Online magazines/anthologies about Poetry Videos

• Moving Poems: The Best Poetry Videos on the Web: An ongoing anthology of the best poetry videos around the web. Subscribe for a free weekly round-up sent by email
• Poetry Film Live: a UK-based online magazine  
• Film Poetry https://filmpoetry.org/
• Liberated Words http://liberatedwords.com/ 

History

• A Short History of Poetry Film: an 11 minute short film about the earliest films that integrate poetry

Essays/Books

• Tom Konyves, “Videopoetry: A Manifesto”
• Dave Bonta, “Videopoetry: What is it, Who Makes it and Why?” 
• The Poetics of Poetry Film, edited by Sarah Tremlett (Intellect Books, 2021): this encyclopedic work classifies the different types of poetry film, citing works from poetry filmmakers worldwide.  

Local Video Poetry Exhibits and Talks

• Poets with a Video Camera:  Video Poetry 1980-2020
  • Recorded tour by guest curator Tom Konyves at The Surrey Art Gallery exhibit, Sept 17/22-Dec 11/22 : Poets with a Video Camera, the largest retrospective of videopoetry in Canada to date. The exhibition featured over twenty-five works by some of the world’s leading practitioners. It was organized around five categories of videopoetry: kinetic text, visual text, sound text, performance, cin(e)poetry.
  • Symposium: Two or Three Things One Should Know About Videopoetry hosted by Guest Curator Tom Konyves and Jordan Strom, Surrey Art Gallery at Surrey Public Library (November 5, 2022) featuring keynote speaker Sarah Tremlett, with presentations by Kurt Heintz, Heather Haley, Javier Robledo, Adeena Karasick, Jim Andrews, Fiona Tinwei Lam, Daniel Dugas, Valerie LeBlanc, and Matt Mullins

How to Make a Poetry Film/Video

• Matt Mullins’ presentation, “This is the Way It Happens” or “Two or Three Things You Might Be Interested to Know About His Videopoetry” for Nov 5/22 Symposium for Poets with a Video Camera: Videopoetry 1980–2020 exhibit, Surrey Art Gallery) (14.23 minutes)
• Training and Resources section of the webmagazine, Poetry Film Live which covers getting started, what makes a good poetry film, basic equipment, approaches to making a poetry film, filming, camera movement, angles, shots and composition, sound, lighting, editing, transitions and more
• The Institute for Experimental Arts https://filmpoetry.org/e-learning/ 

Examples of Contemporary Canadian Poetry Videos Dealing with Place

• Take Me Home Series: “City Centre”: a poem by former Vancouver poet laureate Evelyn Lau about the demolition of Vancouver homes, was turned into a poetry video directed by Jenn Strom which can be viewed online for free on Knowledge Network.
• “We have become children”: a poem by Al Rempel turned into a videopoem by Erica Goss.
• “Canoe”: a poem set in the Georgian Bay area of Ontario, written and narrated by Kate Flaherty Marshall, with live action videography and music by Mark Korven; and “Rose Quartz” also by Kate Flaherty Marshall, live action videography by Mark Korven, music by Gabe Flaherty which features sunset at Harold’s Point, Killbear Park, Ontario.
• “Drunken Laundry Day with Charles Bukowski: A Poem by Henry Doyle” an animated poetry video set in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, based on Henry Doyle’s poem made by a team led by Fiona Tinwei Lam with animator H. Kristen Campbell.
• “Winter Sleep”: a poem by Sheri Benning was turned into an atmospheric poetry video by Sheri Benning, her sister Heather Benning and filmmaker Chad Galloway and shot in the Rural Municipality of Wolverine Creek in Saskatchewan.
• “Wolf Lake”: a poem by Elizabeth Bachinsky about a young woman’s sexual assault and murder was turned into a poetry video by Michael Smith.
• “Novena”: a poem by Shirley Camia was turned into a short poetry video with the poet, animator Rosie Holtom and film editor Viktor Pesenti.  
• “How to Tie a Turban“: a poem by Amritpal Singh Arora with videography by Pardeep Singh, that links the act of tying a turban to a history of persecution and resilience, from WWI and Jallianwalla Bagh to the Kamagata Maru incident and Quebec’s Bill 21.
  

Some Examples of International Poetry Videos Dealing with Place (as recommended by Dave Bonta and Marie Craven of Moving Poems)

• T.I.A. (THIS is Africa) by Ronan Cheneau is a beautiful poetry film featuring place and dance.
• Deadlock by Lauren Jones (UK) is an animated “flicker film” with a stream of images to depict the story behind the origin of the CHUBB lock, invented by two ironmongers who worked on an old English street, Daniel Street in Portsmouth.
• Heliotropes by Michael Langan goes planetary
• El caballo ahogado / The Drowned Horse by Pablo Antonio Cuadra
• The Woods by Aina Villanger uses abstract imagery to accompany the narration/text
• america, i wanted to make you something beautiful but i failed by Matt Mullins

International Festivals for Poetry Video and Film

• Cadence Video Poetry Festival (Seattle, Washington, USA)
• The Film & Video Poetry Society (Los Angeles, California)
• International Poetry Video Festival (Athens, Greece)  
• Midwest Poetry Video Festival (Madison, WI, USA)
• O’Bheal International Poetry Film Festival (Cork, Ireland)
• REELpoetry Houston (Houston, Texas) 
• Videobardo (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
• Zebra Poetry Film Festival (Berlin, Germany)

Visit FilmFreeway for many more poetry film, experimental film, and short film festivals around the world.