Abachan is a landscape incantation, written in Lybster, Caithness at a time of crisis; it is unlikely that I will make another filmpoem with a poem of my own.
This is for my mother.
It will be premiered at the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics meet at Brantwood, John Ruskin's house, on Coniston in the Lake District, March 26th 2011.
With thanks to David Fyans and Victoria MacRae.
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Prodigal is a film of Kona Macphee's poem, which was born from Andrew Philip's project for the second Hidden Door festival, held in Edinburgh in October 2010: I was asked to record a reading of the poem. As I read it, I felt it's power and resolved to make a filmpoem. I commissioned a cello piece from Rebecca Rowe and we performed this live at the Poetry Association of Scotland's meeting on 9th March 2011, at the Scottish poetry Library. A new direction…
"Now I will tell my stories of bodies that change . . ."
Ovid, Metamorphoses
Condition of Fire is a film by Alastair Cook of seven poems from New Jersey poet Jennifer Lynn Williams debut collection. As her publisher, Tony Frazer, writes: "Ovid expressed the truth that to change is to survive, and this message erupts out of the poems in Condition of Fire, whose language and images strive to communicate in new ways the essential elements of myth, creation…
Naming is a film by Alastair Cook of a poem by US poet Scott Edward Anderson. Scott’s poetry received the Nebraska Review Award and the Aldrich Emerging Poets Award and appeared in the recent issue of Anon. You can read more of his poetry at http://seapoetry.wordpress.com and http://scottedwardanderson.com.
Naming was premiered at The Out of the Blue Drill Hall in Edinburgh in January 2011; it was shot entirely on Kodachrome Super8 in 2010 and contains…
MacAdam Takes to the Sea is a filmpoem by Alastair Cook of Andrew Philip's wonderful eponymous poem. The film was commissioned for the second Hidden Door festival in Edinburgh and was premiered on 23rd October 2010. It will also be shown at StAnza, the Scottish Poetry Festival, from 16-20th March 2011.
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http://www.stanzapoetry.org/2011/participant.php?participant=336
-ed is my film of a poem by Mairi Campbell-Jack, from her as yet unpublished (nudge) collection This is a Poem. You can read more of Mairi's work on her Twitter stream: http://twitter.com/lumpinthethroat
It took a long time for me to begin this filmpoem for two reasons: I have been busy with this summer's solo film and photography show as part of the Edinburgh Festival; also the poem is dark and yet meditative, lifting to a powerful crescendo and…
Adrift is my film of a poem by Juliet Wilson, from her debut Unthinkable Skies.
My filmpoems can be viewed at http://filmpoem.com and my work as an artist and photographer at http://alastaircook.com
You can read more of Juliet's work on her blog, http://craftygreenpoet.blogspot.com. Juliet is published by Colin Will's Dunbar based http://calderwoodpress.co.uk
Adrift is the first of a series of films with Juliet, which was premiered at Alastair's…
Filmpoem is a collaborative film project by artist Alastair Cook.
Alastair is a fine art photographer and filmmaker; he exhibits 35mm film photographs and screens his films internationally.
"The combination of film and poetry is an attractive one. For the poet, perhaps a hope that the filmmaker will bring something to the poem: a new audience, a visual attraction, the laying of way markers; for the filmmaker, a fixed
Filmpoem is a collaborative film project by artist Alastair Cook.
Alastair is a fine art photographer and filmmaker; he exhibits 35mm film photographs and screens his films internationally.
"The combination of film and poetry is an attractive one. For the poet, perhaps a hope that the filmmaker will bring something to the poem: a new audience, a visual attraction, the laying of way markers; for the filmmaker, a fixed parameter to respond to, the power of a text sparking the imagination with visual connections and metaphor."
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