[Frameworks] Haiku in film

[Chris Lange]

Looks like Morgan Dusatko made rules that translates syllables as seconds in a shot. That’s an interesting translation of form.

WTC Haikus by Jonas Mekas I found on youtube. Truly beautiful. Loose on definition with haiku; maybe it’s just influenced by haiku, just to be thought of as poetry, which it is. I thought the film footage was better and more vibrant than the video in this piece, but it’s all a great montage.

I will watch Lost Lost Lost. Looks like it’s on Amazon. Haha. Is it anywhere else?

I see Imperfect Three Image Films is on Lightcone.com <http://lightcone.com/>. Three images, like three lines in a poem. I’ll try to get it soon.

Pip, that’s a fun poem you have in memory: 

“On wet sidewalk
A lonely bicycle wheel
Locked to a tree”

Very good, and it could be a film.

-Chris


> On Jan 23, 2021, at 4:32 PM, FrameWorks Admin <frameworks at re-voir.com> wrote:
> 
> Jonas also made Fool’s Haikus and Rabbit Shit Haikus which were part of Lost Lost Lost edited in 1976.
> 
> His more recent Imperfect Three Image Films are haikus suggested by Julius Ziz who proposed making films with only three images and edited together a 45-minute program with films by Bruce Baillie, Jonas Mekas, Nicole Blachon, Moira Tierney, Masaki Hosokawa, Auguste Varkalis, Vanessa Von Houten, Kurt Karpenter, Stom Sogo, Ken Jacobs, Jeff Perkins, Julius Ziz.
> 
> Incidentally sometimes when spending time together in a bar Jonas would suggest we write haikus about something we saw during the day. One I remember is:
> 
> 	On wet sidewalk
> 	A lonely bicycle wheel
> 	Locked to a tree
> 
> -Pip Chodorov
> 
> 
> 
>> On Jan 24, 2021, at 8:14 AM, Kornelia Boczkowska <kornelia.boczkowska at gmail.com <mailto:kornelia.boczkowska at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> Jonas Mekas' WTC Haikus (2010) references the Haiku (though indirectly, according to Mekas).
>> 
>> W dniu 23.01.2021 o 20:13, Chris Lange pisze:
>> 
>>> Haiku poetry seems like it would work well in conjunction with images. I’ve seen photographers use haiku with images on Instagram. The poem expands upon the image.
>>> 
>>> Can you please recommend some films or filmmakers that make use of haiku?
>>> 
>>> Thank you,
> 
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