I’ve finally managed to get two films into festivals which
are happening over the next few weeks, after several years of half-hearted
attempts. It helps that they’re poetry films, which is quite a niche area, and
that the festivals are both new ventures. Thus, my oblique take on Jo Bell’s
poem “
The Shipwright’s Love Song”, will
be screened during the
Liberated Words Poetry
Film Festival, which is part of the
2013
Bristol Poetry Festival – my response to a challenge to put images to one
of four poems. And I’ve just learned that my visualisation of Wallace Stevens’
modernist piece “
Lulu Gay”, has been
shortlisted for the
Ó Bhéal
International Poetry-Film Competition at the
Indie Cork Festival of Independent Cinema 2013. Which is very
lovely. Both free to enter, as well, which is a bonus – a lesson one learns the
hard way.
The only other excitement in my life has been the
over-reaction of a playwright to my review of his play. This took the form of a
number of immoderate posts on Twitter. It wasn’t even a bad review; it simply
suggested that his play was “solid” rather than a work of life-changing genius,
as other reviewers have argued. All the more peculiar given that this
particular author has been brutally critical of his fellow theatricals in the
past.
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