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18 August 2001 - Saturday
poetry video screening: after 8:00 PM
at Center Portion, 2850-1/2 W Fullerton
$10 donation requested -
- good for entire evening
Following the forum will be a screening of works that bring together poetry and cinema. We'll sample video shorts from the Vancouver Videopoem Festival, the Riga Word in Motion Festival, and take a look at Sen. Eugene McCarthy in his retirement, as a poet reflecting on America's politics.
- The Vancouver Videopoem Festival
1999 Touring Reel Heather Haley presents the Edgewise ElectroLit Centre's touring reel from the 1999 Vancouver Videopoem Festival. This will be the American and/or Midwestern premiere for a number of the videos on the reel. Enjoy a glimpse into Canada's poetry video life. You just might see a few faces you'll recognize! In many regards, Vancouver has become the heir to Chicago's poetry video critique, but has expanded the dialogue between image and text in much more cinematic ways. [TRT: 58 minutes]
- I'm Sorry I Was Right
Chicago premiere: Poetry video veteran Mike Hazard of The Center for International Education (the CIE; St. Paul, Minnesota), tracks former US senator and presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy in his retirement, and reveals the poet in the politician. McCarthy, an outstanding advocate for peace in Vietnam in the turbulent 1968 US elections, has no regrets. See why, through McCarthy's political insights, his eloquent poetry, and occasional stops at his corner store to share coffee with "the guys." [TRT: 28 minutes]
A portrait of a poet and an American statesman: Eugene McCarthy
[photo: John Perrone, 1968]
Additional videos by...
The "Word in Motion" Poetry Video Festival, Riga, Latvia. There's evidence that poetry video is alive and well in far-flung places. We offer three pieces of different tactics, all spoken in Russian. Young artists in the former Eastern Bloc are accessing new media for the first time, and combining them with the long-standing spoken traditions of their homelands.
Derelict Soviet submarines, the metro and the neighborhood café, and snowy forests are the backdrops for rants, chilly epiphanies, and post-Iron Curtain gangster scenes. So Latvia, small nation that it is, is not without its own drama. Word in Motion also dispatched a lush audiopoetry CD to us which will be part of the evening's background music at Center Portion.
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