On 30/08/12 09:42, Max Richards wrote:
> is this, from Poetry Foundation, relevant as history?
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> POETRY FOUNDATION FALL 2012 EVENTS
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> Poetry Presents
Yes, thank you so much. I suspected 16mm film would have to be in there.
Andy Warhol also did some interesting 16mm films, which involved poetry,
from memory. (There are some Warhol films in the Aust National Film
Library. Bikey Boy, I remember seeing at uni.)
> Seeing the Light: Intersections of Cinema and Poetry
> Friday, September 7, 7 pm
> Southside Hub of Production
> 5638 South Woodlawn Avenue, Hyde Park
> Free admission
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> There is a well-established history of poetry and cinema commingling, yet poetry shares the most with the tradition of experimental/avant-garde cinema, those films that are unburdened by the constraints of narrative logic, stylistic continuity, and mainstream approval. Borrowing the title from James Broughton’s tract on cinema, South Side Projections andPoetry magazine present a program of three short films by renowned experimental directors, each with poetic roots. Broughton’s Four in the Afternoon (1951, 16mm, 15 min.) adapts poems from his book Musical Chairs into a series of vignettes about four eccentric characters in search of love. Narrated by Orson Welles, Larry Jordan’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1977, 16mm, 40 min.) warps Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s classic ballad into a chromatic fever dream. Stan Brakhage’s Deus Ex (1971, 16mm, 33 min.) was inspired by a Charles Olson poem and Brakhage’s own frequent hospital visits. The film uses footage of an open-heart surgery to raise questions about our obsession with extending life beyond its natural boundaries.
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> Co-sponsored with South Side Projections
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