Poetry Film Roundtable

Friday 7th June,  12 noon - 2pm, The Hypatia Trust, Chapel Street

For poetry film makers and all those interested.

Prize-winning poetry film-maker, poet, and theorist, director and editor Sarah Tremlett will lead this discussion looking at the process and practice of creating a poetry film; its component parts and the differences in approach. Films from the previous evening's screening will be highlighted and the filmmakers encouraged to take part in the discussion, as well as everyone attending. The event allows for brainstorming, valuable tips and sharing of ideas, as well as a Q&A.

Sarah Tremlett

Sarah Tremlett is a prize-winning poetry film-maker, poet and theorist and director and editor of Liberated Words online. Exhibitor and key speaker at Tom Konyves’ Poets with a Video Camera exhibition, Surrey, Vancouver (2022), she is a juror and curator at festivals; most recently Fotogenia, Women in Word & REELpoetry, and has given numerous talks, readings and screenings on the subject worldwide such as Vancouver & San Francisco, 2022. Her publication The Poetics of Poetry Film (Intellect Books UK, 2021) has been described as ‘‘A ground- breaking, encyclopaedic work, and an industry Bible’ https://www.intellectbooks.com/the-poetics-of-poetry-film 

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, and

inaugurated the Frame to Frames: Your Eyes Follow ekphrastic poetry film screening and prize, which she presented at FOTOGENIA, Mexico City, 2023. Published by Poem Film Editions through Liberated Words, the accompanying innovative bilingual publication Frame to Frames: Your Eyes Follow includes the poems, stills and artists’ details, along with a QR link to all the films in the screening.

More on Sarah here: www.sarahtremlett.com and www.liberatedwords.com

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