Snowflakean Thoughts
Toutes Les Beautes Levees du Monde
Nuages
Pourquoi
Pal video , 1-2 minutes each, 2010
These videos were made specifically for the International Film Festival "Carbunari 2010" in Paris. Experimental films which participated at FIFE 2010 illustrated the poems presented at the 33th edition of The French-English Poetry Festival, organized by the LA TRADUCTIERE magazine No. 28, Paris, June 2010. You can find more details about the French-English Poetry Festival on the site of the festival: www.festrad.com , curated by Mircea Bochis.
While I did have English translations of each of them, I felt that the French reading, especially with a Quebecois accent, would bring an interesting undertone to them. For the voice I hired a 2009 graduate from our film program, Ariane Desrosiers.
The videos are about winter.
Snowflakean Thoughts (poem by James A. Emanuel)
and
Toutes Les Beautes Levees du Monde (previously untitled poem by Sylviane Dupuis)
were chosen for official selection and screening.
Nuages (poem by Max Alhau)
and
Pourquoi (poem by Anthony Phelps)
were also included.