For the We Shine Portsmouth festival of light one000plateaus delivered Octopuses & Other Sea Creatures, an immersive audio-visual spectacular for three nights at Portsmouth Cathedral.
Darkside Portside is a self-guided poetry film trail through an imagined 18th century Portsea, Portsmouth, UK.
In March 2019, The FRONT ROOM staged a second night of performance-poetry-film following up our Waving Not Drowning event in 2017. The event took place on Thursday 31st May at The Loft, Albert Road.
A night of ghastly short films, live cinema performance, spoken word and music – telling tales of gothic horror and supernatural terror.
The Front Room, organisers of Not Waving But Downing invited Dr Lighthouse to collaborate on the production of an event that would bring together poetry, film and performance into one unified experience.
Performance poet Stella Mandella’s poem revisits the classic story of Orpheus and passionately voices the too-little-heard voice of Eurydice, exploring the immense and awesome power of the negative suggestion.
The Night Walks Between Us by Bernard McDonagh – A Tongues and Grooves Project: poems by local poets who perform regularly at the Florence Arms in Portsmouth UK, set to music by Philly and visualised by Dr Lighthouse. Released as a CD with live performances to promote the release.
Poetry film is a sub-genre of film that fuses the use of spoken word poetry, visual images, and sound to create a stronger presentation and interpretation of the meaning being conveyed.
I recently came across an interesting website put together by Filieropoulos, a PhD student whose research is on the subject of Film Poetry. He suggests this is a “sort of genre/concern of experimental film that bridges structural and lyrical tendencies” and offers a couple of interesting papers on the subject. Film works across poetry, music, film and performance and you can see a body of his work on the website.
