O by Alejandro Thornton
This videopoema by the Argentine artist and writer Alejandro Thornton is — as Tom Konyves puts it in a new essay in Poetryfilmkanal — a “silent, minimalist, prototypical ‘concrete poem'”. Konyves’...
View ArticleMake America Great Again (Slogan) by David Hahn
A video collage by multi-media artist, Donna Kuhn, set to composer David Hahn‘s piece, “Make America Great Again”, addressing the contemporary political and cultural landscape of the USA, while...
View ArticlePlasticpoems by Fiona Tinwei Lam
A brilliant concrete videopoem directed and produced by Canadian poet Fiona Tinwei Lam with animation by Nhat Truong and sound design by Tinjun Niu. The Vimeo description notes that This short...
View ArticleHaiku by Martin Gerigk
Martin Gerigk takes a highly experimental approach to the traditional literary form of Japanese haiku in his film titled Haiku. The visual and spoken text elements include fragments from haiku by Iio...
View ArticleBlank by Linda France
Blank is another in a series of collaborations between film-maker Kate Sweeney and poet Linda France. Sweeney’s artist statement about the film: In the administrative section of the Bloodaxe Books...
View ArticleI’ll Write About It Later by Jessie Jing
I’ll Write About It Later is an author-made piece by Jessie Jing, a Malaysian dance artist, choreographer and writer based in London. I stumbled upon this interesting and affecting video in one of...
View ArticleThe Future is Ours by Andrew Roberts
A stop-motion videopoem by Brooklyn-based animator Andrew/Drew Roberts, uploaded to Vimeo nine years ago when he was making a whole series of poetic shorts under the banner Stop Motion Haiku,...
View ArticleUn/Write by Fiona Tinwei Lam
Vancouver-based poet and poetry filmmaker Fiona Tinwei Lam collaborated with animation students Lara Renaud and Quinn Kelly back in February on this videopoem “about revision, redaction, and renewal.”...
View ArticleFoxtrot by Rosemary Norman
A fun text animation by long-time videopoem collaborators Stuart Pound and Rosemary Norman, who appear also to have a new videopoetry collection out, though I haven’t seen it yet.
View Articlecage-free by Donna Kuhn
This unique and original video was uploaded just two weeks ago. Described as an “animation collage of dreams”, cage-free is by multi-media artist, Donna Kuhn. As well she is a sometime poet in an...
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