What is poetry video

The trailer was directed and created by Ylia Trotter. This videopoem is a terrific example of how poets can collaborate with filmmakers and make creative videos of their work. I will always prefer holding the creamy pages of poetry in my hands over a cold computer screen.

But I cannot deny that my mind has adapted to the visual immediacy of film and video and that the combination of music, film, and poetry is a captivating way of sharing poetry. I see it as a union, a compatible relationship where video brings poetry to a broader readership and spreads the beauty of the written word.

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Manjeet Mann - What is special about writing poetry for children? The numbers in parentheses are numbers of videos in that category as of Oscar Night Historically, the term film poem came first.

Poetry-film was a term coined in the 60s to specify a new, hybrid genre which did include text, though some people still called everything film poetry anyway. George Aguilar coined the term Cin e poetry , which stands for cinematic electronic poetry , in the early 90s. Videopoetry , a term originally coined by Tom Konyves in , seems ascendant on the web. Well, whatever you call them, filmmakers have been making them for quite a while.

Poetry film festivals now regularly occur in every continent except Antarctica, featuring poems from many languages. Meanwhile, I keep finding newcomers whose very lack of familiarity with this tradition brings a fresh perspective. Like the eye itself, the videopoem has evolved independently many times.

Weldon C. Dave is the founder of Moving Poems, and posts videos for his own poems along with lots of other stuff at Via Negativa. Here's a bio.

Nice attempt at trying to wrangle together and make sense of the intriguing mixture of poetry, image and sound. This might help you get a bit more detail about that period in time where poetry was leaving the page and the stage and into the Internet and big screen. I do have a substantial collection of poetry films, videopoems and cinepoems stemming from my time as festival director and i hope some day to get it online to share with everyone. Thanks for stopping by! It would be awesome if you can get some of your collection online.