This page features poetry films and music videos. More poetry films can be found at Poetry Film Live
Burial Rites is a prose poem that explores ideas of mortality, renewal, bones and gardens. The poem is published in issue forty eight of Dream Catcher magazine
Aftershock is a poetry film I made to accompany my poem of the same name. The film is informed by traumatic events such as the Covid19 pandemic, climate change and Brexit.
The poem was published in the inaugural issue of The Storms.
Iktsuarpok 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.
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.
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 filmaker 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.
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.
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.
Shadow Show is the latest music video from the CD Sea Of Dreams. A collaboration between Marius Grose and Simon Morecroft. All tracks are stream-able from the bandcamp website.
City Is from the CD Sea Of Dreams. All tracks can be streamed from the bandcamp website
Snow is from the CD Small Marks In The Dust Of Time. All tracks can be streamed from the bandcamp website.
Lament is from the CD Small Marks In The Dust Of Time. All tracks can be streamed from the bandcamp website.
