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Over the years, I have created a cluster of short VideoPoems using text from my favorite poets (Neruda, Rimbaud, Plath, Tzara, Rilke & others) as oblique narratives. These poems are not read like poems per se or or are they performed as they do in Poetry Slams. They are instead spoken as as narratives, as in telling a story, to moving images invoked by the spirits dwelling in the words themselves. I have posted one of these VideoPoems on YouTube to demonstrate what I mean.
This one is 4 minutes long; the text ("Mouvement") is by Arthur Rimbaud (Nick Walker and Deanna Anderson, dancers; videography and spoken words by myself; singing and music by Sylvi Alli).
www.youtube.com/watch
This one is 4 minutes long; the text ("Mouvement") is by Arthur Rimbaud (Nick Walker and Deanna Anderson, dancers; videography and spoken words by myself; singing and music by Sylvi Alli).
www.youtube.com/watch
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Re: Poetry as oblique narrative; Rimbaud example
Mon, November 10, 2008 - 9:00 AMlovely. thanks for sharing!
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Re: Poetry as oblique narrative; Rimbaud example
Wed, November 26, 2008 - 7:35 PMJust watched it....especially got into the last minute or so and the last shot of the ship with the seagulls and woman's voice (your wife or daughter singing?) did something strange to me I can't quite put into words. It felt sooo familiar!
watched a couple interviews with you on you tube.....enjoyed much....was good to see you speaking, great storyteller and good life stories.....identified with the play of sychronicity bringing keys.... -
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Re: Poetry as oblique narrative; Rimbaud example
Wed, November 26, 2008 - 10:09 PMthanks for your kind words, both of you.
that's sylvi (wife) singing and drumming on "mouvement".
this piece works so much better blown up on a really big screen. it's a shame to compress it down to YouTube-size but it can give a sense of what i was going for: a summoning and transmission of the spirits in Rimbaud's text. "Mouvement" is part of a series of short VideoPoems called LOADED VISIONS. Other poets I love, whose text i used in this way, include Tristan Tzara, Pablo Neruda, Sylvia Plath, Rilke and H.D. (Hilda Doolittle).
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