Videopoem workshop with Tom Konyves

The relationship between image and text has interested experimental filmmakers almost from the beginning of cinema. Different methods of combining film and language / poetry have been proposed and introduced as terms in various phases of the 20th century, such as the film poem, poetry film, film essay, the video poem, text film, etc. In each of these types/genres, filmmakers experimented with methods of combining verbal language and image, such as the use of text on the screen (a tradition that begins already in silent cinema and reaches its peak within fluxus films), the use of poetic voice over and spoken word (often with the poets themselves reading their own works), the idea of actual language translations to pictures, as well as the research of poetic forms in the cinema, ie the investigation of a concept of a more "vertical", lyrical filmmaking form that reminds of the tradition of modernist poetry.
In the context of TextMe_Lab, Tom Konyves, a poet, filmmaker and researcher based in Vancouver, will organize a workshop where he will share with the participants some of the methodologies of the ‘videopoem', a hybrid cinematic genre whose term he coined in 1978. The workshop invites poets and filmmakers to collaborate in order to make a videopoem in one day, using some of the methodological tactics that Tom himself will describe, but also with any means of image and language production they prefer for the composition of their work. The participation in the workshop is free of charge and open to poets and filmmakers who have their own production means (camera and computer with editing software). The workshop will take place in English.

To register, please send an email to fil.ieropoulos@atopos.gr until the 14 th of June.

ATOPOS CVC inaugurates the #TextMe project, a year of actions and events on books and text in media arts in the context of UNESCO’s ‘Athens 2018, World Book Capital’. #TextMe was an original concept by Atopos artistic director Vassilis Zidianakis.
Within this context, researcher Fil ieropoulos has curated #TextMe_Lab, a series of lectures, discussions, screenings, workshops and residencies of artists and academics at Atopos. The projects will revolve around the thematic of using text in artistic forms and interdisciplinary language applications. Some of the main points of interest of the programme are visual poetry, word and screen relationships, spoken word and the boundaries between poetry and sound art, as well as modern linguistic phenomena in online pop culture and new media. - The workshop videopoems with Tom Konyves is the seventh event of #TextMe_Lab.