Exploring Contemplative Effects in text-based video poems
In 2005 I first began experimenting with rhythmic effects in relation to text-based, minimalist video poems, as an extension of my work as a painter, filmmaker and writer.
In 2005 I first began experimenting with rhythmic effects in relation to text-based, minimalist video poems, as an extension of my work as a painter, filmmaker and writer.
In this essay I will present my way of creating visual poetry as moving poems, and explain the selection of various fonts I use in my works. So far, I have used four different fonts in books, graphic art and films. In the end, I will conclude how I consider my choices from a retrospective.
Film des Monats Juli 2017 • M it LONG RONG SONG setzt Ottar Ormstad seine Erforschung der visuellen Poesie fort. Der Film ist 2015 in einer Zusammenarbeit des norwegischen Dichters mit dem russischen Musiker Taras Mashtalir und dem Animationskünstler Alexander Vojjov enstanden.