Insomnie at La parola immaginata (2013)

Insomnie (2012) has been selected for the 6th EDITION of the video poetry competition LA PAROLA IMMAGINATA in Treviglio, Italy.

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Trevigliopoesia is VIDEOPOETRY: Video-Art, Video Documentary and Poetry Film.
The word as language but also a symbol that becomes an element as the expression of thoughts, images, visions of the poets and their lives. Combining inspirations and influences from the field of philosophy, music, theatre and literature the result of the artistic creation meet the public showing the perfect union between POEM and VIDEO.

Under the patronage of the Office of Culture of the town of Treviglio, the arts association Nuvole in viaggio advertises the sixth edition of the video poetry competition LA PAROLA IMMAGINATA.

6th EDITION FINALISTS

• ALMADHOUN, Ghayath / SILKEBERG, Marie – “Your Memory is My Freedom” (Sweden)
• CAPDEVILA, Marc / ZANOGUERA, Tià / BALASCH, Albert – “A fora” (Spain)
• DALLA LIBERA, Antonio – “Firenze sovietica” (Italy)
• DIEM, Melissa – “The one about the bird” (Ireland)
• DUGAS, Daniel – “Insomnia” (Canada)
• GEMMI, Alberto – “Go Burning Atacama Go” (Italy)
• LeBLANC, Valerie – “Missing Parade Notes” (Canada)
• NEYES, Marc (Swoon) – “Drift” (Belgium)
• PEETERS, Jan – “Guesswork. Variation 8″ (Belgium)

SPECIAL MENTION UNDER 20

• CASCONE, Graziano / MARCHETTI, Ilaria (Liceo Artistico Statale Casorati di Novara) – “L’alba” (Italy)

NEXT STEPS

• all the videos are going online at www.videopoesia.org by the end of april
• selected videos are going to be shown in TREVIGLIOPOESIA 2013 (details soon available on this site); the winner is going to be announced during the last evening event of the Festival (june 2, 2013)

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Insomnie at PoetryFilm (2013)

My video, Insomnie, will be screened as part of a special one-off PoetryFilm event celebrating the Equinox with a bespoke programme of experimental short films and poetry performances exploring: circles, cycles, sequences, planets and patterns.

Venue: Charlotte Street Hotel Cinema (located downstairs)

Address: 15-17 Charlotte Street, London WIT 1RJ. Nearest tubes: Tott Court Road or Goodge Street (Northern Line).

PoetryFilm celebrates films based on poems, poems turned into films, collaborations, text-based films, and other avant-garde text/image material. Events feature short films accompanied by live performances or discussion.

Synopsis: A television show on the Big Bang theory adds to the anguish of not being able to sleep. What would happen to dreaming if time itself disappeared?

Ma vidéo, Insomnie, sera présentée au PoetryFilm lors de l’événement Equinox au Charlotte Street Hotel Cinema, à Londres.

Synopsis: Une émission de télévision sur la théorie du Big Bang vient ajouter à l’angoisse de ne pas pouvoir dormir. Qu’arriverait-il au sommeil si le temps lui-même disparaissait ?

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*Circles, Cycles, Sequences, Planets, Patterns*

A special PoetryFilm event celebrating the Equinox with a bespoke programme of experimental short films, poetry readings and music performances exploring circles, cycles, sequences, planets and patterns.

Time: 7.30pm

Venue: Charlotte Street Hotel Cinema (located downstairs)

Address: 15-17 Charlotte Street, London WIT 1RJ. Nearest tubes: Tott Court Road or Goodge Street (Northern Line).

For further information, please contact Malgorzata at info@poetryfilm.org

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*PROGRAMME*

FLOATERS IN THE EYE (Antoinette Zwirchmayr, 3m)
The text of Paul Celan’s poem Schliere (Floaters) is printed with a Braille writing machine onto black leader, thus translating it into Braille writing. The 16mm film is actually readable to a blind person through physical touch, though projected onto the screen the writing transforms into an unidentifiable code of bright spots. These sequences are cut with sewing scenes, the sewing referencing the restrictions of (visual) language to a blind person, and perhaps also the limits of language itself.

THERE IS NO ORIGINAL (dir: Stephen Snell, Steven Chamberlain; words: Steve Coxon; sound: Ohmm, 3m51)
The film was created entirely on sticky tape.

The sticky tape is played through a specially adapted projector which creates unusual visuals. The experimental medium pioneered here lends itself to processes usually associated with montage, direct to film techniques and media specific techniques, notably “flayed paper”.

ONE MOMENT PASSES (words: Robert Lax; computer animation: Susanne Wiegner, 3m)
One Moment Passes is a meditative game of patterns with “is” and “was”; past and present. Three different time layers – the past, present and future – are put on top of each other to create the very moment of presence. The film starts and ends with a step-by-step perception: reading, hearing, seeing.

INSOMNIA (dir: Daniel Dugas, 3m)
Dictionaries hold all the words of languages and images hold all the feelings in the world.  A television show about the Big Bang theory adds to the anguish of not being able to sleep. What would happen to dreaming if time itself disappeared?

Words:

SIMON BARRACLOUGH
Simon Barraclough is the author of Los Alamos Mon Amour (Salt, 2008), Bonjour Tetris (Penned in the Margins, 2010) and Neptune Blue (Salt, 2011). He is the editor of Psycho Poetica (Sidekick Books, 2012) and co-deviser and co-author of The Debris Field (Sidekick Books, 2013).

This evening he will read “the planet suite” from Neptune Blue.

QUANTUM LOVE (dir: Laura Focarazzo; sound art: David Horner, 6m)
Inspired by quantum physics, the film explores the idea of uncertainty.

DRIFT (Mark Khalife, 5m07)
A couple lives on the other side of the world to each other and cannot be awake at the same time. The film explores dualities of time and through a circadian cycle spanning two time zones.

METAMORPHOSE DU PAPILLON (Dir: Pere Ginard and Laura Gines, 5m)
A revision / reinterpretation / rewriting of Gaston Ville’s eponymous film (1906) exploring the cycle of life through metamorphosis.

Words:

Tim Cumming
Tim Cumming was born in Solihull and was brought up in the West Country. His poetry collections include The Miniature Estate (1991), Apocalypso (1992, 1999), Contact Print (2002) and The Rumour (2004). His work has appeared in anthologies including The Forward Poems of the Decade, and Identity Parade (Bloodaxe). He made the acclaimed Hawkwind: Do Not Panic documentary for the BBC in 2007 and writes regularly for The Independent and The Guardian on music and the arts. His film poem Radio Carbon was premiered at PoetryFilm at the Renoir cinema in 2009.

This evening Tim Cumming will read new poems including Plate Tectonica, which features the mathematical algorithm as a metaphor.

THE SHELL OF THE WORLD (dir. and words: Robert Peake; music: Valerie Kampmeier, 10m39)
A sequence of 7 parts exploring patterns of belonging and alienation. Shot on iPhone and edited on a laptop.

KISSING IN HATS (dir: Stuart Pound; words: Rosemary Norman, 1m30)
The poem is a villanelle, a verse form where the regular repetition of two key lines gives added urgency to what is being said. The effect is intensified by multiple looping of the speaker’s voice as a moving path scans across four line drawings.

ANFORTAS (dir: Carolyn Radio an Alanna Simone; words: Carolyn Radio, 5m24)
The work was originally produced as a 3-channel, 3-wall installation and is being shown tonight as a single film. Anfortas is a stop-motion animation of everyday objects used to convey larger metaphysical ideas. Woven choreographies of red and white items are overlaid with a story intertwining creation myths with a knight’s quest for the transformative vessel.

MY FILM ENTRY (dir: Neil Ira Needleman, 1m50)
The director writes: “It would be too easy to write something here about “life imitating art” or “art imitating life”. But it’s much simpler than that. Here’s how I see it: the world has become a complicated place. Too complicated for me. I now seek solace, salvation and inner peace by performing tasks that are simple and pure. In a complicated and ambiguous world, it doesn’t get any simpler than this. I hope you enjoy it, because as soon as this video is over, the complications begin. Simply yours, Neil.”

Words and Sounds:

NIALL MCDEVITT (15m)
Niall McDevitt is a poet, author of b/w (Waterloo Press, 2010), literary tour guide (poetopography.wordpress.com) and poetry editor of International Times (www.internationaltimes.it).

This evening he will perform with a bodhran drum which is circular and beautifully patterned. His poems will celebrate the millennium, the drum, and the zero

Cafe Poet Program (2012)

Good news from Australia and the USA! I have been selected for the Cafe Poet Program from the Australian Poetry for a six months residency at the Marrickville Road Cafe in Sydney. My residency starts on July 1st 2012. I have also been invited by JUiCYHEADS, a New York-based ezine/website, to be one of their poetry columnists. I will be contributing texts to JUiCYHEADS from my Australian project every two weeks for the duration of the residency.

Here is a description of the Cafe Poet Program:
The Cafe Poet Program places poets in cafes as ‘poets in residence’ for a six month period. The poet is given space to write (maybe two or three times a week – in consultation with the cafe) as well as complimentary tea and/or coffee and in return the cafe gets to be part of this community, promotion and the opportunity to plan events with the poet enriching the cultural life of the cafe (and hopefully the number of patrons). The program began at AP in February 2009 and has been a huge success, placing more than twenty poets in cafes all over the country and receiving extensive media coverage. We have also connected cafe poets with various opportunities including working with RMIT media students and being published in the 2009 edition of Blue Dog: Australian Poetry.

Check out the Cafe Poet facebook page 

Marrickville Road Cafe



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