Cinema Poetics

We shall study the poetics of cinema and how the video-poem can expand, deepen, rescue, extend our writing and writing practices. We'll watch a panoply of poem-films, video art, and "poetic" feature length films to discern their basic components of sound + text + motion, their principles of composition and editing techniques. Our texts will explore concepts of diaspora and memory, documentary poetics, footage and sound recordings from which students will assemble video poems or essays of their own. Students will need access to a video editing application such as iMovie, Adobe Premiere, Premiere Rush, Stop Motion Studios, DaVinci Resolve, Canva, for instance.