Talking Points
Terms of Service, Illustration, Performance
Terms of Service, Illustration, Performance
Versogramas, the 2017 film directed by Belén Montero, is apparently the world’s first documentary about videopoetry, and as such, it’s likely that viewers may come to it with heightened expectations which will not be fulfilled. Taken on its own terms, however, I found it a delightful romp with a few glaring defects. It has great potential as a teaching aid in the poetry or film classroom—especially if, as I hope, its official web release is accompanied by links to all the videos and videopoets in the film. It’s also available as part of a bookDVD from Editorial Galaxia (which I have not seen).
Beobachtungen zum 2. Weimarer Poetryfilmpreis 2017
Die Gewinner des 2. Weimarer Poetryfilmpreises sind die Filme STANDARD TIME (Hauptpreis), HEARTBREAK (Special mention) und THE LAST TIME (Publikumspreis).
Die Gewinner des 2. Weimarer Poetryfilmpreises werden ausgewählt von: Ebele Okoye, Dave Bonta und Stefan Petermann.
Die Literarische Gesellschaft Thüringen e. V. und das backup_festival der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar vergeben im Mai 2017 zum zweiten Mal den »Weimarer Poetryfilmpreis«.
In the long history of art and literature, poetry films are very new, and videopoems and their web derivatives are even newer. So why does their appeal seem so timeless?