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What Happens when Art inspires other Art Forms
Frame to Frames : Your Eyes Follow / Cuadro a Cuadros : Tus Ojos Siguen is a bilingual poetry anthology of seventeen poems based on paintings (ekphrastic poems). The poems have also been made into films which are online and link to the book via a QR code. Ekphrastic poems have existed as descriptions of vivid detail since ancient Greece, later relating specifically to works of art, and now with a much wider interpretation. This exciting and innovative publication by the leading authority in the field, is the first of its kind to not only identify the genre of ekphrastic poetry films, but also as poems in translation and as transmedia.
Frame to Frames begins with an introduction from Sarah Tremlett (Poem Film Editions Managing Director) and other international leaders in the field, such as Csilla Toldy (Poem Film Editions Director) Janee Baugher, Mary McDonald, Colm Scully, Penny Florence, Carlos Ramirez Kobra and Meriel Lland (winner of the poetry film prize). The book includes the poems in both English and Spanish (on opposite pages) with beautiful colour images from the films, and fascinating artists' statements about their methods and thought processes. All the films were also submitted for the Frame to Frames : Your Eyes Follow ekphrastic poetry film prize. Complete biographies are available at the end of the book.
The painting on the cover Huapango Torero is by non-binary Mexican artist Ana Segovia, and has inspired more than half the artists. It is a revision of a painting of a boy entering a bull's field at night holding a cloth to practice bullfighting (a traditional pastime). In this painting he offers a flower, and the painting's message is a call to end animal cruelty and the barbarism of bullfighting and associated machismo.
Frame to Frames : Your Eyes Follow not only shows how different artists interpret the same painting, it allows readers to compare two verbal languages and acts as a central hub between the painting and the films (visual languages). Often when watching poetry films a line might pass us by. Here the reader can pause, reflect upon a line, and return to the poems themselves before moving on. In this book skilled poetry filmmakers display an amazing array of imaginations, demonstrating creativity at its most personal and political.
To paraphrase poet Patricia Killelea: 'In responding to a work of art you are freed from your usual artistic conventions and find yourself taken on a journey that extends and enriches your practice'.
The contributors are from: America, Argentina, Australia, Canada, England, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand, and Serbia.
Patricia Killelea, US; Tova Beck Friedman, US; Alejandro Thornton, AR; Colm Scully, IRL; Janet Lees, UK (Lois P Jones and Elena K Byrne, US); Martin Sercombe, (Thom Conroy) NZ; Pamela Falkenberg & Jack Cochran, US; Csilla Toldy, HU, IRL; Finn Harvor, CA; Javier Robledo, AR; Beate Gordes, DE; lan Gibbins, (Judy Morris); Carlos Ramirez Kobra, MX; Penny Florence, UK; Meriel Lland, UK; Ana Pantic, RS;
Contents
CONTENTS / EL CONTENIDO
Acknowledgements/ Agradecimientos
Introduction/ Introduccion
Sarah Tremlett, Csilla Toldy, Janee J. Baugher
Poems & Poetry Film Synopses
Poemas Y Sinopsis De Los Video Poemas
A New History / Una nueva historia - Patricia Killelea
The Fall of Lilith / La caida de Lilith - Tova Beck-Friedman
Resist/Exist, Resistir/Existir - Alejandro Thornton
Interior Group Portrait of the Penrose family /
Retrato interior de grupo de la familia Penrose - Colm Scully
Self Portrait with a Line from Lorca / Autorretrato con una cita de Lorca
Janet Lees (filmmaker/cineasta) Lois P. Jones, Elena K. Byrne (poets/poetisas)
Night is Paper / La noche es papel
Martin Sercombe (filmmaker, poet/cineasta, poeta) Thom Conroy (poet/poeta)
Huapango Torero / Huapango Torero - Jack Cochran & Pamela Falkenberg
This Yard / Este patio - Csilla Toldy
After Huapango Torero / Segun el cuadro Huapango Torero - Finn Harvor
And I go up the stairs / Y subo las escaleras - Javier Robledo
Huapango Torero / Huapango Torero - Beate Goerdes
Sensurious / Sensoriales - Ian Gibbins (poet, filmmaker/poeta, cineasta)
Judy Morris (artist, artista)
Crystal Flower / Flor de cristal - Carlos Ramirez Kobra
It ain't wot it seems / No es lo que parece - Penny Florence
A Love Spell Cast In Petals / Un hechizo de amor hecho con petalos - Meriel Lland
Seme / The Seed (La semilla) - Ana Pantic
Bull / Toro - Sarah Tremlett
Contributors' Biographies /
Biografias de los colaboradores
