[Frameworks] Literature and experimental film

[William Wees, Dr.]

Okay, here are a few of my favourite poetry-films (I warned you they are, shall we say, archival):

Three short films from the National Film Board of Canada: "Travellers Palm," 1977 (poem by P.K. Page); "Poen" [sic], 1967 (Leonard Cohen, "Beautiful Losers"); "A Said Poem," 1977 ("found poetry" by J. R. Colombo)
Ian Hugo, "Bells of Atlantis," 1952 (Anaïs Nin, "House of Incest")
Rick Hancox, "Waterworx," 1982 (Wallace Stevens, "A Clear Day and No Memories")
Margaret Doogan, "Screw: A Technical Love Poem," 1972 (poem by Diane Wakowski)
Ed Akerman and Colin Morton, "Primi Too Taa," 1986 (dada poem by Kurt Schwitters)
Max Crosley, "Assassination Raga," 1972 (poem by Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
Henry Hills, "Kino Da!" 1981 (Jack Hirschman, poem in manner of Russian Futurists)
Rachel Libert, "Undertaker," 1995 (poetry performance by Patricia Smith)

--Bill Wees


From: FrameWorks [mailto:frameworks-bounces at jonasmekasfilms.com] On Behalf Of Esperanza Collado
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And very exciting answers too! Thank you everyone. Hopefully more Frameworkers will contribute to this topic.

Bill, please feel free to expand on poetry works, would love to know your favourite examples and I really dont mind if they arent recent.

Best,

E.

On Friday, September 27, 2013, Kelly Gallagher wrote:
Exciting topic! As a handcrafted cinema maker myself, my mind immediately goes to Jan Svankmajer. Many of his films are based off of literary tales and stories. (From writers such as Lewis Carroll, Edgar Allen Poe, Horace Walpole, etc). Ah, and then thinking of Poe, I think of about Jean Epstein's Fall of the House of Usher.
Best of luck!
-Kelly Gallagher
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On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 3:12 PM, William Wees, Dr. <william.wees at mcgill.ca<javascript:_e(%7b%7d,%20'cvml',%20'william.wees at mcgill.ca');>> wrote:
There are dozens, no, hundreds of poetry films and poetry videos (or videopoems), which is to says, films and videos that incorporate poetry and poetic texts on the sound track or in the images or both. Perhaps that is not the sort of thing you are looking for, but if it is I could send you titles of some of my favourite examples-though I have to say they would not include recent work (I haven't paid any serious attention to poetry films/videos since the 1990s). The person who has paid attention to the whole development of poetry films/videos and has published a manifesto on the subject is Tom Konyves. I don't think he would mind my giving you his email address: tomkonyves at gmail.com<javascript:_e(%7b%7d,%20'cvml',%20'tomkonyves at gmail.com');>.

--Bill Wees
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From: FrameWorks [mailto:frameworks-bounces at jonasmekasfilms.com<javascript:_e(%7b%7d,%20'cvml',%20'frameworks-bounces at jonasmekasfilms.com');>] On Behalf Of Esperanza Collado
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Subject: [Frameworks] Literature and experimental film

Dear friends,

Im currently lecturing a course on literature and visual arts and i would like to approach/show the students experimental films based in/inspired by literary pieces, only I need your help to do so. Any recommendations will be very welcome.

Thanks very much,

Esperanza.


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