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Thanks, Stephen. I was completely undercover on this occasion. Both curators of these screenings at the Freer have told me not to turn on my illuminated pen. No one saw my writing performance & I couldn't see what I was writing. Vertov was testing out a number of formally-innovative moves in this early work and one did indeed literally witness on screen the same geographic site in a number of extremely- angled positions and multi-layered superimpositions. I note that Dziga Vertov (aka Denis Kaufman, aka The Humming Top) started writing poetry at age 10. Haven't you performed under the umbrella of the San Francisco programmers kino 21? Barry On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:59:09 -0700, Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >I like this one, Barry - talk about sleight of hand! The poet as undercover agent - "at a different angle" so to speak/to write. > >Stephen >http://stephenvincent.net/blog/ >--- On Wed, 6/10/09, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >From: Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Snapped Within KINO-EYE >To: [log in to unmask] >Date: Wednesday, June 10, 2009, 11:35 AM > >KINO-EYE > > via Dziga Vertov > > >KINO-EYE demonstrates how to dive. >KINO-EYE witnesses the birth of the village troupe. > >Same place seen at a different angle. > >A police officer of the old regime. >It is unacceptable that you know of it. > >I will return somewhere up the street. > > >Barry Alpert / Silver Spring, MD US / 6-10-09 (2:33 PM) > > >Lucky to get anything written down considering that I arrived at the Freer Gallery of Art >later than I had hoped, had to sit in the back without benefit of the light from the screen, >& barely deciphered the live voice translation of the Russian intertitles which faintly >originated from the front of the museum's auditorium. Still, looking at the finished >version as objectively as I can, I'm happy with this half-sonnet which I'm able to regard >as a significant minor work amongst the numerous cine-poems I've written.