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Welcome to Newcastle's first Poetry Film Festival

Poetry films are not illustrated poems, nor are they texts combined with moving images. They are autonomous pieces which unify the spoken or written language of poetry with the visual language of film, creating a new form of 'image-language'. Poetry films have always been a part of the tradition of experimental film, usually without being granted the attention they deserve. Poetry films also allow poets to enter new domains and to release poems to a wider audience.

The programme that we have put together for the festival embraces the entire history of poetry films and includes screenings of rare films from the early part of the 20th century, courtesy of the BFI and Lux archives, alongside films made in the north east of England in the past year. [...]

Tuesday, 7 December, 7.30pm:
As part of New Writing North and Tyneside Cinema's Poetry Film Season, we present a programme, curated by Peter Todd, that explores the possibilities of the film poem, presenting work which in some cases draw upon an actual poem while in others they are 'film poems' in their own right. William C Wees defines them as offering “modes of communication that push against the limits of everyday use of language (as does poetry) and conventional forms of filmmaking (as does avant-garde film). They are, like all interesting art, greater than the sum of their parts.

The Side Cinema is on Newcastle's Quayside, next to the Side Cafe, 9 Side, Newcastle, NE1 3JE. [link: scroll to the bottom]

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