Other Videos

Aquarium

(2011, 1:08 minutes)
Animation by Chelsea Ker
Sound design by Tinjun Niu.
Poem written and narrated by Fiona Tinwei Lam

This poetry video is based on a short poem of mine that appeared in Best Canadian Poetry 2010, edited by Lorna Crozier. The images unfold from inside the aquarium (luminous, intimate, colourful) to the outside (cool, impersonal), with the colours and sounds shifting as the view gradually zooms out to convey the emotional trajectory of the poem.

Screenings:

Neighborhood

August 2022, 4:12 min Click here to see video.
Directed by  Pamela Falkenberg and Jack Cochran in consultation with Fiona Tinwei Lam
Narrated by and based on a poem by Fiona Tinwei Lam

A videopoem juxtaposing oblivious suburban complacency with fragments of international news broadcasts about the climate crisis. We are everywhere connected, yet profoundly disconnected. (The poem is narrated toward the end of the film.)
[Not currently available for view while being submitted to festivals.]

Screenings

Chrysanthemum

(2009, 2:32 minutes)
Filmed by Alan Goldman.
Poem written and narrated by Fiona Tinwei Lam. Scene design by Shona Lam.

This is my very first attempt at a poetry video done with documentary filmmaker and teacher, Alan Goldman, who was game to try this out. My sister Shona Lam helped set up my mother’s art supplies in front of a green screen.

Screenings:

  • Visible Verse 2009 (Vancouver)
  • International Poetry Film Festival 2013 (Athens)

Legacy

February 2021, 2:03 minutes
Click on the image above to watch the video.
Produced and directed by filmmakers Jack Cochran & Pam Falkenberg (Outlier Moving Pictures) in collaboration with Fiona Tinwei Lam.
Poem and narration by Fiona Tinwei Lam.

Screenings

Publication:

The Hyacinth Review, April 21/23 (online)

August Raspberries

(56 min, 2021)

Poem written and narrated, and music composed and performed by Fiona Tinwei Lam
Photographs by Heidi Greco, Shannon Cowan and Fiona Tinwei Lam
Technical Design by Teegan Walshe

Talented eighth grade filmmaker, Teegan Walshe, created a montage of photos on iMovie. This was put together for an online screening of nature-based poetry videos for the Virtual Seedy Saturdays conference with Farm Folk/City Folk in 2021.