Film & poetry/poetics discussion

A discussion on film & poetry relations and combinative methods with Rea Wallden,Tom Konyves and Fil Ieropoulos
Τhe 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 final event of the Atopos series on cinema and poetry, three researchers and artists on poetics will discuss some of the methodologies they are interested in and use in the analysis and creation of poetic cinematographic works. Rea Wallden, a researcher and philosopher on the cinematic image with an interest on the avant-garde, Fil Ieropoulos, an academic from Buckinghamshire New University with a doctoral dissertation on the film poem, and Tom Konyves, a poet and filmmaker from Vancouver who drafted the videopoem manifesto, invite the audience to an open discussion about the methodologies of poetic cinema, ideas on the synthesis of language, word and sound, definitions of poetry and the cinematic language, and interdisciplinary translational methods between visual and verbal expressive means. The discussion will take place in English.

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 Film & poetry/poetics discussion is part of the Film + Poetry series, the sixth event of #TextMe_Lab.