poetry videos:

18 August 2001 - Saturday
shown after 8:00 PM
at Center Portion, 2850-1/2 W Fullerton

Heather Haley presents videos from the Vancouver Videopoem Festival 1999 Touring Reel. Below are the selections for this reel, listed first by artist or ensemble, followed by the videopoem title:

• Zaffi Gousopoulos - "Bubblegum Alley"
• Alyson Vinshnovska and Annabelle Chvostek - "The Carrying"
• Tom Konyves - "Sign Language, Percussion, Hopscotch"
• Christopher Reiner - "Wedding Song"
• Doug Knott - "In the Hebrew Cemetary, I Become Surreal at an Art Opening"
• Quraysh Ali Lansana - "Passage"
  (Kurt Heintz, Producer)
• Verbomotorhead - "What If A Much Of A Wind" by ee cummings
  (Kedrick James, Producer)
• bill bissett - "dew what u want"
  (Anne Ahmed and Thomas Michalak, Producers)
• Adeena Karasick - "Alphabet City"
• Patricia Smith - "Chinese Cucumbers"
  (Kurt Heintz, Producer)
• Laurel Ann Bogen - "Wings: That Which Takes Flight"

Additionally, Heather Haley will present these selections from the 2000 Vancouver Videopoem Festival Touring Reel:

• Kirk Miles - "Buffalo Roaming"
• Bud Osborn - "100 Block Rock"
• Kirk Cameron and David Bateman - "The Bather"
• Arias & Aragon (Peru) - "Poesia Visual"
• Carol Geddes - "Creation"
• Margaret Atwood - "This Is a Photograph of Me" and "Lead"

Kent Foreman will show a short film featuring his jazz colleague Oscar Brown.

Mary Russell and Gerard Wozek will showcase their recent videos:

• "Metro Haiku" -
  a three minute meditation on the Japanese poetic form which recently screened in Boston at the Haiku North America Conference

• "Elemental Reels" -
  an "Enya-esque" approach to nature's essences

Click for the full evening's program on 18 August.

Click the roster of featured artists.

The full evening includes discussions with presenting artists -- Sean Culver, Heather Haley, Kent Foreman, Gerard Wozek, and Mary Russell -- on the development of poetry video and other visual/new media arts that relate to poetry.

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