DIE KUNST DES MINIMALISMUS. ESSAY

Über die Bedeutung von Stimmführung und Timbre im Poetry Film.

Ten atypical poetry films

Poesiefilme im historischen Kontext

Die Anfänge in den 20er Jahren

Essay von Sigrun Höllrigl, Juli 2011

Kategorien des Poetry Films

Wissenschaftlicher Essay von Sigrun Höllrigl, Juli 2011

As director of the Vienna Art Visuals & Poetry Film Festival, I became captivated by the fascination of the poetry film, because beyond language, intermedia fields of reference to the visual arts and music are emerging. Several levels of perception at the same time are both a fascination and a challenge. A successful poetry film creates a balance between text, image and music. In the coordination this is a very sensitive process. If this balance succeeds, the films reach a timeless dimension through language and leave their viewers with the desire to see the film again.

Tom Konyves, University of the fraser valley, canada

VOM FILMPOEM ZUM VIDEOPOEM: DIE VERWANDLUNG DER POESIE IM ZEITALTER DES BILDSCHIRMS

Film competition Rainer Maria Rilke

After the success 2014 the festival organizers decided to go for another film competition based on a classical poem. The Austro-Hungarian poet Rainer Maria Rilke and his love poem "An Lou Andre-Salome" written in 1911 were chosen in 2017. Lou Salomé got the poem in a letter from Rilke many years after they split.