Video projects made in collaboration with poets and musicians.
Since 2020 I’ve made short, experimental and hopefully rich visually films, often these are collaborations with other poets and musicians.
The latest music video from the CD Sea of Dreams
Aftershock is a poetry film I made to accompany my poem of the same name. Aftershock is published in the inaugural issue of The Storms.
Iktsuarpok
This film was made in collaboration with the Cypriot poet Nora Nadjarian. Nora’s poem was a finalist in the 2021 Mslexia poetry competition. It was originally published in Mslexia Magazine in 2022.
Iktsuarpok is an Inuit word, meaning the impatient excitement for a visit that makes you look out the window countless times in the hope of seeing your guest arrive.
The film explores this sense of restless anticipation through images of clock hands, pendulums and the sounds of clocks ticking while a woman watches and waits at a window.
City is a setting of my poem by the composer and singer Simon Morecroft. It is one of fifteen tracks on our latest CD Sea Of Dreams. All songs can be found for streaming, downloading or ordering a CD on the Band Camp Website.
Collection In Ink.
Chaucer Cameron’s poem explores themes of ecology, exploitation as well as focusing on issues surrounding climate change, sex tourism, mental health and illness.
The film reflects the complex and interlocking nature of the poems themes. Images are multilayered often partially submerged under flood waters. In some flowers in ice are appear. An idea sparked by my Under Ice photographs.
Collaborations.
The Zone
Caleb Parkin’s poem The Zone is a high-octane take on the climate crisis, patriarchy and toxic overwork.
The treatment of the poem was developed by Caleb and Dutch filmmaker Helmie Stil. The result is a piece that moves at a relentless pace. Cityscapes and the natural world are overheated by our frantic consumer lives.
Small Marks In The Dust Of Time
Snow and Lament are settings to music of poems I have written. They and fourteen other poems/songs can be found on the Bandcamp website
The poems were originally inspired by instrumental versions of traditional Norwegian songs. These were recorded by the renowned Norwegian musicians Ånon Egeland and Mikael Marin and released on their album Sorpesoll
garden
garden was made during the first Covid lockdown in the UK. Working remotely Caleb and I developed a series of images about a mysterious and apparently endless length of pipe. This pipe was discovered under Caleb’s lawn.
cherpitel
12 Sep 2022veddy grande editing 🙂
mariusgrose
13 Sep 2022Thank you