The combination of film and poetry is an attractive one. For the poet, perhaps a hope that the filmmaker will bring something to the poem: a new audience, a visual attraction, the laying of way markers; for the filmmaker, a fixed parameter to respond to, the power of a text sparking the imagination with visual connections and metaphor. A filmpoem is a single entwined entity, a melting, a cleaving together of words, sound and vision. It is an attempt to take a poem and present it through a medium that will create a new artwork, separate from the original poem. Poetry often tries to deal with the abstract world of thought and feeling, rather than the literal world of things. The filmpoem is the perfect marriage of the two.
-ed from Alastair Cook on Vimeo.
Alastair Cook’s filmpoems can be seen at http://filmpoem.com and his artistic work at http://alastaircook.com/
He is currently working on a filmpoem for Andrew Philip’s poem, ‘MacAdam Takes to the Sea’ the Hidden Door poetry project Impossible Journeys. Two of his filmpoems, ‘Scene’ and ‘Emily Melting’, are being screened at the ZEBRA Film Festival in Berlin this month.
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