Swoon

LAST POST... All my activities,blogposts and new works can be seen at my new site/blog: http://swoon-videopoetry.com/

http://swoon-bildos.blogspot.com/2013/09/visit-me-at-me-new-home-httpswoon.html

A few months ago I got in touch with Ray Hsu . We decided on a collaboration early in our correspondence. Ray had just sent me some of his words when in the US this happened; The events made ...

http://swoon-bildos.blogspot.com/2013/09/even-though-im-broken-hearted-my-faith.html

It's going to be a busy fall. October 2013 turns out to be a month packed with festivals, screenings, showcases and workshops... A quick run-through: 03/10/2013: LIBERATED WORDS Liberated ...

http://swoon-bildos.blogspot.com/2013/08/october-2013-festivals-selections.html

A new collaboration. Always a joy to look out for. This one came through Dave Bonta . On his literary blog Via Negativa ,  Luisa A Igloria has been writing a poem a day since November 2010, ...

http://swoon-bildos.blogspot.com/2013/08/mortal-ghazal.html

Earlier this year I had the chance to show my poetry shortfilm 'Cirkel/Circle' at the Felix Poetry Festival in Antwerp. Organised by Antwerpen Boekenstad , the festival does not only showcase ...

http://swoon-bildos.blogspot.com/2013/08/kijk-hoe-we-onszelf-aanvullen-uite-cum.html

This year it's Filmpoem's first festival. Submissions ended and the organisers are in their own words 'quite surprised at the variation in quality of the submissions. This is a new genre, t...

http://swoon-bildos.blogspot.com/2013/07/a-westray-prayer.html

Tsead Bruinja is a poet from The Netherlands. He lives in Amsterdam, but is rooted in Fryslân . He writes in different languages. I met him at the last Stanza festival (Thanks to Michaël V...

http://swoon-bildos.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-children-have-lit-fire.html

This month I will be one of the featured artists on the new online magazine 'Awkword Paper Cut' A video I made for Meg Tuite featured in their inaugural issue. For this month Michael Dickes (d...

http://swoon-bildos.blogspot.com/2013/07/awkword-paper-cut-she-saw-other-pieces.html

A conversation: S: "And now for something completely different... I'm working on a new video; The shareholders meeting (music: Images will come from this video: http://archive.org/details...

http://swoon-bildos.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-crowning-of-jesters.html

Paul Perry and I have put our forces together once before . That combination of his words and thoughts with my sounds and images seemed to hit the right chords here and there. Drift (For two N...

http://swoon-bildos.blogspot.com/2013/06/river-of-light.html

Sometimes I collect images, keep them with me until the right poem comes along. The same with certain tracks I create. 'And So They Live' (John Ferno, Julian Roffman, 1940) is a piece of archiv...

http://swoon-bildos.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-pioneer-wife-speaks-in-tongues.html

If there's one thing I really like about the internet, it got to be the possibility and speed in how we can 'meet' and collaborate with people everywhere. Throught the fiber I 'met' Jaromír Ty...

http://swoon-bildos.blogspot.com/2013/05/ve-znaku-in-sign-jaromir-typlt.html

A confession. I love the new issue on Qarrtsiluni ; Animals in the City . The variety is great (credit to the editors) and the quality (as always on Qarrtsiluni) really good. So for the 11th ...

http://swoon-bildos.blogspot.com/2013/05/witness-lissa-kiernan.html

The Bristol Poetry festival has a nice spot for videopoetry: Liberated Words . Their open call this year has 2 separate categories. One of them is "Four by Four" Videopoems of three minutes or...

http://swoon-bildos.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-shipwrights-love-song-jo-bell.html

Tsead Bruinja is a poet from The Netherlands. He lives in Amsterdam, but is rooted in Fryslân . He writes in different languages. I met him at the last Stanza festival (Thanks to Michaël V...

http://swoon-bildos.blogspot.com/2013/05/de-bern-ha-it-fjoer-oanstutsen-tsead.html

Awkword Paper Cut is a brand new online magazine. Meg Tuite a class A writer and editor (for Connotation Press , The Santa Fe Literary Review and Used Furniture Review .) For Awkword Paper C...

http://swoon-bildos.blogspot.com/2013/05/im-sorry-but-ive-witnessed-whats-under.html

This is the third music video for Reiziger After making one for Shy Reptile and Bended Trees earlier this year, it was now time for the titlesong of their album 'KODIAK STATION' (check out ...

http://swoon-bildos.blogspot.com/2013/04/kodiak-station.html

Dave Bonta is not only the driving force behind the great source that is Moving Poems . Dave is also a writer, poet and multi blogger. A few weeks ago he published 'TWELVE SIMPLE SONGS'   (ch...

http://swoon-bildos.blogspot.com/2013/04/12-simple-songs.html

Earlier this year Dutch poet Maartje Smits (who is one of the poets on the Deus Ex Machina album 'Uitgesproken ') asked me if I was interested in a collaboration for the online magazine 'hard//...

http://swoon-bildos.blogspot.com/2013/03/het-schampen-van-lichtgewicht-kerels.html

A special treat and a fun project. A while back Alastair Cook approached me with a question to do 'a felix' (That's what we call making each a video for the same poem in a different languag...

http://swoon-bildos.blogspot.com/2013/03/born-to-die.html

In the beginning of 2012 Michaël Vandebril released his first poetry collection. A collection in both (main)  languages of our country; Dutch and French. Het vertrek van Maeterlinck / L'é...

http://swoon-bildos.blogspot.com/2013/03/la-vigie.html

More than a year ago I was looking for the next step in the evolution of my videopoetry. I made tryptichs , a videopoem chapbook ... it seemed natural that more poems into one poetry film woul...

http://swoon-bildos.blogspot.com/2013/02/cirkelcircle.html

Last year the band Reiziger asked me to make a few music video's. Their album 'Kodiak Station' and the first single 'Bended Trees' were already released and have received good reviews in t...

http://swoon-bildos.blogspot.com/2013/02/shy-reptile-by-reiziger.html

For poetry day & week (here in Belgium & The Netherlands) Johan de Boose wrote a poem. The 'Provincie Oost-Vlaanderen ' and 'Het Poëziecentrum ' gave me a commission to make a videopoem for i...

http://swoon-bildos.blogspot.com/2013/01/day-is-done.html

Within a few weeks I will be attending the fifth anniversary event by LPS. London Poetry Systems is, in their own words, an open cross-media poetry organisation committed to showcasing poetry ...

http://swoon-bildos.blogspot.com/2013/01/another-slow-day.html