Frame to Frames : Your Eyes Follow II: ekphrastic poetry + films

About Sarah Tremlett

Sarah Tremlett MPhil FRSA is a British prize-winning poetry film-maker poet artist and theorist and director and editor of Liberated Words online. She co-ran Liberated Words poetry film festival from 2012-16 with poet Lucy English. Exhibitor and key speaker at Tom Konyves' Poets with a Video Camera exhibition Surrey Vancouver (2022) she is a leading speaker juror and curator at festivals; most recently FOTOGENIA Mexico City; Women in Word Penzance UK and REELpoetry Houston USA with poetry readings in Vancouver & San Francisco 2022. Her publication The Poetics of Poetry Film https://www.intellectbooks.com/the-poetics-of-poetry-film (Intellect Books 2021) has been described as 'A ground-breaking encyclopaedic work and the industry Bible' and is held in over 650 university libraries worldwide.With poetry filmmaker Csilla Toldy as a director she is managing director of Poem Film Editions publishing books across poetry images and poetry film. The first publication is Frame to Frames : Your Eyes Follow a bilingual transmedia poetry book with colour images and a QR link to 17 poetry films. She also has a chapter on 'Voice and New Narrative frameworks' in Intermedial Art Practices as Cultural Resilience (Routledge 2024). Sarah runs a family history poetry film project alongside her own ongoing family history collection TREE. www.sarahtremlett.com. Her forthcoming commissioned collection Unexhibited (2025) with narrative poems and early paintings is available in 2025. It is about persona psychology life on the edge and a bohemian past identity surviving as an artist and model.CONTRIBUTORS BIOGRAPHIESJanee J. Baugher MFA is the author of the only craft book of its kind The Ekphrastic Writer: Cre- ating Art-Influenced Poetry Fiction and Nonfiction as well as two ekphrastic poetry collections Cooerdinates of Yes and The Body's Physics. As a collaborator she has had poems adapted for the stage and set to music at Interlochen Center for the Arts (Michigan) University of Cincinnati Contemporary Dance Theatre (Ohio) Dance Now! Ensemble (Florida) Otterbein University and University of North Carolina-Pembroke to name a few. Baugher is an assistant editor at Boulevard magazine (Missouri) and she's been a featured poet on Seattle Channel TV and at the Library of Congress. www.JaneeBaugher.com Mary McDonald is a Canadian writer and multimedia artist whose work explores words through sound image and movement. McDonald is passionate about creating with digital technology bringing text and multimedia art directly into community historic and natural spaces through AR (augmented reality). McDonald's multidisciplinary practice encompasses text photography poetry film music and immersive sound interactive AR (augmented reality) installations and community participa- tory arts projects. Her poetry films and AR installations have been exhibited widely in Canada and internationally. McDonald's poetry film and AR installation On the Margin of History was awarded first prize in new media performative and digital work Surrey Art Gallery Surrey Canada. https://marymcdonald.ca Patricia Killelea is a writer and multimedia artist living in the rural Upper Peninsula of Michi- gan. Her poetry films have been selected & screened at Det Poetiske Fonoteque: Nature & Culture Poetry Film Festival and the O Bheal International Poetry-Film Competition received Hon- orable Mention at the Midwest Video Poetry Fest and long-listed for the Rabbit Heart Poetry Film Festival. Patricia's films and essays on poetryfilm have been featured at FENCE Poetry Film Live Atticus Review and Moving Poems. She was Poetry Editor at Passages North from 2015-2022 and recently became a Poetry Editor at FENCE. She is an Associate Professor of English at Northern Michigan University. www.patriciakillelea.net Tova Beck-Friedman's work is rooted in fine arts. After years of working in sculpture and sculp- tural installations she has come to embrace films and poetry fusing poetry and moving images to create cine-poems. Her work has been shown in festivals museums galleries and on television including: The Poet's House NYC; VideoBardo Argentina; Drumshanbo Ireland; O Bheal Ireland (shortlisted); International Video Poetry Festival Greece; The Film & Video Poetry Symposium USA; Blissfest333 USA REELpoetry USA; International Poetry Film Festival of Thuringia Germany; Fotogenia Mexico. Her poems have been published in Whispers and Echoes magazine Extinction Rebellion Creative Hub and Fevers of the Mind. Her poem 'Vertigo' is part of the Starry Night Anthology of The Ekphrastic Review. The poem 'Hair' is part of the Fevers of the Mind Poetry Anthology. http://tbfstudio.com Alejandro Thornton is an Argentinian artist visual poet and Professor and researcher at the De- partment of Visual Arts of the National University of the Arts (U.N.A.). He has been published in numerous magazines and anthologies e.g. Traces of Argentine Visual Poetry (2014) Poeticas Oblicuas. Modes of Counterwriting and phonetic twists in experimental poetry 1956-2016 (2016) ...xyzA-Cdef... Anthology of Argentine Catalan Visual Poetry (2019) Proporcion Aurea (2023) and Visual Poetry. An Argentine and Brazilian anthology (2023). Recent publications include:Poemas Libres (Ireland 2022); Aquiahoraotravoz together with JM Calleja (Ireland 2021); Portraits of Solitude (2020); Abracadabra (2017)). In 2021 he won the III Paqui Jimenez Yepez International Visual Poetry Prize (Spain). https://alethornton.wixsite.com Colm Scully is a poet and poetry filmmaker from Cork Ireland. His films have been shown internationally and he recently won The Deanna Tulley Multimedia Prize 2022. He is curator at Drumshanbo Written Word Poetry Film Competition and judge at O Bheal Winter Warmer Poetry Film Prize. His poems have been published in many journals including Poetry Ireland Review and The Friday Poem. You can learn more at www.colmscully.com. Janet Lees is a lens-based artist poet and poetry filmmaker. She won the 2021 O Bheal Poet- ry-Film competition and has been selected by such festivals as: ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival the Aesthetica Art Prize and Festival Fotogenia. In 2022 her work featured in the landmark exhibition Poets with a Video Camera : Videopoetry 1980-2020. Her art photography has been exhibited worldwide and her poetry widely published in journals and anthologies. Her two books are House of water a collection of poems and art photographs and A bag of sky the win- ning collection in the Frosted Fire Firsts prize hosted by the UK's Cheltenham Poetry Festival. https://janetlees.weebly.com/ Lois P. Jones' first poetry collection Night Ladder was published by Glass Lyre Press and was a finalist for the Julie Suk Award. She is the winner of the 2023 Alpine Fellowship in poetry and previous winner of the Bristol Poetry Prize the Tiferet Poetry Prize and the Lascaux Poetry Prize. Jones' work has been published or is forthcoming in the Academy of American Poets Poetry Wales Mslexia Bridport Prize Anthology Plume Guernica Editions Agenda and elsewhere. Since 2007 she has hosted KPFK's Poets' Cafe and acts as poetry editor for the Pushcart and Utne prize-winning Kyoto Journal. Former Regional Director of the Poetry Society of America final judge for PEN's Best of the West Award the Kate & Kingsley Tufts Poetry Awards and the international Laurel Prize Elena Karina Byrne is a freelance editor professor programming consultant & poetry stage manager for The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. Her five poetry collections include If This Makes You Nervous (Omnidawn Publishing 2021). Elena's work can be found in: The Pushcart Prize POETRY The Paris Review APR Poetry Daily Verse Daily The Oxford Review of Books BOMB and elsewhere. Martin Sercombe began making art films in the 1980s supported by Arts Council England and other funders. Over the years he has worked extensively with other artists and composers on work that explores the boundaries between poetry animation music and performance art. His video production company Media Projects forms partnerships with community groups and institutions to produce short films exploring heritage the arts and social issues. https:// martinsercombe.com/ Thom Conroy co-wrote the script for the film Night is Paper with Martin Sercombe during Martin's residency as the Massey-Palmerston North visiting artist in 2022. Thom is the author of the novels The Salted Air and The Naturalist (Penguin Random House) and the editor of the essay collection Home (Massey University Press). His short fiction widely published in New Zealand and the US has been recognised by Best American Short Stories and received other awards including the Katherine Ann Porter Prize in Fiction. He is a senior lecturer in Creative Writing at Massey University and the Edi- tor-in-Chief of the journal Headland. https://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/expertise/profile.cfm?stref=552930 Pam Falkenberg and Jack Cochran met in graduate school and made films together when they were young. Jack was part of the Iowa Creative Writing Workshop (and has written poetry all his life) and was working on a PhD in film studies when he left to pursue a career as a pro- fessional cinematographer in Los Angeles and London. Meanwhile Pam stayed in school got her PhD and went on to become a film professor and experimental filmmaker but eventually dropped out to work in visual display. They reconnected some thirty years later and formed Outlier Moving Pictures honouring their new name by making technically innovative and po- etic films about life love landscapes social justice and the environment. https://www.outlier- movingpictures.com Csilla Toldy is a writer and translator from Hungary. Her writing has appeared in literary mag- azines and anthologies and in book form in three poetry pamphlets: Red Roots - Orange Sky (2013) The Emigrant Woman's Tale (2015) and Vertical Montage (2018) as short fiction in Angel Fur and other stories (2019) and as a novel with the title Bed Table Door (2023). Csilla creates film poems as a visual artist. Her award-winning work has been screened at international festivals. www.csillatoldy.co.uk Finn Harvor is an award-winning artist writer musician and filmmaker. He has articles in many journals including the Brooklyn Rail and Canadian Notes and Queries. He has presented to academic conferences in: Oxford Bath Liverpool Berlin Seoul Osaka Bologna Madrid Hel- sinki and elsewhere. He has also been selected by festivals in: Korea Ireland the UK the US Canada Mexico China Kazakhstan Australia Greece Pakistan Serbia Portugal Italy Ger- many Ukraine India and elsewhere. 'I'm particularly interested in the following themes: nature and the anthropocene addiction and family dynamics (my late brother's story) technology and contemporary war and the nature of love. I usually make videopoems that I term authorial movies; these are movies in which one person creates - authors - all elements of the movie.' https://bridgetextpress.weebly.com/ Javier Robledo is an Argentinian writer performer visual poet and the founder and director of VideoBardo International Video Poetry Archive and Festival. Originating in 1996 it is the oldest active festival in the world of its genre and has shown work in 21 countries. He has made numerous video poems and exhibited and performed in numerous festivals in Argentina and abroad. He was co-founder of Impa La Fabrica cultural city where he built and directed the Fabril Microcinema from 1999 to 2013 with poetry video and performance activities and Bardo a poetry magazine from 1996 to 2004. He has published six books of poetry and one of stories. He received the Clamor Brzeska Award from Vortice Argentina 1994 and the Editorial Poetry Award 3+1 25 years in 2018. Ed. Santillana included a visual poem of his in its manual for secondary students. https://videobardo.wixsite.com Beate Goerdes born in 1961 in Germany currently resides in Cologne. She studied Fine Arts at the FH Koeln from 1987 to 1992. Since 2006 her artistic activity has focused on the creation of video compositions with electroacoustic sounds. She has actively participated in numerous inter- national video exhibitions and festivals including: Collage on Screen - Kolaj Fest (New Orleans USA); INTERBIFEB International Portraiture Biennial (Tuzla Bosnia and Herzegovina); The Haibun Film Festival (Cincinnati Ohio USA); Zebra Poetry Film Festival (Berlin Germany); ALC Videoart Festival (Museum of Contemporary Art Alicante Spain); PROGR showroom (Bern Switzerland); Kasseler Dok Und Videofest (Kassel Germany); BOX Videoart Project Space (Milan Italy) and Tangentiale (Kunstlerforum Bonn Germany). www.beategoerdes.de Ian Gibbins is a poet video artist and electronic musician living in South Australia. His poetry has been widely published in Australia and overseas and includes four books two of which are collaborations with visual artists. His award-winning poetry videos video art and soundscapes have been exhibited to acclaim at festivals installations galleries and high-visibility public art displays around the world. Until he retired in 2014 Ian was an internationally recognised neu- roscientist and Professor of Anatomy at Flinders University South Australia having originally trained as a zoologist. www.iangibbins.com.au Judy Morris is a fine artist based in the Adelaide Hills of South Australia. She interprets the natural world in drawings that emphasise the contours and textures of animal and plant forms exploring their intricate beauty on the macroscopic and microscopic scale. One focus is the hu- man body with pencil and charcoal drawings of the human form interacting with the everyday world. Recently she has concentrated on contemporary botanical drawings in coloured pencil bringing attention to the wonders of plants and their importance in our natural environment. See https://www.judymorris.net.au/ Carlos Ramirez Kobra was born in Neza (MX) in 1984. Poet publicist and cultural manager he is coordinator of the PLACA Platform in Mexico managing cultural events such as the Chilan- go Andaluz Poetry Recital the Gabinete Salvaje or the Festival de los Barrios. His poems have been published in various magazines and anthologies in Mexico and Spain; in the plaquettes Los Salvajes de Ciudad AKA (Deleatur) and A word with a bullet name (Dos10 Studio digital) in the collection of poems Own Dream Code (Editorial Ultramarina C&D 2020) dios un pixel (Centro Cultural Digital 2022) and Visual Trance (Malviaje 2023). His audiovisual pieces have been selected by numerous festivals around the world. He has worked for 17 years with poetry projects that are in dialogue with other artistic expressions. https://carlosramirezkobra.com/ Penny Florence is an inter/cross/un/disciplinary artist and writer and a feminist materialist who struggles with 'isms'. She is based in West Cornwall where she exhibits digital poetry films and mixed installations especially but not exclusively as a member of the Newlyn Society of Artists (NSA). She has performed readings in various galleries in the UK and internationally the most visible of which include Tate Modern and Tate Britain. She has worked in universities while resisting the label 'academic' and her books articles and papers are fundamentally concerned with the forms and processes of thinking and their intersection with what we call art and media. Appointments include: Head of Research Programmes at The Slade School of Fine Art (in- cluding leading the practice-based PhDs); inaugurating and running the first PhD programme at Falmouth University (also practice-based); and Chair of Humanities and Design Sciences at Art Center Pasadena USA. https://www.pennyflorence.com/ Dr Meriel Lland is an ecopoet author photographer artist and film-poet. Until recently she was Creative Writing Programme lead at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has worked with BBC Wildlife RSPB Birds National Geographic Birdwatching magazine and the Natural History Museum. Meriel investigates biophilia ecology and wellbeing encouraging commu- nities to reconnect and care for the planet. Her work has been exhibited internationally at: ZEBRA Berlin; Cyclop Kyiv; Liberated Words Arnolfini Bristol and Bath Encounters Short Film Festival Bristol; REELpoetry Houston; art en nature en art Galerie du Chateau Sainte- Croix-de-Mareuil Dordogne France and many others. She is co-author of 18 books translated into 16 languages including the Nature Explorer Guide for Kids (QED Publishing) the Wildlife Watcher Guide (Firefly Books) the Children's Encyclopedia of Animals (Arcturus) and Animal Talk (DK Publishing). www.meriellland.co.uk Ana Pantic is a poet playwright novelist and poetry filmmaker from Belgrade Serbia. She grad- uated from Belgrade University Faculty of Philology and was an actor for ten years in an in- dependent theatre group. Her poetry films have been presented and awarded at film festivals worldwide. She is an active performer at poetry events in Belgrade including slam poetry spo- ken word and poetry performance. Her poems were published in the first Serbian Collection of Slam Poetry Tebi u lice as well as in several regional (former Yugoslavia) anthologies. She is interested in researching versatile modes of expressing poetry and believes that poetry film - as a challenging form intertwining literary and visual arts - opens a wide space for experimenting and expanding artistic boundaries. She paints and draws 'when she lacks words'. https://you- tube.com/@anapantic5289?si=Jxor4b4Ejot7Q0IV Artist Ana Segovia (b: 1991) lives and works in Mexico City and has been defined as one of the leading artists of their generation. Through his bold and brilliant figurative paintings he exudes an extraordinary confidence with colour using it to confront patriarchal culture or 'archetypes of Mexicanness mexicanidad' head on.