tanka is a japanese form of poetry, similar to but variant from haiku...

I've been writing tanka and haiku for many years...

tanka and haiku have long histories in japan and are now popular forms of contemporary poetry in many languages...

perhaps the brevity of haiku and tanka synchronises with current trends in media, communication and attention spans...

'video tanka' is a proposition to create shortform video sequences that simply combine the text of a tanka poem with sound and image, to create a sense of mood, feeling or experience, to point to something without necessarily revealing it, to explore a syncretic potential...