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A Fire in Ice by Marly Youmans

Paul Digby designed and created this video, which I am slotting into the “concrete poetry” category (even though the text is in rhyming couplets) on the strength of its last few seconds, which to me...

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Poem by Alan Dugan

A videopoem about a poem called “poem” (from the collection Cross Section 1947): Stephen Ausherman brings a fresh approach to the genre of concrete videopoetry here. According to the note on Vimeo,...

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Abecedario Poético / Found Footage Mix by Raúl Calderón Gordillo and Mariano...

Must be expanded to full screen. Mariano Rentería Garnica made the film in collaboration with his fellow Mexican artist Raúl Calderón Gordillo, who supplied the text. The Spanish/English title as...

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Lenora de Barros: the challenge of working with sound in a society of images

Lenora de Barros is a genre-crosser, a concrete poet and visual artist also working in film and audio. I was impressed that someone with such a strong background in the visual aspect of poetry would...

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IO game over by Sergio Garau

This videopoem by Angelo Saccu, performed by Sergio Garau to music by Antonio Marra, betrays influences from all over: it’s equal parts concert video, sound poem and concrete/kinetic-text poem. I ran...

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innocent beat by Martha McCollough

An interesting kinetic-text animation by Martha McCollough, a painter and animator from Boston, who notes in the description that it it is “Based on a page from my erasure project Grey Vacation. The...

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Written in My Dream by William Carlos Williams

This kinetic text poetry animation by Nikolaus Lesnik uses a reading by Allen Ginsberg.

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The Polish Language by Alice Lyons

This is just about the most inventive typographic animation I’ve even seen — a gorgeous and moving tribute to the power of Polish poetry by American-Irish poet and artist Alice Lyons and Irish artist...

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Words by VIV G

This kintetic text animation by VIV G (Vivian Giourousis) definitely qualifies as a concrete poem.

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Mesostic (“Dancer/Suc/Hands…”) by John Cage

A compelling animation of a visual poem, one of John Cages’s mesostics, by Federica Cristiani. She writes: In this video I try to create a perfect balance between music and video. The letters appear...

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Todos esos momentos se perderan (All these moments will be lost in time) by Dier

In celebration of World Poetry Day, here’s a video which may not fit some people’s idea of a poem at all — but which, to my way of thinking, represents the purest form of videopoetry. In fact, it was...

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Liberté by Maciej Piatek

A concrete videopoem by the UK-based Polish video artist Maciej Piatek that alludes to a text by Paul Eluard and an historic, public use of that text, as the write-up on Vimeo explains: The film was...

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when by Ottar Ormstad

Experimental poetry can sometimes seem excessively cerebral and lacking in emotion, but Norwegian visual poet Ottar Ormstad escapes that trap here with the help of terrific still images and a...

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LONG RONG SONG by Ottar Ormstad

The Norwegian concrete poet Ottar Ormstad and Russian composer Taras Mashtalir form the duo OTTARAS, currently looking for live performance venues. This video was produced in collaboration with...

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Navn Nome Name by OTTERAS

Sound poetry and concrete poetry elude most efforts at translation — except for translation into videopoetry, as in this new release from Ottar Ormstad, Taras Mashtalir and Alexander Vojjov. I’m sure...

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White Sound by bpNichol

This is an excerpt from The Complete Works, a 41-minute film directed and animated by Justin Stephenson based on the work of the late Canadian avant-garde poet bpNichol. Here, a poet-friend of...

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Poemas Videográficos / Videographic Poems by Fernando Tavares Pereira

* * * Brazilian poet Fernando Tavares Pereira made these fascinating animated text videos with the help of Rafael Veggi (computer graphics, sound). For those of us who don’t know Portuguese, he was...

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O by Alejandro Thornton

This videopoema by the Argentine artist and writer Alejandro Thornton is — as Tom Konyves puts it in a new essay in Poetryfilmkanal — a “silent, minimalist, prototypical ‘concrete poem'”. Konyves’...

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Make America Great Again (Slogan) by David Hahn

A video collage by multi-media artist, Donna Kuhn, set to composer David Hahn‘s piece, “Make America Great Again”, addressing the contemporary political and cultural landscape of the USA, while...

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Plasticpoems by Fiona Tinwei Lam

A brilliant concrete videopoem directed and produced by Canadian poet Fiona Tinwei Lam with animation by Nhat Truong and sound design by Tinjun Niu. The Vimeo description notes that This short...

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