’ most famous poem turned it up. The YouTube description reads:...
View ArticlePoem No. 6 by Jessie Kleemann
Greenland poet Jessie Kleemann‘s text is voiced by Claire Wilkinson in a film by Diego Barraza (Chinoix) called Dolor ártico / Arctic Ache. ‘Arctic Ache’ is a video derived from ‘Poem Nº 6’, which is...
View Articleشاعروں سے ڈرو / Be afraid of poets by Zeeshan Sahil
Be afraid of poets – they have a hand-grenade made of dreams… The late Pakistani poet Zeeshan Sahil “has often been praised for writing in a simple yet profound manner”—a simplicity admirably captured...
View ArticleDeath Meditation by A.M. Thompson
This is the second of two films by Marie Craven using Poetry Storehouse poems by A.M. Thompson. (I also liked the first, Unavoidable Alchemy, but felt that it ended too abruptly.) Here she has used...
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