Frame to Frames : Your Eyes Follow II: ekphrastic poetry + films

What Happens when Art inspires other Art Forms Frame to Frames : Your Eyes Follow / Cuadro a Cuadros : Tus Ojos Siguen is a bilingual poetry anthology of seventeen poems based on paintings (ekphrastic poems). The poems have also been made into films which are online and link to the book via a QR code. Ekphrastic poems have existed as descriptions of vivid detail since ancient Greece, later relating specifically to works of art, and now with a much wider interpretation. This exciting and innovative publication by the leading authority in the field, is the first of its kind to not only identify the genre of ekphrastic poetry films, but also as poems in translation and as transmedia. Frame to Frames begins with an introduction from Sarah Tremlett (Poem Film Editions Managing Director) and other international leaders in the field, such as Csilla Toldy (Poem Film Editions Director) Janee Baugher, Mary McDonald, Colm Scully, Penny Florence, Carlos Ramirez Kobra and Meriel Lland (winner of the poetry film prize). The book includes the poems in both English and Spanish (on opposite pages) with beautiful colour images from the films, and fascinating artists' statements about their methods and thought processes. All the films were also submitted for the Frame to Frames : Your Eyes Follow ekphrastic poetry film prize. Complete biographies are available at the end of the book. The painting on the cover Huapango Torero is by non-binary Mexican artist Ana Segovia, and has inspired more than half the artists. It is a revision of a painting of a boy entering a bull's field at night holding a cloth to practice bullfighting (a traditional pastime). In this painting he offers a flower, and the painting's message is a call to end animal cruelty and the barbarism of bullfighting and associated machismo. Frame to Frames : Your Eyes Follow not only shows how different artists interpret the same painting, it allows readers to compare two verbal languages and acts as a central hub between the painting and the films (visual languages). Often when watching poetry films a line might pass us by. Here the reader can pause, reflect upon a line, and return to the poems themselves before moving on. In this book skilled poetry filmmakers display an amazing array of imaginations, demonstrating creativity at its most personal and political. To paraphrase poet Patricia Killelea: 'In responding to a work of art you are freed from your usual artistic conventions and find yourself taken on a journey that extends and enriches your practice'. The contributors are from: America, Argentina, Australia, Canada, England, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand, and Serbia. Patricia Killelea, US; Tova Beck Friedman, US; Alejandro Thornton, AR; Colm Scully, IRL; Janet Lees, UK (Lois P Jones and Elena K Byrne, US); Martin Sercombe, (Thom Conroy) NZ; Pamela Falkenberg & Jack Cochran, US; Csilla Toldy, HU, IRL; Finn Harvor, CA; Javier Robledo, AR; Beate Gordes, DE; lan Gibbins, (Judy Morris); Carlos Ramirez Kobra, MX; Penny Florence, UK; Meriel Lland, UK; Ana Pantic, RS;

Table of Contents:
CONTENTS / EL CONTENIDO Acknowledgements/ Agradecimientos Introduction/ Introduccion Sarah Tremlett, Csilla Toldy, Janee J. Baugher Poems & Poetry Film Synopses Poemas Y Sinopsis De Los Video Poemas A New History / Una nueva historia - Patricia Killelea The Fall of Lilith / La caida de Lilith - Tova Beck-Friedman Resist/Exist, Resistir/Existir - Alejandro Thornton Interior Group Portrait of the Penrose family / Retrato interior de grupo de la familia Penrose - Colm Scully Self Portrait with a Line from Lorca / Autorretrato con una cita de Lorca Janet Lees (filmmaker/cineasta) Lois P. Jones, Elena K. Byrne (poets/poetisas) Night is Paper / La noche es papel Martin Sercombe (filmmaker, poet/cineasta, poeta) Thom Conroy (poet/poeta) Huapango Torero / Huapango Torero - Jack Cochran & Pamela Falkenberg This Yard / Este patio - Csilla Toldy After Huapango Torero / Segun el cuadro Huapango Torero - Finn Harvor And I go up the stairs / Y subo las escaleras - Javier Robledo Huapango Torero / Huapango Torero - Beate Goerdes Sensurious / Sensoriales - Ian Gibbins (poet, filmmaker/poeta, cineasta) Judy Morris (artist, artista) Crystal Flower / Flor de cristal - Carlos Ramirez Kobra It ain't wot it seems / No es lo que parece - Penny Florence A Love Spell Cast In Petals / Un hechizo de amor hecho con petalos - Meriel Lland Seme / The Seed (La semilla) - Ana Pantic Bull / Toro - Sarah Tremlett Contributors' Biographies / Biografias de los colaboradores

About the Author :
Sarah Tremlett MPhil, FRSA is a British prize-winning poetry film-maker, poet, artist and theorist and director and editor of Liberated Words online. She co-ran Liberated Words poetry film festival from 2012-16 with poet Lucy English. Exhibitor and key speaker at Tom Konyves' Poets with a Video Camera exhibition, Surrey, Vancouver (2022), she is a leading speaker, juror and curator at festivals; most recently FOTOGENIA, Mexico City; Women in Word, Penzance, UK and REELpoetry, Houston, USA, with poetry readings in Vancouver & San Francisco, 2022. Her publication The Poetics of Poetry Film https://www.intellectbooks.com/the-poetics-of-poetry-film (Intellect Books, 2021) has been described as 'A ground-breaking, encyclopaedic work, and the industry Bible' and is held in over 650 university libraries worldwide. With poetry filmmaker Csilla Toldy as a director, she is managing director of Poem Film Editions publishing books across poetry, images and poetry film. The first publication is Frame to Frames : Your Eyes Follow a bilingual, transmedia poetry book with colour images and a QR link to 17 poetry films. She also has a chapter on 'Voice and New Narrative frameworks' in Intermedial Art Practices as Cultural Resilience (Routledge, 2024). Sarah runs a family history poetry film project, alongside her own ongoing family history collection TREE. www.sarahtremlett.com. Her forthcoming commissioned collection Unexhibited (2025), with narrative poems and early paintings is available in 2025. It is about persona psychology, life on the edge and a bohemian past identity, surviving as an artist and model. CONTRIBUTORS BIOGRAPHIES Janee J. Baugher, MFA is the author of the only craft book of its kind, The Ekphrastic Writer: Cre- ating Art-Influenced Poetry, Fiction and Nonfiction, as well as two ekphrastic poetry collections, Cooerdinates of Yes and The Body's Physics. As a collaborator, she has had poems adapted for the stage and set to music at Interlochen Center for the Arts (Michigan), University of Cincinnati, Contemporary Dance Theatre (Ohio), Dance Now! Ensemble (Florida), Otterbein University, and University of North Carolina-Pembroke, to name a few. Baugher is an assistant editor at Boulevard magazine (Missouri), and she's been a featured poet on Seattle Channel TV and at the Library of Congress. www.JaneeBaugher.com Mary McDonald is a Canadian writer and multimedia artist whose work explores words through sound, image, and movement. McDonald is passionate about creating with digital technology, bringing text and multimedia art directly into community, historic and natural spaces through AR (augmented reality). McDonald's multidisciplinary practice encompasses text, photography, poetry film, music and immersive sound, interactive AR (augmented reality) installations, and community participa- tory arts projects. Her poetry films and AR installations have been exhibited widely in Canada and internationally. McDonald's poetry film and AR installation, On the Margin of History, was awarded first prize in new media, performative and digital work, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, Canada. https://marymcdonald.ca Patricia Killelea is a writer and multimedia artist living in the rural Upper Peninsula of Michi- gan. Her poetry films have been selected & screened at Det Poetiske Fonoteque: Nature & Culture Poetry Film Festival and the O Bheal International Poetry-Film Competition, received Hon- orable Mention at the Midwest Video Poetry Fest and long-listed for the Rabbit Heart Poetry Film Festival. Patricia's films and essays on poetryfilm have been featured at FENCE, Poetry Film Live, Atticus Review, and Moving Poems. She was Poetry Editor at Passages North from 2015-2022 and recently became a Poetry Editor at FENCE. She is an Associate Professor of English at Northern Michigan University. www.patriciakillelea.net Tova Beck-Friedman's work is rooted in fine arts. After years of working in sculpture and sculp- tural installations she has come to embrace films and poetry, fusing poetry and moving images to create cine-poems. Her work has been shown in festivals, museums, galleries and on television including: The Poet's House, NYC; VideoBardo, Argentina; Drumshanbo, Ireland; O Bheal, Ireland (shortlisted); International Video Poetry Festival, Greece; The Film & Video Poetry Symposium, USA; Blissfest333, USA, REELpoetry, USA; International Poetry Film Festival of Thuringia, Germany; Fotogenia, Mexico. Her poems have been published in Whispers and Echoes magazine, Extinction Rebellion Creative Hub and Fevers of the Mind. Her poem 'Vertigo', is part of the Starry Night Anthology of The Ekphrastic Review. The poem 'Hair' is part of the Fevers of the Mind Poetry Anthology. http://tbfstudio.com Alejandro Thornton is an Argentinian artist, visual poet and Professor and researcher at the De- partment of Visual Arts of the National University of the Arts (U.N.A.). He has been published in numerous magazines and anthologies e.g. Traces of Argentine Visual Poetry (2014), Poeticas Oblicuas. Modes of Counterwriting and phonetic twists in experimental poetry 1956-2016 (2016), ...xyzA-Cdef... Anthology of Argentine Catalan Visual Poetry (2019), Proporcion Aurea (2023) and Visual Poetry. An Argentine and Brazilian anthology (2023). Recent publications include:Poemas Libres (Ireland, 2022); Aquiahoraotravoz together with JM Calleja (Ireland, 2021); Portraits of Solitude (2020); Abracadabra (2017)). In 2021 he won the III Paqui Jimenez Yepez International Visual Poetry Prize (Spain). https://alethornton.wixsite.com Colm Scully is a poet and poetry filmmaker from Cork, Ireland. His films have been shown internationally and he recently won The Deanna Tulley Multimedia Prize, 2022. He is curator at Drumshanbo Written Word Poetry Film Competition, and judge at O Bheal Winter Warmer Poetry Film Prize. His poems have been published in many journals including Poetry Ireland Review and The Friday Poem. You can learn more at www.colmscully.com. Janet Lees is a lens-based artist, poet and poetry filmmaker. She won the 2021 O Bheal Poet- ry-Film competition, and has been selected by such festivals as: ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival, the Aesthetica Art Prize, and Festival Fotogenia. In 2022 her work featured in the landmark exhibition Poets with a Video Camera : Videopoetry 1980-2020. Her art photography has been exhibited worldwide and her poetry widely published in journals and anthologies. Her two books are House of water, a collection of poems and art photographs, and A bag of sky, the win- ning collection in the Frosted Fire Firsts prize, hosted by the UK's Cheltenham Poetry Festival. https://janetlees.weebly.com/ Lois P. Jones' first poetry collection, Night Ladder was published by Glass Lyre Press and was a finalist for the Julie Suk Award. She is the winner of the 2023 Alpine Fellowship in poetry and previous winner of the Bristol Poetry Prize, the Tiferet Poetry Prize and the Lascaux Poetry Prize. Jones' work has been published or is forthcoming in the Academy of American Poets, Poetry Wales, Mslexia, Bridport Prize Anthology, Plume, Guernica Editions, Agenda and elsewhere. Since 2007 she has hosted KPFK's Poets' Cafe and acts as poetry editor for the Pushcart and Utne prize-winning Kyoto Journal. Former Regional Director of the Poetry Society of America, final judge for PEN's Best of the West Award, the Kate & Kingsley Tufts Poetry Awards, and the international Laurel Prize, Elena Karina Byrne is a freelance editor, professor, programming consultant & poetry stage manager for The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. Her five poetry collections include If This Makes You Nervous (Omnidawn Publishing, 2021). Elena's work can be found in: The Pushcart Prize, POETRY, The Paris Review, APR, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, The Oxford Review of Books, BOMB and elsewhere. Martin Sercombe began making art films in the 1980s, supported by Arts Council England and other funders. Over the years he has worked extensively with other artists and composers on work that explores the boundaries between poetry, animation, music and performance art. His video production company, Media Projects forms partnerships with community groups and institutions to produce short films exploring heritage, the arts and social issues. https:// martinsercombe.com/ Thom Conroy co-wrote the script for the film Night is Paper with Martin Sercombe during Martin's residency as the Massey-Palmerston North visiting artist in 2022. Thom is the author of the novels The Salted Air and The Naturalist (Penguin Random House) and the editor of the essay collection Home (Massey University Press). His short fiction, widely published in New Zealand and the US, has been recognised by Best American Short Stories and received other awards, including the Katherine Ann Porter Prize in Fiction. He is a senior lecturer in Creative Writing at Massey University, and the Edi- tor-in-Chief of the journal Headland. https://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/expertise/profile.cfm?stref=552930 Pam Falkenberg and Jack Cochran met in graduate school and made films together when they were young. Jack was part of the Iowa Creative Writing Workshop (and has written poetry all his life) and was working on a PhD in film studies when he left to pursue a career as a pro- fessional cinematographer in Los Angeles and London. Meanwhile, Pam stayed in school, got her PhD, and went on to become a film professor and experimental filmmaker, but eventually dropped out to work in visual display. They reconnected some thirty years later and formed Outlier Moving Pictures, honouring their new name by making technically innovative and po- etic films about life, love, landscapes, social justice, and the environment. https://www.outlier- movingpictures.com Csilla Toldy is a writer and translator from Hungary. Her writing has appeared in literary mag- azines and anthologies and in book form in three poetry pamphlets: Red Roots - Orange Sky (2013), The Emigrant Woman's Tale (2015) and Vertical Montage (2018), as short fiction in Angel Fur and other stories (2019) and as a novel with the title Bed Table Door (2023). Csilla creates film poems as a visual artist. Her award-winning work has been screened at international festivals. www.csillatoldy.co.uk Finn Harvor is an award-winning artist, writer, musician and filmmaker. He has articles in many journals including the Brooklyn Rail and Canadian Notes and Queries. He has presented to academic conferences in: Oxford, Bath, Liverpool, Berlin, Seoul, Osaka, Bologna, Madrid, Hel- sinki, and elsewhere. He has also been selected by festivals in: Korea, Ireland, the UK, the US, Canada, Mexico, China, Kazakhstan, Australia, Greece, Pakistan, Serbia, Portugal, Italy, Ger- many, Ukraine, India, and elsewhere. 'I'm particularly interested in the following themes: nature and the anthropocene, addiction and family dynamics (my late brother's story), technology and contemporary war, and the nature of love. I usually make videopoems that I term authorial movies; these are movies in which one person creates - authors - all elements of the movie.' https://bridgetextpress.weebly.com/ Javier Robledo is an Argentinian writer, performer, visual poet and the founder and director of VideoBardo International Video Poetry Archive and Festival. Originating in 1996 it is the oldest active festival in the world of its genre and has shown work in 21 countries. He has made numerous video poems and exhibited and performed in numerous festivals in Argentina and abroad. He was co-founder of Impa La Fabrica cultural city, where he built and directed the Fabril Microcinema from 1999 to 2013 with poetry, video and performance activities, and Bardo, a poetry magazine, from 1996 to 2004. He has published six books of poetry and one of stories. He received the Clamor Brzeska Award from Vortice Argentina 1994 and the Editorial Poetry Award 3+1 25 years in 2018. Ed. Santillana included a visual poem of his in its manual for secondary students. https://videobardo.wixsite.com Beate Goerdes, born in 1961 in Germany, currently resides in Cologne. She studied Fine Arts at the FH Koeln from 1987 to 1992. Since 2006, her artistic activity has focused on the creation of video compositions with electroacoustic sounds. She has actively participated in numerous inter- national video exhibitions and festivals, including: Collage on Screen - Kolaj Fest (New Orleans, USA); INTERBIFEB International Portraiture Biennial (Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina); The Haibun Film Festival (Cincinnati, Ohio, USA); Zebra Poetry Film Festival (Berlin, Germany); ALC Videoart Festival (Museum of Contemporary Art, Alicante, Spain); PROGR showroom (Bern, Switzerland); Kasseler Dok Und Videofest (Kassel, Germany); [BOX] Videoart Project Space (Milan, Italy) and Tangentiale (Kunstlerforum Bonn, Germany). www.beategoerdes.de Ian Gibbins is a poet, video artist and electronic musician living in South Australia. His poetry has been widely published in Australia and overseas, and includes four books, two of which are collaborations with visual artists. His award-winning poetry videos, video art and soundscapes have been exhibited to acclaim at festivals, installations, galleries and high-visibility public art displays around the world. Until he retired in 2014, Ian was an internationally recognised neu- roscientist and Professor of Anatomy at Flinders University, South Australia, having originally trained as a zoologist. www.iangibbins.com.au Judy Morris is a fine artist, based in the Adelaide Hills of South Australia. She interprets the natural world in drawings that emphasise the contours and textures of animal and plant forms, exploring their intricate beauty on the macroscopic and microscopic scale. One focus is the hu- man body, with pencil and charcoal drawings of the human form interacting with the everyday world. Recently, she has concentrated on contemporary botanical drawings in coloured pencil, bringing attention to the wonders of plants and their importance in our natural environment. See https://www.judymorris.net.au/ Carlos Ramirez Kobra was born in Neza (MX) in 1984. Poet, publicist and cultural manager, he is coordinator of the PLACA Platform in Mexico, managing cultural events such as the Chilan- go Andaluz Poetry Recital, the Gabinete Salvaje or the Festival de los Barrios. His poems have been published in various magazines and anthologies in Mexico and Spain; in the plaquettes Los Salvajes de Ciudad AKA (Deleatur) and A word with a bullet name (Dos10 Studio digital) in the collection of poems Own Dream Code (Editorial Ultramarina C&D 2020), dios un pixel (Centro Cultural Digital 2022), and Visual Trance (Malviaje , 2023). His audiovisual pieces have been selected by numerous festivals around the world. He has worked for 17 years with poetry projects that are in dialogue with other artistic expressions. https://carlosramirezkobra.com/ Penny Florence is an inter/cross/un/disciplinary artist and writer, and a feminist materialist who struggles with 'isms'. She is based in West Cornwall, where she exhibits digital poetry, films and mixed installations, especially, but not exclusively, as a member of the Newlyn Society of Artists (NSA). She has performed readings in various galleries in the UK and internationally, the most visible of which include Tate Modern and Tate Britain. She has worked in universities, while resisting the label 'academic', and her books, articles and papers are fundamentally concerned with the forms and processes of thinking and their intersection with what we call art and media. Appointments include: Head of Research Programmes at The Slade School of Fine Art (in- cluding leading the practice-based PhDs); inaugurating and running the first PhD programme at Falmouth University (also practice-based); and Chair of Humanities and Design Sciences at Art Center, Pasadena, USA. https://www.pennyflorence.com/ Dr Meriel Lland is an ecopoet, author, photographer, artist and film-poet. Until recently, she was Creative Writing Programme lead at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has worked with BBC Wildlife, RSPB Birds, National Geographic, Birdwatching magazine and the Natural History Museum. Meriel investigates biophilia, ecology and wellbeing, encouraging commu- nities to reconnect and care for the planet. Her work has been exhibited internationally at: ZEBRA, Berlin; Cyclop, Kyiv; Liberated Words, Arnolfini, Bristol and Bath, Encounters Short Film Festival, Bristol; REELpoetry, Houston; art en nature en art, Galerie du Chateau Sainte- Croix-de-Mareuil, Dordogne, France and many others. She is co-author of 18 books translated into 16 languages, including the Nature Explorer Guide for Kids (QED Publishing), the Wildlife Watcher Guide (Firefly Books), the Children's Encyclopedia of Animals (Arcturus) and Animal Talk (DK Publishing). www.meriellland.co.uk Ana Pantic is a poet, playwright, novelist and poetry filmmaker from Belgrade, Serbia. She grad- uated from Belgrade University, Faculty of Philology and was an actor for ten years in an in- dependent theatre group. Her poetry films have been presented and awarded at film festivals worldwide. She is an active performer at poetry events in Belgrade including slam poetry, spo- ken word and poetry performance. Her poems were published in the first Serbian Collection of Slam Poetry Tebi u lice as well as in several regional (former Yugoslavia) anthologies. She is interested in researching versatile modes of expressing poetry and believes that poetry film - as a challenging form intertwining literary and visual arts - opens a wide space for experimenting and expanding artistic boundaries. She paints and draws 'when she lacks words'. https://you- tube.com/@anapantic5289?si=Jxor4b4Ejot7Q0IV Artist Ana Segovia (b: 1991) lives and works in Mexico City and has been defined as one of the leading artists of their generation. Through his bold and brilliant figurative paintings, he exudes an extraordinary confidence with colour, using it to confront patriarchal culture or 'archetypes of Mexicanness [mexicanidad]' head on.

Review :
'As Director of FOTOGENIA, I am very proud to present the second Frame to Frames: Your Eyes Follow screening as part of FOTOGENIA 5, Mexico City, 2023. The films are all extraordinary, and I am thrilled that the painting Huapango Torero by Mexican artist Ana Segovia was selected as a prompt for making poetry films. Most importantly, this book provides an insight into the art of translation - from painting to bilingual poem to film in many different interpretations.' Christian Pacheco-Camara (Dr Chris Patch), Director of FOTOGENIA film festival. 'Como director de FOTOGENIA, tengo el honor de presentar la segunda edicion de la proyeccion de Frame to Frames: Your Eyes Follow como parte de FOTOGENIA 5, Cuidad de Mexico, 2023. Las peliculas son todas extraordinarias, y me siento emocionado de que el cuadro Huapango Torero del artista mexicana Ana Segovia fuera elegido como motivo para la creacion de peliculas poeticas. Ante todo, este libro proporciona una perspectiva del arte de la traduccion, de la pintura al poema bilingue, a la pelicula en sus muchas interpretaciones diferentes.' Christian Pacheco-Camara (Dr Chris Patch), Director de FOTOGENIA Festival de Cine. 'I am truly honoured and excited that my work has caught your attention to inspire the filmmakers and poets participating in the ekphrastic poetry film prize. I am delighted that my painting will be a part of this exciting event and I look forward to seeing how the filmmakers and poets interpret and respond to it in their work... the films are so amazing and it has been so meaningful to me.' Ana Segovia, artist. 'Me siento sinceramente honrado y emocionado por que mi trabajo haya captado vuestra atencion para inspirar a los cineastas y poetas que participan en el premio de videopoemas ecfrasticos. Estoy encantado con el hecho de que mi cuadro vaya a formar parte de este estimulante evento, y estoy deseando ver como responden a el y lo interpretan los cineastas y poetas... las peliculas son asombrosas y ha sido muy valioso para mi.' Ana Segovia, artista. 'International, intermedia and innovative; this collection shows a powerful way forward for transnational literary communication in the digital world. "Frame to Frames" lives up to its title by offering several approaches to artworks in all media and, potentially, in all languages. Looking becomes moving between; understanding is activated. It is, in creator Sarah Tremlett's own words concerning spatial materiality, "a deep and endlessly inspiring place".' Dr Penny Florence, Professor Emerita, The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL. 'Internacional, intermedia e innovadora: esta exposicion senala un potente camino a seguir para la comunicacion literaria transnacional en el mundo digital. "Frame to Frames" hace honor a su nombre, ofreciendo diversos enfoques hacia obras de arte a traves de cualquier medio y potencialmente en todos los idiomas. El mirar se convierte en moverse entremedias, la comprension se activa. Es, segun las palabras de la creadora Sarah Tremlett acerca de la materialidad espacial "un lugar profundo y de inspiracion inagotable".' Dra. Penny Florence, Proferosa Emerita de la Escuela Slade de Bellas Artes, UCL.