Film + Art There is a forthcoming exhibition at Fjuk Art Centre in Husavik (Iceland). Zata Kitowski will present visual, verbal, aural, written, and moving image artworks. Do pop in if you happen to be passing! 12 - 13 February 2015 The residency continues until the end of February: http://www.poetryfilm.org/iceland PoetryFilm at CCCB Barcelona PoetryFilm will present 2 programmes at CCCB Barcelona on Thursday 19 and Friday 20 March 2015. Two Artworks by Zata Exhibited at Tate Britain Two artworks, the poem Full Stop, and the Morse Code audio of the poem, were broadcast at Tate Britain on 23-24 January 2015 as part of the RadioCity exhibition. The printed concrete poem was also displayed. Thank you to the RadioCity team and to everyone who attended. Zata Awarded Artist Residency in Denmark, June/August 2015 Zata Kitowski has been awarded an Artist Residency in Hvide Sande in Denmark. The residency will take place in June (4 weeks) and August 2015 (2 weeks). The theme is "Freedom". Send & Receive: Poetry, Film & Technology in the 21st Century Documentation from the Send & Receive symposium on Thursday 5 February 2015 will be available shortly. The symposium was part of the Type Motion exhibition. The symposium was organised by FACT, in association with the University of Liverpool, PoetryFilm and The Poetry Society, and featured presentations from George Szirtes (poet and translator), Deryn Rees Jones (Poet and Director of Centre for New and International Writing), Zata Kitowski (Director of PoetryFilm), Marco Bertamini (Visual Perception Labs UoL), Suzie Hanna (Animator and Professor of Animation Education) and Jason Nelson (hypermedia poet and artist, Australia). Pararchive and The PoetryFilm Archive: AHRC-funded conference at Leeds University Friday 27 March 2015 – Saturday 28 March 2015 A paper titled The PoetryFilm Archive 2002-2015 will feature at the Pararchive conference. This AHRC-funded conference and community showcase marks the climax of an eighteen-month multidisciplinary research project entitled Pararchive: Open Access Community Storytelling and the Digital Archive. The project is based at the School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds and seeks to build new interactive environments that explore issues of ownership, public and institutional relationships and provide tools for collaborative community research and creative expression using digital heritage resources. Many thanks to Daniel Mutibwa and the Pararchive team. PoetryFilm Submissions PoetryFilm is a continuous project and submissions are ongoing throughout the year. Click here for more details About PoetryFilm Zata Kitowski is the director of PoetryFilm, a research art project founded in 2002. PoetryFilm explores semiotics and meaning-making within the poetry film artform, celebrating experimental poetry films and text/image/sound artworks. Since 2002, PoetryFilm has produced over 60 events at cinemas, galleries, festivals and academic institutions featuring poetry films, live performances and talks. Venues include Tate Britain, The ICA, Southbank Centre, Cannes Film Festival, CCCB Barcelona, FACT Liverpool, O Miami, Curzon Cinemas, The Royal College of Art. Curated PoetryFilm screening programmes are available to book and can be tailored to specific themes. Zata is available to present talks about the PoetryFilm project, and about the poetry film artform, at festivals, conferences and academic institutions, and is also available to judge competition material. PoetryFilm is supported by Arts Council England and is an accredited member of Film Hub London, part of the BFI Audience Network. PoetryFilm holds a trademark awarded by the IPO (Intellectual Property Office). “A great event – one of the most interesting and invigorating I have been to this year!” - Arts Council England, 2014 “The cult PoetryFilm night is the only UK platform for the creative but very much un-mined field of poetry film. The PoetryFilm movement led by Zata Kitowski is forging new cinematic expressions: an innovative cinema of poetry, and a language of poetry film.” - Genesis Cinema, July 2005 “Founded by artist Zata Kitowski over a decade ago, the PoetryFilm art project continues to play with the avant-garde.” - AQNB magazine, 2014 “Zata Kitowski’s regular London screenings have become something of a cult attraction to independent film-buffs and poetry-fans alike.” - Battersea Arts Centre, May 2005 Best regards, Zata Kitowski PoetryFilm Founder and Director info@poetryfilm.org +44 7974 836086 http://www.poetryfilm.org Twitter Facebook