Films/Screenings
Initiated in 2007, the festival’s film programme is dedicated to showing both filmed poetry – either recordings of past readings or dramatisations of poetry – as well as the cutting edge medium of poetry film. A poetry film or videopoem strives for a symbiotic relationship of images, words, and sound and/or music. It can integrate all the arts – drama, dance, music, graphics and documentary elements. Some of the best poetry films and videopoems use stills, animation, documentary clips as well as abstract computer-generated graphics and narrative.
Wed 14 - Sun 18 March | 10.00am-10.00pm | In S T E R E O S C O P E
Poets respond to photographic images
The Byre Theatre, Abbey Street – Bar & Bistro
Also various times Wed 14 and Fri 16 March in the John Barbour Auditorium at The Fairmont, KY16 8PN
Wed 14 - Sun 18 March | 10.00am-10.00pm | Random
Occasional selected digital poetry and photography
The Byre Theatre, Abbey Street – Bar & Bistro
Also various times 13-15 March in the John Barbour Auditorium at The Fairmont, KY16 8PN
Thu 15 - Sun 18 March | 10.00am-10.00pm | Poetry Loops
Loop showing of films by Paul Casey, Samantha Clark, Kyra Clegg, Sue Grierson, Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl, Kevin McCabe, Alex Ramseyer-Bache & Daniel Lucchesi, and Maureen Sangster & Jennifer Kelly
The Byre Theatre, Abbey Street – Conference Room
Also various times Wed 14 and Fri 16 March in the John Barbour Auditorium at The Fairmont, KY16 8PN
Thu 15 March | 6.15-8.00pm | Submarine
A screening of the 2011 hit indie film based on Joe Dunthorne’s novel
The Byre Theatre, Abbey Street – Studio Theatre
Fri 16 March | 3.30-4.30pm | Filmpoem Live
A unique synthesis, a cleaving together of words, sound and vision
The Byre Theatre, Abbey Street – Studio Theatre
Sat 17 March | 7.30-7.45pm | The Sign – Astrology for a New Era (Tecknet - astrologi för en ny era
A short live webcast of the videoed performance by Sharks, the experimental poetry collective from Gothenburg.
The Byre Theatre, Abbey Street – Studio Theatre
Sun 18 March | 2.15-3.15pm | Split Screen
A stellar line-up of poets to launch this lively anthology of poems inspired by TV and film, introduced by the editor, Andy Jackson
The Byre Theatre, Abbey Street – Studio Theatre
Sun 18 March | 5.00-5.45pm | Psycho Poetica
Hitchcock’s classic film recreated in original poetry and music
The Byre Theatre, Abbey Street – Studio Theatre