Another highlight of my career with the talented Rike and Pierre. It was a real honour to be part of the judging panel for the 2024 Weimar Poetry Film Festival. I also presented Frame to Frames : Your Eyes Follow publication and screening and really enjoyed the festival as a whole. Of course, I wish I could speak German as some of the events were naturally only in the native language. I did manage to communicate with Pierre in French (to some degree!!!) and hope to catch up with him again. However, I really like the way they run the festival, where artists are interviewed about their work, as well as showing films, and poetry readings are also part of the programme (see Rike's performance). It is also takes place at various cinemas around the town, so you enjoy a complete experience. I want to go back as I didn't spend long enough there, and was recovering from an operation so couldn't walk far enough around the beautiful city of philosophers.
Directors: Guido Naschert, Ana Maria Vallejo and Catalina Geraldo Velez
Jury Award – Best Animation Berkovitch (Germany 2024) with Director: Anya Ryzhkova.
Climate Change and Subjectivity documentary for REELpoetry 2023, with Ian Gibbins, Mary McDonald and ST.
Juror and Presenting The Poetics of Poetry Film at wonderful Women in Word festival, Hypatia Trust, Penzance 2023 with thanks to Director Linda Cleary. Judging poetry film competitions there 2023 and 2024.
Two or Three Things One Should Know About Video Poetry Symposium, Surrey (Canada) 5 November 2022. It was hosted by Tom Konvyes who curated the important Video Poetry exhibition 'Poets with a Video Camera : 1980–2020' at Surrey Art Gallery, where my video poem some everybodies was one of the works representing the period around 2010. This was a truly memorable event with wonderful people. To my left, just beyond Heather are Valerie and Daniel of BBE who have published Horse-Woman. Life slowly unfolds ....... We also all read at Co-Op Books in Vancouver, and some of us with accompanying videos. See below.
FOTOGENIA 2023 (presenting Frame to Frames : Your Eyes Follow book and poetry film prize won by British poetry filmmaker Meriel Lland), here with Ana Segovia and Chris Patch, Festival Director; and 2022, ST a judge.
Poems by Poetry Filmmakers, Adobe Books, San Francisco, Marc Zegans and Sarah 2022
Presenting the First Edition of Frame to Frames : Your Eyes Follow screening and prize at LYRA, Bristol, 2022. La Scapigliata (from the drawing by Leonardo da Vinci) won with poem by Lois P Jones (US) and film by Jutta Pryor (AUS), interview and photo by Sebastian Lewis.
North Cornwall Book Festival, 2019. Uprooted presentation and screening and poetry reading by Lucy English.
ZEBRA, Berlin, 2019. with Claudia Maas; State of the Art, British contingency; Adele Myers being honoured; time out at the Hamburger Bahnhof with Rebecca Rezakhani Hilton and artist friend; me and Adele.
'Agualuz' - me and Javier Robledo, Director of VideoBardo at an event at Por La Tierra / For the Earth 2012 edition of the festival where I presented a paper and showed She Seasons Contemplating Nature. This was an amazing experience in Buenos Aires over a number of days at numerous and varied locations. Brava!
Channelling Simonetta! 
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ABOVE: ST and JULIA BIRD at My Eyes Like Rays, National Poetry Competition Films, commission by Filmpoem for The Poetry Society, 2017. Claire Climbs Everest by Sam Harvey the poem.
Brian May and Denis Pellerin at Crinoline book launch. 
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BELOW: Back in Lithuania (now close to my heart) at TARP Festival, Vilnius, 2015 with Lucy English at the invitation of leading performer, poet, writer, educator Gabriele Labanauskaite. ABOVE: Mystic heron on the River Exe, and OBheal, Cork, 2018 where Mr Sky was one of the finalists.
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Talk and presentation on ST's Text on Screen at the weighty and impressive National Gallery of Art.
BELOW: ZEBRA 2014 |
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Poetry Film and Form discussion, Encounters Film Festival and Liberated Words III 2014 (Reflections and Memory) The Watershed, Bristol, with separate ST curated screening. ST chair: Panel: Professor Emeritus Penny Florence, Marc Neys, Adele Myers, Gabriele Labanauskaite, Lucy English, Martin Sexton
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Voices or Silences solo show, Klaipeda, Lithuania, 2009
LEFT: Inside Tony Trehy's Bury Festival of Text, 2009 and RIGHT: Outside!!! Tom Konyves showed my concrete text video poem Blanks in Discourse : 06 as part of his talk on Poetry Films (note not Videopoems) and later in the festival I was invited to show Some Everybodies alongside a poetry evening with Judy Kendall, Jesse Glass and Nick Thurston.