When at a Certain Party in NYC
For the latest video installment from Motionpoems, Amy Schmitt designed and animated Erin Belieu’s poem “When at a Certain Party in NYC.” It’s absolutely brilliant!
Thanks to Poets & Writers, I just discovered Motionpoems. What is a motionpoem? “It’s a new hybrid form: a short film (usually less than 3 minutes in length) that treats a great contemporary poem as a script. It’s a professionally produced, fully imagined, HD experience designed to introduce new audiences to poetry’s unique thrills.”
OUR MISSION is to broaden the audience for poetry by turning great contemporary poems into short films for online, broadcast, and big-screen distribution. We introduce talented video artists to some of America’s best living writers, step aside, then make the resulting videos free to subscribers. Completed films go on to screen at film festivals, art cinemas, libraries, schools, bookstores, and elsewhere.
Visit the Motionpoem website to check out the lineup of poets and filmmakers for the 2012 season, view motionpoems from previous seasons, and even subscribe to receive a new motionpoem delivered to your inbox each month.
I’ve always been an avid reader of poetry, but I must say I’m hooked on motionpoems. And I want to live in a converted chocolate factory and have a “Lacanian soap dispenser in the kitchen that looks like an industrial age dildo.” Gonna have to get on that.
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My name is Angela Eloise and I am a freelance writer. I recently moved to Seattle because I wanted a better home base to support my creative goals. And my shaman told me to. Cloud of Chaos was born from my desire to dance with the absurdity of life, to create a space where I could write and share all of the gorgeous, fun, snarky deliciousness I find spinning around me every day. What does a spinning cloud of chaos have to do with writing? Everything, as it turns out.
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