Image Text Interval: Experiments in Film and Poetry

Our explorations in this interdisciplinary creative workshop will center around the interplay of image and text in film and video. We will tend to the space between words, between images, the movements from one to another, what’s alive in the cracks. How might poetic devices be transposed to image sequences in film? How can film theory inspire our writing? What are the myriad ways text, voice and the moving image can layer and entwine? This project-based workshop is for students interested in interdisciplinary practices that live and migrate between poetry and the moving image. Together we will consider essay films, cinepoetry, video art, and neo-benshi performance. We will learn about filmmakers, artists and writers who engage creatively with poetics, text and voice in moving image works such as Sky Hopinka, Suneil Sanzgiri, Mona Hatoum, Trinh T Minh-ha, Jordan Lord, Wu Tsang, and Douglas Kearney.