Nocturne for a Lighterman
January, 2025
Extended version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTFd-pwdrcs
Poet and Filmmaker: Sarah Tremlett
Soundscape: Marc Neys
A neo-symbolist poetry film to Whistler and his potential links to an ancestor working on the River Thames; from TREE, family history chronicle and poetry collection (forthcoming).
SCREENINGS:
REELpoetry, Houston, USA, 31 March– 4 April, 2025
January, 2025
Extended version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTFd-pwdrcs
Poet and Filmmaker: Sarah Tremlett
Soundscape: Marc Neys
A neo-symbolist poetry film to Whistler and his potential links to an ancestor working on the River Thames; from TREE, family history chronicle and poetry collection (forthcoming).
SCREENINGS:
REELpoetry, Houston, USA, 31 March– 4 April, 2025
Flight
2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfbA3rlFOtg
Poet and Filmmaker: Sarah Tremlett
Cleaning for your depressed mother from the age of five, and without the reassuring emotional bond of a mother-daughter relationship [and with drone footage], the child escapes into the Cornish skyline, alongside glider artist Peter Lanyon.
Poetic Prologue from Horse-Woman, poetic memoir chapbook, Basic Bruegel Editions, Moncton, Canada, April, 2025.
SCREENINGS:
Curious Mind Festival, Bath, UK, 11 March, 2025
REELpoetry, (online, also Zoom discussion with artists) Houston, USA, 1–7 April, 2024
FOTOGENIA Film Poetry and Divergent Narratives Festival (also Zoom discussion with artists) Mexico City, Mexico, 22 November, 2024
Chimes & Poetry Film Club, Sparkfest, Burdall’s Yard, Bath Spa University, Bath, UK, 14 May, 2024
Women in Word Festival, Hypatia Trust, Penzance, UK, 6 June, 2024
Aotearoa Poetry Film Festival, Wellington, New Zealand, 20–21 November, 2024
O’Bheal Poetry Film Competition, Cork, Ireland, 24 November, 2024 [and online]
Helios Sun Poetry Film Festival, 9–15 December, Mexico City, Mexico, 2024
2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfbA3rlFOtg
Poet and Filmmaker: Sarah Tremlett
Cleaning for your depressed mother from the age of five, and without the reassuring emotional bond of a mother-daughter relationship [and with drone footage], the child escapes into the Cornish skyline, alongside glider artist Peter Lanyon.
Poetic Prologue from Horse-Woman, poetic memoir chapbook, Basic Bruegel Editions, Moncton, Canada, April, 2025.
SCREENINGS:
Curious Mind Festival, Bath, UK, 11 March, 2025
REELpoetry, (online, also Zoom discussion with artists) Houston, USA, 1–7 April, 2024
FOTOGENIA Film Poetry and Divergent Narratives Festival (also Zoom discussion with artists) Mexico City, Mexico, 22 November, 2024
Chimes & Poetry Film Club, Sparkfest, Burdall’s Yard, Bath Spa University, Bath, UK, 14 May, 2024
Women in Word Festival, Hypatia Trust, Penzance, UK, 6 June, 2024
Aotearoa Poetry Film Festival, Wellington, New Zealand, 20–21 November, 2024
O’Bheal Poetry Film Competition, Cork, Ireland, 24 November, 2024 [and online]
Helios Sun Poetry Film Festival, 9–15 December, Mexico City, Mexico, 2024
Stimming Spell to Ward Off Neurotypical Banter
Sea of Po
22 May, 2024
https://seaofpo.vispo.com?p=st
Poet: Sarah Tremlett
Project Creator: Jim Andrews
Poem with kinetic computer programme, ever-changing visual poem of the poetry.
Sea of Po
22 May, 2024
https://seaofpo.vispo.com?p=st
Poet: Sarah Tremlett
Project Creator: Jim Andrews
Poem with kinetic computer programme, ever-changing visual poem of the poetry.
Bull / Toro
2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKYGzFMa0tY&t=6s
Poet and Filmmaker: Sarah Tremlett
The second edition of the ekphrastic poetry film competition – Frame to Frames : Your Eyes Follow (Cuadro a Cuadros : Tus Ojos Siguen) – was bilingual and also included an anthology of poems and a QR link to films. The painting Sarah Tremlett chose was Huapango Torero (2019) by Mexican non-binary artist Ana Segovia, which revises an original painting of a boy going into a bull’s field at night to practice bullfighting. In her painting, in a gesture against the cruel ‘entertainment’ the boy offers a flower to a bull. Bull / Toro with XaiLA aka Hatti Rees as a mime artist, depicts how man and bull are really similar, and when taunted will react, and finally lose their lives.
BOOK TOUR AND SCREENINGS:
Maldito Videopoetry Festival, Albacete, Spain, 11-17 November, 2024 [trip cancelled due to flash flooding storms]
Bristol Literary Film Festival, Bristol, UK, 27 October, 2024
We Need to Talk About Ekphrasis Now, Leeds Trinity University, Leeds, 6 July, 2024
Weimar Poetry Film Festival, Weimar, Germany, 1 June, 2024
Lyrical Visions VI, Titirangi Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 26 January, 2024
FOTOGENIA Film Poetry and Divergent Narratives Festival, Mexico City, Mexico, 2 December, 2023
2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKYGzFMa0tY&t=6s
Poet and Filmmaker: Sarah Tremlett
The second edition of the ekphrastic poetry film competition – Frame to Frames : Your Eyes Follow (Cuadro a Cuadros : Tus Ojos Siguen) – was bilingual and also included an anthology of poems and a QR link to films. The painting Sarah Tremlett chose was Huapango Torero (2019) by Mexican non-binary artist Ana Segovia, which revises an original painting of a boy going into a bull’s field at night to practice bullfighting. In her painting, in a gesture against the cruel ‘entertainment’ the boy offers a flower to a bull. Bull / Toro with XaiLA aka Hatti Rees as a mime artist, depicts how man and bull are really similar, and when taunted will react, and finally lose their lives.
BOOK TOUR AND SCREENINGS:
Maldito Videopoetry Festival, Albacete, Spain, 11-17 November, 2024 [trip cancelled due to flash flooding storms]
Bristol Literary Film Festival, Bristol, UK, 27 October, 2024
We Need to Talk About Ekphrasis Now, Leeds Trinity University, Leeds, 6 July, 2024
Weimar Poetry Film Festival, Weimar, Germany, 1 June, 2024
Lyrical Visions VI, Titirangi Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 26 January, 2024
FOTOGENIA Film Poetry and Divergent Narratives Festival, Mexico City, Mexico, 2 December, 2023
Villanelle for Elizabeth not Ophelia
2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5y5vocJZr0
Poet and Filmmaker: Sarah Tremlett
A retelling of the painting by Millais where Elizabeth, the model, rises out of the water rather than commits suicide at the hands of men. Includes comparisons to the Harvey Weinstein case in solidarity with the MeToo movement.
SCREENINGS:
Helios Sun Poetry Film Festival, [at VideoBardo Videopoetry Festival] Centro Municipal de Arte (CMA) de Avellaneda, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 23 November, 2023
Women in Word Festival, Hypatia Trust, Penzance, Cornwall, UK 5 June, 2023
LYRA poetry festival, Brunel’s SS Gt Britain, Bristol, UK [as part of Frame to Frames ekphrastic poetry film prize], 3 April, 2022
Absurdah, Absurd Art House Film Festival, 9 July, Sheerness, the Isle of Sheppey, UK, 2022
Women’s Canvas Festival of Films, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India, December, 2022
Maldito Videpoetry Festival, Albacete, Spain, November, 2022
FOTOGENIA Divergent Narratives Film Festival, Vol. 4, Programme 6, Mexico City, Mexico, 25 November, 2022
Bideodromo, BilbaoArte, Art House Zinema, Bilbao, Spain, 17 October, 2022
‘Two or Three Things One Should Know about Videopoetry’ symposium, key speaker ‘sound in videopoetry’ presentation; convener: Tom Konyves, Surrey, Vancouver, Canada, 5 November, 2022
2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5y5vocJZr0
Poet and Filmmaker: Sarah Tremlett
A retelling of the painting by Millais where Elizabeth, the model, rises out of the water rather than commits suicide at the hands of men. Includes comparisons to the Harvey Weinstein case in solidarity with the MeToo movement.
SCREENINGS:
Helios Sun Poetry Film Festival, [at VideoBardo Videopoetry Festival] Centro Municipal de Arte (CMA) de Avellaneda, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 23 November, 2023
Women in Word Festival, Hypatia Trust, Penzance, Cornwall, UK 5 June, 2023
LYRA poetry festival, Brunel’s SS Gt Britain, Bristol, UK [as part of Frame to Frames ekphrastic poetry film prize], 3 April, 2022
Absurdah, Absurd Art House Film Festival, 9 July, Sheerness, the Isle of Sheppey, UK, 2022
Women’s Canvas Festival of Films, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India, December, 2022
Maldito Videpoetry Festival, Albacete, Spain, November, 2022
FOTOGENIA Divergent Narratives Film Festival, Vol. 4, Programme 6, Mexico City, Mexico, 25 November, 2022
Bideodromo, BilbaoArte, Art House Zinema, Bilbao, Spain, 17 October, 2022
‘Two or Three Things One Should Know about Videopoetry’ symposium, key speaker ‘sound in videopoetry’ presentation; convener: Tom Konyves, Surrey, Vancouver, Canada, 5 November, 2022
I Cannot be Human
2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug0KsS33inE&t=128s
Poet and Filmmaker: Sarah Tremlett
A human, bird and animal portrait as a personal elegy for the planet. Sarah Tremlett expresses her love of her pet rabbit, and the sparrows she has encouraged to nest and breed (around 40 a year) in her tiny 30’ x 60’ rewilded garden. A personal approach to the need for bringing back natural habitats, for valuing animals and birds in our lives, at an emotional and domestic level, and highlighting the terrible consequences of devastation and loss if we don’t act now.
SCREENINGS:
VideoBardo Videopoetry Festival, Centro Cultural General San Martin, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1 December, 2023
FOTOGENIA Film Poetry and Divergent Narratives Festival, Mexico City, Mexico, 1 December, 2023
MIX Conference at The British Library, London, UK, 7 July, 2023
(as part of a triad group presentation on Climate Change and poetry films with Csilla Toldy (Janet Lees unable to attend)
REELpoetry, Houston, Texas, USA [online] 26 February 2023
(as part of a triad discussion and screening on Climate Change and Subjectivity with Mary McDonald and Ian Gibbins)
Also in Charles Olsen’s La Exposicion, (The Exhibition) a playful ‘documentary’ of the art world:
FilmArte Festival at Artistic Metropol, Madrid, Spain, 6 May, 2023
Cinemastica, Granada, Spain, 10–27 November 2022
FilmArte Festival, Berlin, Germany, October, 2022
The Deep Adaptation Forum https://www.deepadaptation.info
2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug0KsS33inE&t=128s
Poet and Filmmaker: Sarah Tremlett
A human, bird and animal portrait as a personal elegy for the planet. Sarah Tremlett expresses her love of her pet rabbit, and the sparrows she has encouraged to nest and breed (around 40 a year) in her tiny 30’ x 60’ rewilded garden. A personal approach to the need for bringing back natural habitats, for valuing animals and birds in our lives, at an emotional and domestic level, and highlighting the terrible consequences of devastation and loss if we don’t act now.
SCREENINGS:
VideoBardo Videopoetry Festival, Centro Cultural General San Martin, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1 December, 2023
FOTOGENIA Film Poetry and Divergent Narratives Festival, Mexico City, Mexico, 1 December, 2023
MIX Conference at The British Library, London, UK, 7 July, 2023
(as part of a triad group presentation on Climate Change and poetry films with Csilla Toldy (Janet Lees unable to attend)
REELpoetry, Houston, Texas, USA [online] 26 February 2023
(as part of a triad discussion and screening on Climate Change and Subjectivity with Mary McDonald and Ian Gibbins)
Also in Charles Olsen’s La Exposicion, (The Exhibition) a playful ‘documentary’ of the art world:
FilmArte Festival at Artistic Metropol, Madrid, Spain, 6 May, 2023
Cinemastica, Granada, Spain, 10–27 November 2022
FilmArte Festival, Berlin, Germany, October, 2022
The Deep Adaptation Forum https://www.deepadaptation.info
Firewash
2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-C2wmV5ojQ
https://vimeo.com/463122691
Poet and Filmmaker: Sarah Tremlett
from TREE family history chronicle and poetry collection
A poetry film derived from staying on a farm at the site of a mediaeval mining ancestor.
The poem is included in Earth Lines geopoetry and geopoetic anthology published by Edinburgh Geological Society on 1st October 2021. Accompanying audio and video works are available at www.edinburghgeolsoc.org
SCREENINGS:
Tranas at the Fringe, International Arts Festival, ‘The Ancestors in Me’ Sweden, 3 July, 2022
ZEBRA poetry film festival, Prism: Gazing Nature, Berlin, Germany, 26 November, 2021
LYRA Poetry Festival, Reconnections curation / family history poetry films screening, Bristol, UK, 17 April, 2021
REELpoetry, Houston, USA, 24–28 February, 2021
in 15-minute video presentation including: Selfie with Marilyn and Lockdowning
The Geopoetry Conference, UK, [online] 1 October, 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzs5YMhJiAk
2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-C2wmV5ojQ
https://vimeo.com/463122691
Poet and Filmmaker: Sarah Tremlett
from TREE family history chronicle and poetry collection
A poetry film derived from staying on a farm at the site of a mediaeval mining ancestor.
The poem is included in Earth Lines geopoetry and geopoetic anthology published by Edinburgh Geological Society on 1st October 2021. Accompanying audio and video works are available at www.edinburghgeolsoc.org
SCREENINGS:
Tranas at the Fringe, International Arts Festival, ‘The Ancestors in Me’ Sweden, 3 July, 2022
ZEBRA poetry film festival, Prism: Gazing Nature, Berlin, Germany, 26 November, 2021
LYRA Poetry Festival, Reconnections curation / family history poetry films screening, Bristol, UK, 17 April, 2021
REELpoetry, Houston, USA, 24–28 February, 2021
in 15-minute video presentation including: Selfie with Marilyn and Lockdowning
The Geopoetry Conference, UK, [online] 1 October, 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzs5YMhJiAk
Selfie with Marilyn
2020
The Visible Poetry Project Link: https://vimeo.com/411836281
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju6zhR19IHc&t=40s
Director: Sarah Tremlett
Poet: Heidi Seaborn (US)
Poem: ‘Snapping a Selfie’
A commission by the Visible Poetry Project where the filmmaker could choose a poem to make a poetry film. A yearly project for poetry month in the USA. Tremlett chose Heidi Seaborn’s poem based on Marilyn Monroe, as her daughter Hatti could do a good impression of her. The poetry film shows Hatti as Marilyn trying to recite the poem. This happens three times with errors and once when she manages it. The fourth wall is broken as she looks down to check her lines. Hatti copies Marilyn’s voice and mannerisms and generates the same sense of pathos in the appropriation of a sexualised role or persona. At the beginning the speeded-up makeup routine is shown, and at the end the removing the makeup completes the picture.
uploaded to Vimeo VPP channel, 25 April, 2020
FIRST PRIZE MALDITO VIDEOPOETRY FESTIVAL, 2021
SCREENINGS:
Mary McDonald presents Film Poetry, Poetry Film 101
The Microlearning Series [online] 23 January, 2024
Maskwacis Cultural College, Alberta, Canada, organiser: Manisha Khetarpal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KyIi_NXBw8
Maldito Videopoetry Festival, Albacete, Spain, winners screening, 2nd and 3rd November, 2023
DistURBANce, curation by Ian Gibbins for REELpoetry, Houston, USA, 25–27 April, 2022
https://vimeo.com/groups/302782/videos/679856492
‘Poetry Film – an enquiry into defining a poetic genre’
DCAC (Digital Culture and Audiovisual Challenges) conference, 13–14 May, 2022
Department of Audio and Visual Arts, Ionian Academy of the Ionian University, Corfu
mixed presentation of artists and Selfie with Marilyn
Winner Maldito Videopoetry Festival, Albacete, Spain, 6 October, 2021
the FILMIN platform – from October 7. Finalist works remain continuously on FILMIN
https://www.filmin.es/pelicula/maldito-festival-de-videopoesia-finalistas-v-edicion
https://malditofestival.com/v-edicion-2021/
ZEBRA poetry film club, [online] 2021
REELpoetry, Houston, USA, 24–28 February, 2021
in 15-minute video presentation including: Firewash and Lockdowning
Presenting on Poetry Film
Mary McDonald presents Poetry Film, 4 May, 2021 and 13 August, 2020
Poetry Film 101 [online]The Microlearning Series
Maskwacis Cultural College, Alberta, Canada, organiser: Manisha Khetarpal
guest presenter
featuring Selfie with Marilyn and The Poetics of Poetry Film
ZEBRA poetry film festival, Berlin, Germany
Prism, Feminist Voices, 2020 [online]
FOTOGENIA Film Poetry and Divergent Narratives Film Festival, Mexico City, Mexico, 2020
SELECTED INTERVIEW ON MAKING THE FILM
Arts + Literature Laboratory
interviewed by Rita Mae Reese
https://artlitlab.org/all-review/making-marilyn-an-interview-with-filmmaker-sarah-tremlett
2020
The Visible Poetry Project Link: https://vimeo.com/411836281
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju6zhR19IHc&t=40s
Director: Sarah Tremlett
Poet: Heidi Seaborn (US)
Poem: ‘Snapping a Selfie’
A commission by the Visible Poetry Project where the filmmaker could choose a poem to make a poetry film. A yearly project for poetry month in the USA. Tremlett chose Heidi Seaborn’s poem based on Marilyn Monroe, as her daughter Hatti could do a good impression of her. The poetry film shows Hatti as Marilyn trying to recite the poem. This happens three times with errors and once when she manages it. The fourth wall is broken as she looks down to check her lines. Hatti copies Marilyn’s voice and mannerisms and generates the same sense of pathos in the appropriation of a sexualised role or persona. At the beginning the speeded-up makeup routine is shown, and at the end the removing the makeup completes the picture.
uploaded to Vimeo VPP channel, 25 April, 2020
FIRST PRIZE MALDITO VIDEOPOETRY FESTIVAL, 2021
SCREENINGS:
Mary McDonald presents Film Poetry, Poetry Film 101
The Microlearning Series [online] 23 January, 2024
Maskwacis Cultural College, Alberta, Canada, organiser: Manisha Khetarpal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KyIi_NXBw8
Maldito Videopoetry Festival, Albacete, Spain, winners screening, 2nd and 3rd November, 2023
DistURBANce, curation by Ian Gibbins for REELpoetry, Houston, USA, 25–27 April, 2022
https://vimeo.com/groups/302782/videos/679856492
‘Poetry Film – an enquiry into defining a poetic genre’
DCAC (Digital Culture and Audiovisual Challenges) conference, 13–14 May, 2022
Department of Audio and Visual Arts, Ionian Academy of the Ionian University, Corfu
mixed presentation of artists and Selfie with Marilyn
Winner Maldito Videopoetry Festival, Albacete, Spain, 6 October, 2021
the FILMIN platform – from October 7. Finalist works remain continuously on FILMIN
https://www.filmin.es/pelicula/maldito-festival-de-videopoesia-finalistas-v-edicion
https://malditofestival.com/v-edicion-2021/
ZEBRA poetry film club, [online] 2021
REELpoetry, Houston, USA, 24–28 February, 2021
in 15-minute video presentation including: Firewash and Lockdowning
Presenting on Poetry Film
Mary McDonald presents Poetry Film, 4 May, 2021 and 13 August, 2020
Poetry Film 101 [online]The Microlearning Series
Maskwacis Cultural College, Alberta, Canada, organiser: Manisha Khetarpal
guest presenter
featuring Selfie with Marilyn and The Poetics of Poetry Film
ZEBRA poetry film festival, Berlin, Germany
Prism, Feminist Voices, 2020 [online]
FOTOGENIA Film Poetry and Divergent Narratives Film Festival, Mexico City, Mexico, 2020
SELECTED INTERVIEW ON MAKING THE FILM
Arts + Literature Laboratory
interviewed by Rita Mae Reese
https://artlitlab.org/all-review/making-marilyn-an-interview-with-filmmaker-sarah-tremlett
Lockdowning
2020
https://vimeo.com/491219391
Poet and Filmmaker: Sarah Tremlett
As we counted the days in lockdown so this seven-minute film documents separate moments through the months, from April to September 2020.
SCREENINGS:
REELpoetry, Houston [online] 24–28 February, 2021
2020
https://vimeo.com/491219391
Poet and Filmmaker: Sarah Tremlett
As we counted the days in lockdown so this seven-minute film documents separate moments through the months, from April to September 2020.
SCREENINGS:
REELpoetry, Houston [online] 24–28 February, 2021
Bird Poem
2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMgeXjA15so
Filmmaker: Sarah Tremlett
Poet: Helen Johnson
A collaboration and commission from Dr Helen Johnson, CAW, Brighton University, Brighton, UK. A bird on the Christmas tree becomes the motif in a family narrative.
SCREENINGS:
‘Poetry Film – Getting Started’
Wirral Poetry Festival 27 June, 2021
Sarah Wimbush, Sarah Tremlett and Isobel Turner. Mixed artists video compilation with Bird Poem.
LYRA Poetry Festival, ‘Reconnections’ curation / family history poetry films screening, Bristol, UK, 17 April, 2021
‘Collaborative Methods Between Poet and Filmmaker – Helen Johnson and Sarah Tremlett’
presentation Centre for Arts and Wellbeing [online] 19 October, 2020
2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMgeXjA15so
Filmmaker: Sarah Tremlett
Poet: Helen Johnson
A collaboration and commission from Dr Helen Johnson, CAW, Brighton University, Brighton, UK. A bird on the Christmas tree becomes the motif in a family narrative.
SCREENINGS:
‘Poetry Film – Getting Started’
Wirral Poetry Festival 27 June, 2021
Sarah Wimbush, Sarah Tremlett and Isobel Turner. Mixed artists video compilation with Bird Poem.
LYRA Poetry Festival, ‘Reconnections’ curation / family history poetry films screening, Bristol, UK, 17 April, 2021
‘Collaborative Methods Between Poet and Filmmaker – Helen Johnson and Sarah Tremlett’
presentation Centre for Arts and Wellbeing [online] 19 October, 2020
I Swallow
2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G5f0c1HYvo
Filmmaker: Sarah Tremlett
Poet: Caleb Parkin
A Surrealist tale about cycling and swallowing flies.
SCREENINGS:
‘Amplified Voices’
MIX conference, 2021, [online] 3 & 4 July, 2021
Professor Lucy English of Bath Spa University hosts a discussion with Adrian B. Earle (of Think, Write, Fly) and Sarah Tremlett of Liberated Words on the subject of Amplified Voices in poetry film.
https://vimeo.com/583490817
Absurd Art House Film Festival, Bluetown, Sheerness, 23 November, 2021
FOTOGENIA film poetry and divergent narratives film festival [online] 24–27 November, 2021
Midwest Videopoetry Festival live at ALL in Madison and at Woodland Pattern in Milwaukee, 9 October (Day 2), 2021.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id4sbqhCboc&list=PLSpsTdz21VkWOyVfS4NA4tyc55pmUMuS7&index=6
Lyrical Visions, New Zealand, Titirangi Theatre, 9 December, 2020
https://martinsercombe.com/lyrical-visions-2/
2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G5f0c1HYvo
Filmmaker: Sarah Tremlett
Poet: Caleb Parkin
A Surrealist tale about cycling and swallowing flies.
SCREENINGS:
‘Amplified Voices’
MIX conference, 2021, [online] 3 & 4 July, 2021
Professor Lucy English of Bath Spa University hosts a discussion with Adrian B. Earle (of Think, Write, Fly) and Sarah Tremlett of Liberated Words on the subject of Amplified Voices in poetry film.
https://vimeo.com/583490817
Absurd Art House Film Festival, Bluetown, Sheerness, 23 November, 2021
FOTOGENIA film poetry and divergent narratives film festival [online] 24–27 November, 2021
Midwest Videopoetry Festival live at ALL in Madison and at Woodland Pattern in Milwaukee, 9 October (Day 2), 2021.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id4sbqhCboc&list=PLSpsTdz21VkWOyVfS4NA4tyc55pmUMuS7&index=6
Lyrical Visions, New Zealand, Titirangi Theatre, 9 December, 2020
https://martinsercombe.com/lyrical-visions-2/
Paper River
2020
https://vimeo.com/344068197
Poet and Filmmaker: Sarah Tremlett
from TREE family history chronicle and poetry collection. Sarah Tremlett discovers a family history in West Country papermaking at the outbreak of the First World War, and the social unrest and pollution caused.
SCREENINGS:
MIX Conference, Bath Spa University, UK, 1 July, 2019
presentation, poetry reading and screening
Scottish Centre for Geopoetics conference, Wiston Lodge, Biggar, Scotland, 14 June, 2019
‘Expressing the Earth in the Year of Indigenous Languages’
presentation, poetry reading and screening
2020
https://vimeo.com/344068197
Poet and Filmmaker: Sarah Tremlett
from TREE family history chronicle and poetry collection. Sarah Tremlett discovers a family history in West Country papermaking at the outbreak of the First World War, and the social unrest and pollution caused.
SCREENINGS:
MIX Conference, Bath Spa University, UK, 1 July, 2019
presentation, poetry reading and screening
Scottish Centre for Geopoetics conference, Wiston Lodge, Biggar, Scotland, 14 June, 2019
‘Expressing the Earth in the Year of Indigenous Languages’
presentation, poetry reading and screening
Night Bus
2018
https://vimeo.com/294316131
Poet and Filmmaker: Sarah Tremlett
A narrative trying to imagine memories of war. And part of Uprooted curation.
SCREENINGS:
REELpoetry, Houston, Texas, USA, 26 January, 2020 live presentation
The +Institute [for Experimental Arts] and Void Network – The 7th International Video Poetry Festival, Athens, Greece, 14 December, 2019
LYRA Poetry Festival, Bristol, UK, 23 March, reprogrammed for 13 April, 2019
Bath Spa Empathy Conference, Pound Arts, Corsham, UK, ‘Engaging Empathy Through Creativity’, 16 November, 2018
North Cornwall Book Festival, St Endellion, Cornwall, UK, 4 October, 2018
2018
https://vimeo.com/294316131
Poet and Filmmaker: Sarah Tremlett
A narrative trying to imagine memories of war. And part of Uprooted curation.
SCREENINGS:
REELpoetry, Houston, Texas, USA, 26 January, 2020 live presentation
The +Institute [for Experimental Arts] and Void Network – The 7th International Video Poetry Festival, Athens, Greece, 14 December, 2019
LYRA Poetry Festival, Bristol, UK, 23 March, reprogrammed for 13 April, 2019
Bath Spa Empathy Conference, Pound Arts, Corsham, UK, ‘Engaging Empathy Through Creativity’, 16 November, 2018
North Cornwall Book Festival, St Endellion, Cornwall, UK, 4 October, 2018
Solstice Sol Invictus
2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H9wZu-ZEY0
Poet for first half and Filmmaker: Sarah Tremlett
Poet for second half: Lucy English
commission for The Book of Hours, poet Lucy English
Inspired by modernist paintings of the sun, the construction of the words, film and the music combine to bring hope and rebirth in times of uncertainty.
SCREENINGS:
VIDEOPOESIA A CIELO ABIERTO curation by Alejandro Thornton,
Posverso Biennial of Experimental Poetry, the Centro de Capacitación y Cultura ATSA, Junín, Argentina, 6th December, 2024.
Film and Video Poetry Society Symposium ‘15 remarkable films and poems’, 13 November, 2020
Tranas At the Fringe International Arts Festival, Tranas, Sweden, 10/11 October, 2020
Versopolis Festival of Hope, 2020 curated screening by Haus für Poesie for Versopolis Review, 25 April, 2020
https://www.versopolis.com/festival-of-hope/festival-of-hope/865/poetry-films-of-hope
Saboteur Awards, 18 May, 2019 presentation with Lucy English on The Book of Hours
Big Poetry Weekend, Swindon, 4–6 October, 2019, presentation by Lucy English on The Book of Hours
Newlyn International Film Festival, 2019, Lucy English presentation on The Book of Hours
ZEBRA poetry film festival, Munster, Germany, 28 September, 2018
ZEBRA poetry film festival, Berlin, Germany, ‘Very British’ 6 Poetry Films, 6 December, 2019
The +Institute [for Experimental Arts] and Void Network – The 7th International Video Poetry Festival, 14 December, 2019
Permanent link: http://filmpoetry.org/solstice-sarah-tremlett-lucy-english_sarah-tremlett-uk/
2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H9wZu-ZEY0
Poet for first half and Filmmaker: Sarah Tremlett
Poet for second half: Lucy English
commission for The Book of Hours, poet Lucy English
Inspired by modernist paintings of the sun, the construction of the words, film and the music combine to bring hope and rebirth in times of uncertainty.
SCREENINGS:
VIDEOPOESIA A CIELO ABIERTO curation by Alejandro Thornton,
Posverso Biennial of Experimental Poetry, the Centro de Capacitación y Cultura ATSA, Junín, Argentina, 6th December, 2024.
Film and Video Poetry Society Symposium ‘15 remarkable films and poems’, 13 November, 2020
Tranas At the Fringe International Arts Festival, Tranas, Sweden, 10/11 October, 2020
Versopolis Festival of Hope, 2020 curated screening by Haus für Poesie for Versopolis Review, 25 April, 2020
https://www.versopolis.com/festival-of-hope/festival-of-hope/865/poetry-films-of-hope
Saboteur Awards, 18 May, 2019 presentation with Lucy English on The Book of Hours
Big Poetry Weekend, Swindon, 4–6 October, 2019, presentation by Lucy English on The Book of Hours
Newlyn International Film Festival, 2019, Lucy English presentation on The Book of Hours
ZEBRA poetry film festival, Munster, Germany, 28 September, 2018
ZEBRA poetry film festival, Berlin, Germany, ‘Very British’ 6 Poetry Films, 6 December, 2019
The +Institute [for Experimental Arts] and Void Network – The 7th International Video Poetry Festival, 14 December, 2019
Permanent link: http://filmpoetry.org/solstice-sarah-tremlett-lucy-english_sarah-tremlett-uk/
Summer Solstice
2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky3Klu4yyS8&t=38s
Director: Sarah Tremlett
Poet: Lucy English
A West Coast bohemian vibe for Lucy English’s Book of Hours poetry film project.
2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky3Klu4yyS8&t=38s
Director: Sarah Tremlett
Poet: Lucy English
A West Coast bohemian vibe for Lucy English’s Book of Hours poetry film project.
Mr Sky
2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm-dy57kdms&t=25s
Director: Sarah Tremlett
Poet: Lucy English
A poem about a couple’s uncertain relationship is paired with the same view of the sky from dawn to dusk, and pictured like rotating, random slot machine images.
SCREENINGS:
Lyrical Visions VI, Titirangi Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 26 January, 2024
Poetry Film Club, John Sebastian Lightship, Bristol, UK, April, 2024
OBheal Poetry Film Festival at Dali, IndieCork Film Festival, Cork, Ireland, 13 October, 2019
Rabbit Heart Poetry Film Festival, shortlisted for best Valentine, Worcester, MA, USA,
20 October, 2018
2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm-dy57kdms&t=25s
Director: Sarah Tremlett
Poet: Lucy English
A poem about a couple’s uncertain relationship is paired with the same view of the sky from dawn to dusk, and pictured like rotating, random slot machine images.
SCREENINGS:
Lyrical Visions VI, Titirangi Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 26 January, 2024
Poetry Film Club, John Sebastian Lightship, Bristol, UK, April, 2024
OBheal Poetry Film Festival at Dali, IndieCork Film Festival, Cork, Ireland, 13 October, 2019
Rabbit Heart Poetry Film Festival, shortlisted for best Valentine, Worcester, MA, USA,
20 October, 2018
Claire Climbs Everest
2017
https://vimeo.com/228666910
Director: Sarah Tremlett
Filmmaker: Howard Vause
Poet: Sam Harvey
A commission from Alastair Cook of Film Poem in conjunction with The Poetry Society
and the National Poetry Competition finalists. Paired with poet Sam Harvey for the poem ‘Claire Climbs Everest’. A relationship ends and has its own fallout.
SCREENINGS:
‘My Eyes Like Rays’, The Poetry Society, 2017
screening and poetry reading
The Poetry Society, Poetry Café, Betterton St, London, 13 October, 2017 and
Filmpoem Festival, The Depot, Lewes, 28 October, 2017
Director: Alastair Cook, Organiser: by Helmi Stil
2017
https://vimeo.com/228666910
Director: Sarah Tremlett
Filmmaker: Howard Vause
Poet: Sam Harvey
A commission from Alastair Cook of Film Poem in conjunction with The Poetry Society
and the National Poetry Competition finalists. Paired with poet Sam Harvey for the poem ‘Claire Climbs Everest’. A relationship ends and has its own fallout.
SCREENINGS:
‘My Eyes Like Rays’, The Poetry Society, 2017
screening and poetry reading
The Poetry Society, Poetry Café, Betterton St, London, 13 October, 2017 and
Filmpoem Festival, The Depot, Lewes, 28 October, 2017
Director: Alastair Cook, Organiser: by Helmi Stil
Dance
2016
https://vimeo.com/203112077
Poet and Filmmaker: Sarah Tremlett
As we watch an infant in a ballet class we are transported to the same person as a teenager putting on makeup. With footage from two time periods in her daughter’s life, Sarah Tremlett also evokes the sadness of time passing and someone you love preparing to go out into the world.
SCREENINGS:
The Poetics and Poetry Network (of North-West Universities) Symposium
Salford, 27 January, 2017
invited by Associate Professor Judy Kendall for a presentation on poetry film
the Media City campus of Salford university with
Two Waters and From the Rivers to the Sea
Liberated Words at Bath Fringe Festival, 9 June, 2016
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, Bath, UK
Dance and Freedom poetry film screening
2016
https://vimeo.com/203112077
Poet and Filmmaker: Sarah Tremlett
As we watch an infant in a ballet class we are transported to the same person as a teenager putting on makeup. With footage from two time periods in her daughter’s life, Sarah Tremlett also evokes the sadness of time passing and someone you love preparing to go out into the world.
SCREENINGS:
The Poetics and Poetry Network (of North-West Universities) Symposium
Salford, 27 January, 2017
invited by Associate Professor Judy Kendall for a presentation on poetry film
the Media City campus of Salford university with
Two Waters and From the Rivers to the Sea
Liberated Words at Bath Fringe Festival, 9 June, 2016
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, Bath, UK
Dance and Freedom poetry film screening
In the Turning
2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSR-Loy06NA
Poet and Filmmaker: Sarah Tremlett
A concrete video poem with bands of colour, like a moving painting. A Formalist experiment as both a semi-lyric poem and graphic poetic screen. Here the text on screen echoes the voice but also depicts what is shown – for example, in relation to the mention of sun and water. It is about a resolve or absolute integrity that the truth, that is present through human awareness, can be found in all things.
SCREENINGS:
‘Ten Years of Minimal Videopoems’
TARP – Vilnius Audio Visual Poetry Film Festival, National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, Lithuania
19 September, 2015
Presentation:
Mistaken Identity
She Seasons Contemplating Nature
Some Everybodies
From the Rivers to the Sea
Two Waters
In the Turning
Soundsrite, 2014
creative arts journal of sound, text and image [online]
founded in 2009 by Hazel Smith and Roger T. Dean, Australia
Invitation from Hazel Smith with She Seasons Contemplating Nature
https://soundsrite.uws.edu.au/soundsRiteContent/volume6/TremlettInfo.html
‘Poetry Film and Form’
hosting discussion and screening
Liberated Words Poetry Film Festival III, Reflections: Poetry Film and Memory
19 September, 2014
at Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival
as part of Bristol Poetry Festival for three days – 13th, 19th, 20th September
The Arnolfini, the Watershed, and the YMCA
‘Re: Turning – rhythm and poetry film’
The South Bank Poetry International Festival (Festival of Love)
London, UK, 19 July, 2014
invited presentation on graphic poetics, contemplative poetry film and visual philosophy
introduced by Hazel Smith
other films:
AMAM AMMA
Blanks in Discourse : 05
Patterned Utterance
She Seasons Contemplating Nature
2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSR-Loy06NA
Poet and Filmmaker: Sarah Tremlett
A concrete video poem with bands of colour, like a moving painting. A Formalist experiment as both a semi-lyric poem and graphic poetic screen. Here the text on screen echoes the voice but also depicts what is shown – for example, in relation to the mention of sun and water. It is about a resolve or absolute integrity that the truth, that is present through human awareness, can be found in all things.
SCREENINGS:
‘Ten Years of Minimal Videopoems’
TARP – Vilnius Audio Visual Poetry Film Festival, National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, Lithuania
19 September, 2015
Presentation:
Mistaken Identity
She Seasons Contemplating Nature
Some Everybodies
From the Rivers to the Sea
Two Waters
In the Turning
Soundsrite, 2014
creative arts journal of sound, text and image [online]
founded in 2009 by Hazel Smith and Roger T. Dean, Australia
Invitation from Hazel Smith with She Seasons Contemplating Nature
https://soundsrite.uws.edu.au/soundsRiteContent/volume6/TremlettInfo.html
‘Poetry Film and Form’
hosting discussion and screening
Liberated Words Poetry Film Festival III, Reflections: Poetry Film and Memory
19 September, 2014
at Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival
as part of Bristol Poetry Festival for three days – 13th, 19th, 20th September
The Arnolfini, the Watershed, and the YMCA
‘Re: Turning – rhythm and poetry film’
The South Bank Poetry International Festival (Festival of Love)
London, UK, 19 July, 2014
invited presentation on graphic poetics, contemplative poetry film and visual philosophy
introduced by Hazel Smith
other films:
AMAM AMMA
Blanks in Discourse : 05
Patterned Utterance
She Seasons Contemplating Nature
From the Rivers to the Sea
2014
https://vimeo.com/140297812
Videopoet: Sarah Tremlett
A concrete videopoem, with vertical text, centred on the circularity of life, depicted through the flow of water.
SCREENINGS:
The Poetics and Poetry Network (of North West Universities) Symposium
Salford, UK, 27 January 2017
invited by Dr Judy Kendall
the Media City campus of Salford university
with Two Waters and Dance
‘Ten Years of Minimal Videopoems’
TARP – Vilnius Audio Visual Poetry Film Festival, National Gallery of Art
Vilnius, Lithuania, 19 September, 2015
presentation:
Mistaken Identity
She Seasons Contemplating Nature
Some Everybodies
From the Rivers to the Sea
Two Waters
In the Turning
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com
Phyllis Cole-Dai's Mindfulness project 2015 [online]
‘Water’
solo screening, looped
Newbridge Artists, Fairfield House, Bath, UK, June 2014
with Two Waters
2014
https://vimeo.com/140297812
Videopoet: Sarah Tremlett
A concrete videopoem, with vertical text, centred on the circularity of life, depicted through the flow of water.
SCREENINGS:
The Poetics and Poetry Network (of North West Universities) Symposium
Salford, UK, 27 January 2017
invited by Dr Judy Kendall
the Media City campus of Salford university
with Two Waters and Dance
‘Ten Years of Minimal Videopoems’
TARP – Vilnius Audio Visual Poetry Film Festival, National Gallery of Art
Vilnius, Lithuania, 19 September, 2015
presentation:
Mistaken Identity
She Seasons Contemplating Nature
Some Everybodies
From the Rivers to the Sea
Two Waters
In the Turning
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com
Phyllis Cole-Dai's Mindfulness project 2015 [online]
‘Water’
solo screening, looped
Newbridge Artists, Fairfield House, Bath, UK, June 2014
with Two Waters
Two Waters
2014
Videopoet: Sarah Tremlett
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu4P0RpQm0o
The meeting of the River Avon and the magic and mystery surrounding the hot springs in Bath.
SCREENINGS:
The Poetics and Poetry Network (of North West Universities) Symposium
Salford, UK, 27 January 2017
invited presentation by Dr Judy Kendall
the Media City campus of Salford university
with Dance and From the Rivers to the Sea
‘Ten Years of Minimal Videopoems’
TARP – Vilnius Audio Visual Poetry Film Festival, National Gallery of Art
Vilnius, Lithuania, 19 September, 2015
presentation:
Mistaken Identity
She Seasons Contemplating Nature
Some Everybodies
From the Rivers to the Sea
Two Waters
In the Turning
‘Water’
solo screening, looped
Newbridge Artists, Fairfield House, Bath, UK, June 2014
with From the Rivers to the Sea
2014
Videopoet: Sarah Tremlett
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu4P0RpQm0o
The meeting of the River Avon and the magic and mystery surrounding the hot springs in Bath.
SCREENINGS:
The Poetics and Poetry Network (of North West Universities) Symposium
Salford, UK, 27 January 2017
invited presentation by Dr Judy Kendall
the Media City campus of Salford university
with Dance and From the Rivers to the Sea
‘Ten Years of Minimal Videopoems’
TARP – Vilnius Audio Visual Poetry Film Festival, National Gallery of Art
Vilnius, Lithuania, 19 September, 2015
presentation:
Mistaken Identity
She Seasons Contemplating Nature
Some Everybodies
From the Rivers to the Sea
Two Waters
In the Turning
‘Water’
solo screening, looped
Newbridge Artists, Fairfield House, Bath, UK, June 2014
with From the Rivers to the Sea
She Seasons Contemplating Nature
2011
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9Ty13n3ETE
Videopoet: Sarah Tremlett
An experiment with contemplative videopoetry and non-duality between language and materiality. The text from women’s magazines disappears and reappears against a changing screen as coloured painting, moving between seasons, accompanied by the pulsing of actual star sounds.
SCREENINGS:
‘Ten Years of Minimal Videopoems’
TARP – Vilnius Audio Visual Poetry Film Festival, National Gallery of Art
Vilnius, Lithuania, 19 September, 2015
presentation:
Mistaken Identity
She Seasons Contemplating Nature
Some Everybodies
From the Rivers to the Sea
Two Waters
In the Turning
‘Re: Turning – rhythm and poetry film’
The South Bank Poetry International Festival (Festival of Love)
London, UK, 19 July, 2014
invited presentation:
graphic poetics, contemplative poetry film and visual philosophy
introduced by Hazel Smith
other Tremlett films:
AMAM AMMA
In the Turning
Blanks in Discourse : 05
Patterned Utterance
Soundsrite, Vol. 6, 2014
online creative arts journal of sound, text and image, founded in 2009 by Hazel Smith and Roger T. Dean, Australia
invitation from Hazel Smith
with In the Turning
https://soundsrite.uws.edu.au/soundsRiteContent/volume6/TremlettInfo.html
Liberated Words II Poetry Film Festival
3 October, 2013
The Arnolfini Art Gallery, Bristol, UK
National Poetry Day
‘Spotlight’ section
‘From Prosody to Moving Prosody’
e-Poetry conference, Kingston University, Kingston, UK
18 June, 2013
presentation paper and overview of historical poetry films
with Error, Eros
‘The Word as a Leaf’
VideoBardo – For The Earth – Por La Tierra, Buenos Aires, Argentina
27 November–1 December, 2012
multisite symposium, screenings, readings and exhibitions
invited speaker and presentation
She Seasons Contemplating Nature in the group screening and as part of the presentation,
also screening AMAM/AMMA
2011
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9Ty13n3ETE
Videopoet: Sarah Tremlett
An experiment with contemplative videopoetry and non-duality between language and materiality. The text from women’s magazines disappears and reappears against a changing screen as coloured painting, moving between seasons, accompanied by the pulsing of actual star sounds.
SCREENINGS:
‘Ten Years of Minimal Videopoems’
TARP – Vilnius Audio Visual Poetry Film Festival, National Gallery of Art
Vilnius, Lithuania, 19 September, 2015
presentation:
Mistaken Identity
She Seasons Contemplating Nature
Some Everybodies
From the Rivers to the Sea
Two Waters
In the Turning
‘Re: Turning – rhythm and poetry film’
The South Bank Poetry International Festival (Festival of Love)
London, UK, 19 July, 2014
invited presentation:
graphic poetics, contemplative poetry film and visual philosophy
introduced by Hazel Smith
other Tremlett films:
AMAM AMMA
In the Turning
Blanks in Discourse : 05
Patterned Utterance
Soundsrite, Vol. 6, 2014
online creative arts journal of sound, text and image, founded in 2009 by Hazel Smith and Roger T. Dean, Australia
invitation from Hazel Smith
with In the Turning
https://soundsrite.uws.edu.au/soundsRiteContent/volume6/TremlettInfo.html
Liberated Words II Poetry Film Festival
3 October, 2013
The Arnolfini Art Gallery, Bristol, UK
National Poetry Day
‘Spotlight’ section
‘From Prosody to Moving Prosody’
e-Poetry conference, Kingston University, Kingston, UK
18 June, 2013
presentation paper and overview of historical poetry films
with Error, Eros
‘The Word as a Leaf’
VideoBardo – For The Earth – Por La Tierra, Buenos Aires, Argentina
27 November–1 December, 2012
multisite symposium, screenings, readings and exhibitions
invited speaker and presentation
She Seasons Contemplating Nature in the group screening and as part of the presentation,
also screening AMAM/AMMA
AMAM AMMA
2010
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0IosQvFDBk
Videopoet: Sarah Tremlett
An experiment with the creation of a duality or nonduality of meaning. Appearing and disappearing letters onscreen and the sound of a heartbeat (which occasionally stops), suggest the maternal and its living force within referential language.
SCREENINGS:
‘Re: Turning – rhythm and poetry film’
The South Bank Poetry International Festival (Festival of Love)
19 July, 2014
invited presentation: graphic poetics, contemplative poetry film and visual philosophy
introduced by Hazel Smith
other Tremlett films:
Patterned Utterance
She Seasons Contemplating Nature
In the Turning
Blanks in Discourse : 05
‘The Word as a Leaf’
VideoBardo – For The Earth – Por La Tierra, Buenos Aires, Argentina
27 November– 1 December, 2012
invited speaker and paper
symposium/screening
also screening of She/Seasons/Contemplating Nature
2010
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0IosQvFDBk
Videopoet: Sarah Tremlett
An experiment with the creation of a duality or nonduality of meaning. Appearing and disappearing letters onscreen and the sound of a heartbeat (which occasionally stops), suggest the maternal and its living force within referential language.
SCREENINGS:
‘Re: Turning – rhythm and poetry film’
The South Bank Poetry International Festival (Festival of Love)
19 July, 2014
invited presentation: graphic poetics, contemplative poetry film and visual philosophy
introduced by Hazel Smith
other Tremlett films:
Patterned Utterance
She Seasons Contemplating Nature
In the Turning
Blanks in Discourse : 05
‘The Word as a Leaf’
VideoBardo – For The Earth – Por La Tierra, Buenos Aires, Argentina
27 November– 1 December, 2012
invited speaker and paper
symposium/screening
also screening of She/Seasons/Contemplating Nature
ERROR EROS
2010
https://vimeo.com/326763699
Videopoet: Sarah Tremlett
An experimental concrete videopoem with a disappearing and reappearing letter against a screen of crosses. A play between the dual meaning of the cross as both love and error.
SCREENINGS:
‘From Prosody to Moving Prosody’
e-Poetry conference, Kingston University, Kingston, UK
18 June, 2013
presentation paper and overview of historical poetry films
with She, Seasons, Contemplating Nature
‘Perception and Videoprosody’
MIX (Merging Intermedia) conference, Bath Spa University
16–18 July, 2012
Corsham Court, Corsham, Bath, UK
paper
[conceived MIX (Merging Intermedia Conference) with the poet and novelist Lucy English and co-organised the poetry film section]
‘Voices or Silences / Garsai Ar Tyla’ solo show
Cultural Communication Centre, Klaipeda, Lithuania
4– 27 June, 2009
Presentation and Solo Show, combining printed, repetitive texts and minimal videopoems
Supported by University of the Arts, London and The British Council
Other Videos
Blanks in Discourse : 03
Blanks in Discourse : 06
2010
https://vimeo.com/326763699
Videopoet: Sarah Tremlett
An experimental concrete videopoem with a disappearing and reappearing letter against a screen of crosses. A play between the dual meaning of the cross as both love and error.
SCREENINGS:
‘From Prosody to Moving Prosody’
e-Poetry conference, Kingston University, Kingston, UK
18 June, 2013
presentation paper and overview of historical poetry films
with She, Seasons, Contemplating Nature
‘Perception and Videoprosody’
MIX (Merging Intermedia) conference, Bath Spa University
16–18 July, 2012
Corsham Court, Corsham, Bath, UK
paper
[conceived MIX (Merging Intermedia Conference) with the poet and novelist Lucy English and co-organised the poetry film section]
‘Voices or Silences / Garsai Ar Tyla’ solo show
Cultural Communication Centre, Klaipeda, Lithuania
4– 27 June, 2009
Presentation and Solo Show, combining printed, repetitive texts and minimal videopoems
Supported by University of the Arts, London and The British Council
Other Videos
Blanks in Discourse : 03
Blanks in Discourse : 06
Some Everybodies
2009
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqdQgxJH4y4
Videopoet: Sarah Tremlett
An experimental videopoem, shot from a fixed camera over one year on a street corner in Bath. With slowed-down visuals and sound, and the image graphically enhanced and coloured, people move in and out of the frame, and their conversations are recorded and added out of sequence as text on screen or ‘found communal poem’.
At various points in the film it was frozen for a few seconds when tourists took pictures. These moments became 'postcards' of the site, with out-of-sequence conversations as the poetic description. Samples are shown above.
SCREENINGS:
Poets with a Video Camera: Videopoetry 1980–2020
exhibition 17 September–11 December, 2022
Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, Vancouver, Canada
curator Tom Konyves
featured in exhibition and catalogue for the period 2008–2010
also key speaker at the accompanying symposium
‘Sound in Videopoetry’
New Art Emerging : Two or Three Things One Should Know About Videopoetry
5 November, 2022
Surrey Art Gallery Media Arts Symposium, Surrey, Vancouver, Canada
key speaker
convener Tom Konyves
‘Approaching Videopoetry: Origins, Constraints, Categories’
Tom Konyves’ presentation on his theory of videopoetry
Visual and Media Studies Dept
IULM, International University of Milan, Milan, Italy, 2018
also: ‘Evaluating Videopoetry: Selection, Modification, Juxtaposition’
‘Ten Years of Minimal Videopoems’
TARP – Vilnius Audio Visual Poetry Film Festival, National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, Lithuania
19 September, 2015
presentation with:
Mistaken Identity
She Seasons Contemplating Nature
Some Everybodies
From the Rivers to the Sea
Two Waters
In the Turning
‘Between art, poetry and film: Remediating the moving digital poem’
Text on Screens, MIX Conference, 2013
16 July, 2013
Bath Spa University, Corsham Court, Corsham, UK
text reimagined session
with Patterned Utterance
London Metropolitan University
London, UK
March, 2010
invited solo presentation
philosophy in videopoetry practice
with Patterned Utterance and Blanks in Discourse : 03
‘Voice as Site’
Poetry and Voice Conference, Chichester University
Chichester, UK
June 25–27th, 2010
speaker – 40-minute lecture
Matternal Philosophy of Practice – Materiality of the Unvoiced
with Blanks in Discourse: 03 (error and public language)
Some Everybodies (both a communal-poem-as-subtitle and a language poem from the working notes of the film)
Patterned Utterance (a vocal interaction producing negative space)
‘Design and Non-Dualist Filmic Experience’
Consciousness Reframed X – experiencing design, behaving media, Macromedia, Munich
Germany
MHMK, University of Applied Sciences
10th Annual Planetary Collegium International Research Conference, Consciousness Reframed: art and consciousness in the post-biological era, experiencing Design, – behaving Media –
November, 2009
presentation paper and videopoem Some Everybodies
on-line paper and proceedings:
‘Some Everybodies – Design and non-dualist filmic experience’, Experiencing Design, behaving media, Consciousness Reframed Conference X programme, pp. 99-100, 2009.
‘Some Everybodies – Design and non-dualist filmic experience’, Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research, Intellect Books Ltd, Vol. 8 (2), 2010, pp. 139–147.
‘Some Everybodies – gathering, dominion and passing-by’
Topographies, Sites, Bodies, and Technologies, SDHS ConferenceJune 19–22, 2009
Stanford University and San Francisco, Californiapresentation
Ekleksographia, Wave 2 Issue Four [online] November, 2009
ed. Judith Skillman
ahadadabooks
https://wayback.archive-it.org/2269/20101222150138/http:/ekleksographia.ahadadabooks.com/skillman/authors/sarah_tremlett.html
Some Everybodies (full version)
Essay: ‘Matternal Philosophy – gathering, dominion and the making of a video poem’
Poem: Some Everybodies – the poem of the making of the video poem
Bury Festival of Text
Bury, UK, 12 June, 2009
curation by Dr Tony Trehy
screening and presentation as part of a reading and screening with Dr Judy Kendall, Jesse Glass and Nick Thurston
review Matt Dalby / Santiago’s Dead Wasp, 15 June, 2009:
https://wayback.archive-it.org/2269/20131025212919/http://www.ahadadabooks.com/component/option,com_jd-wp/Itemid,28/cat,9/paged,12/index.php
2009
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqdQgxJH4y4
Videopoet: Sarah Tremlett
An experimental videopoem, shot from a fixed camera over one year on a street corner in Bath. With slowed-down visuals and sound, and the image graphically enhanced and coloured, people move in and out of the frame, and their conversations are recorded and added out of sequence as text on screen or ‘found communal poem’.
At various points in the film it was frozen for a few seconds when tourists took pictures. These moments became 'postcards' of the site, with out-of-sequence conversations as the poetic description. Samples are shown above.
SCREENINGS:
Poets with a Video Camera: Videopoetry 1980–2020
exhibition 17 September–11 December, 2022
Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, Vancouver, Canada
curator Tom Konyves
featured in exhibition and catalogue for the period 2008–2010
also key speaker at the accompanying symposium
‘Sound in Videopoetry’
New Art Emerging : Two or Three Things One Should Know About Videopoetry
5 November, 2022
Surrey Art Gallery Media Arts Symposium, Surrey, Vancouver, Canada
key speaker
convener Tom Konyves
‘Approaching Videopoetry: Origins, Constraints, Categories’
Tom Konyves’ presentation on his theory of videopoetry
Visual and Media Studies Dept
IULM, International University of Milan, Milan, Italy, 2018
also: ‘Evaluating Videopoetry: Selection, Modification, Juxtaposition’
‘Ten Years of Minimal Videopoems’
TARP – Vilnius Audio Visual Poetry Film Festival, National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, Lithuania
19 September, 2015
presentation with:
Mistaken Identity
She Seasons Contemplating Nature
Some Everybodies
From the Rivers to the Sea
Two Waters
In the Turning
‘Between art, poetry and film: Remediating the moving digital poem’
Text on Screens, MIX Conference, 2013
16 July, 2013
Bath Spa University, Corsham Court, Corsham, UK
text reimagined session
with Patterned Utterance
London Metropolitan University
London, UK
March, 2010
invited solo presentation
philosophy in videopoetry practice
with Patterned Utterance and Blanks in Discourse : 03
‘Voice as Site’
Poetry and Voice Conference, Chichester University
Chichester, UK
June 25–27th, 2010
speaker – 40-minute lecture
Matternal Philosophy of Practice – Materiality of the Unvoiced
with Blanks in Discourse: 03 (error and public language)
Some Everybodies (both a communal-poem-as-subtitle and a language poem from the working notes of the film)
Patterned Utterance (a vocal interaction producing negative space)
‘Design and Non-Dualist Filmic Experience’
Consciousness Reframed X – experiencing design, behaving media, Macromedia, Munich
Germany
MHMK, University of Applied Sciences
10th Annual Planetary Collegium International Research Conference, Consciousness Reframed: art and consciousness in the post-biological era, experiencing Design, – behaving Media –
November, 2009
presentation paper and videopoem Some Everybodies
on-line paper and proceedings:
‘Some Everybodies – Design and non-dualist filmic experience’, Experiencing Design, behaving media, Consciousness Reframed Conference X programme, pp. 99-100, 2009.
‘Some Everybodies – Design and non-dualist filmic experience’, Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research, Intellect Books Ltd, Vol. 8 (2), 2010, pp. 139–147.
‘Some Everybodies – gathering, dominion and passing-by’
Topographies, Sites, Bodies, and Technologies, SDHS ConferenceJune 19–22, 2009
Stanford University and San Francisco, Californiapresentation
Ekleksographia, Wave 2 Issue Four [online] November, 2009
ed. Judith Skillman
ahadadabooks
https://wayback.archive-it.org/2269/20101222150138/http:/ekleksographia.ahadadabooks.com/skillman/authors/sarah_tremlett.html
Some Everybodies (full version)
Essay: ‘Matternal Philosophy – gathering, dominion and the making of a video poem’
Poem: Some Everybodies – the poem of the making of the video poem
Bury Festival of Text
Bury, UK, 12 June, 2009
curation by Dr Tony Trehy
screening and presentation as part of a reading and screening with Dr Judy Kendall, Jesse Glass and Nick Thurston
review Matt Dalby / Santiago’s Dead Wasp, 15 June, 2009:
https://wayback.archive-it.org/2269/20131025212919/http://www.ahadadabooks.com/component/option,com_jd-wp/Itemid,28/cat,9/paged,12/index.php
Blanks in Discourse : 06
2006
on request
Videopoet: Sarah Tremlett
An experimental videopoem with scrolling randomly typed text with accidental ‘chance’ words and the sound of breathing.
SCREENINGS:
‘Voices or Silences / Garsai Ar Tyla’ solo show
Cultural Communication Centre, Klaipeda, Lithuania
4– 27 June, 2009
Presentation and Solo Show, combining printed, repetitive texts and minimal videopoems
Supported by University of the Arts, London and The British Council
Other Videos
Blanks in Discourse : 03
Error, Eros
Bury Festival of Text
Bury, UK
30 April, 2009
curation Tom Konyves
review Matt Dalby, Santiago’s Dead Wasp, 30 April, 2009
https://santiagosdeadwasp.blogspot.com/2009/04/poetry-film-at-bury-text-festival.html
‘Matternal Philosophy, Female Subjectivity and Text in Art’
Consciousness Reframed Conference IX, Vienna
The Planetary Collegium
University of Applied Arts
3–5 July 2008
presentation
‘New Realities : Being Syncretic’ book of abstracts, p. 79
New Realities: Being Syncretic, Springer Wein, New York, 2009, pp: 292–296
Blanks in Discourse : 05, Blanks in Discourse : 06, Patterned Utterance
National Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow
1–8 February, 2008
Moscow, Russia
VideoFormat – [Linearity] National Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow
co-curated by Arjon Dunnewind / Impakt Festival
14 April– 3 May, 2009
Monkeytown
30 March, 2008
Brooklyn, New York
International Experimental Film Festival
16–17 November, 2007
Carbunari, Florean Museum, Romania
Glossolalia
7 September–1 October, 2006
Gallery Aferro
Newark, New York
Videopoesia Festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina
November 2006
Widcombe Studios
Bath, November, 2006
presentation on moving text in art
Blanks in Discourse : 03, Blanks in Discourse : 06, Blanks in Discourse : 05
2006
on request
Videopoet: Sarah Tremlett
An experimental videopoem with scrolling randomly typed text with accidental ‘chance’ words and the sound of breathing.
SCREENINGS:
‘Voices or Silences / Garsai Ar Tyla’ solo show
Cultural Communication Centre, Klaipeda, Lithuania
4– 27 June, 2009
Presentation and Solo Show, combining printed, repetitive texts and minimal videopoems
Supported by University of the Arts, London and The British Council
Other Videos
Blanks in Discourse : 03
Error, Eros
Bury Festival of Text
Bury, UK
30 April, 2009
curation Tom Konyves
review Matt Dalby, Santiago’s Dead Wasp, 30 April, 2009
https://santiagosdeadwasp.blogspot.com/2009/04/poetry-film-at-bury-text-festival.html
‘Matternal Philosophy, Female Subjectivity and Text in Art’
Consciousness Reframed Conference IX, Vienna
The Planetary Collegium
University of Applied Arts
3–5 July 2008
presentation
‘New Realities : Being Syncretic’ book of abstracts, p. 79
New Realities: Being Syncretic, Springer Wein, New York, 2009, pp: 292–296
Blanks in Discourse : 05, Blanks in Discourse : 06, Patterned Utterance
National Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow
1–8 February, 2008
Moscow, Russia
VideoFormat – [Linearity] National Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow
co-curated by Arjon Dunnewind / Impakt Festival
14 April– 3 May, 2009
Monkeytown
30 March, 2008
Brooklyn, New York
International Experimental Film Festival
16–17 November, 2007
Carbunari, Florean Museum, Romania
Glossolalia
7 September–1 October, 2006
Gallery Aferro
Newark, New York
Videopoesia Festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina
November 2006
Widcombe Studios
Bath, November, 2006
presentation on moving text in art
Blanks in Discourse : 03, Blanks in Discourse : 06, Blanks in Discourse : 05
Blanks in Discourse : 05 (aka I )
2006
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPeOAt1QB1I
Videopoet: Sarah Tremlett
A contemplative minimalist videopoem. A scrolling screen with pixels slowly reveals the letter I and then disappears on repeat, whilst we hear the sound of breathing.
SCREENINGS:
‘Re: Turning – rhythm and poetry film’
The South Bank Poetry International Festival (Festival of Love)
London, UK, 19 July, 2014
invited presentation:
graphic poetics, contemplative poetry film and visual philosophy
introduced by Hazel Smith
other Tremlett films:
AMAM AMMA
Patterned Utterance
She Seasons Contemplating Nature
In the Turning
‘Matternal Philosophy, Female Subjectivity and Text in Art’
Consciousness Reframed Conference IX, Vienna
The Planetary Collegium
University of Applied Arts
3–5 July 2008
presentation
‘New Realities : Being Syncretic’ book of abstracts, p. 79
New Realities: Being Syncretic, Springer Wein, New York, 2009, pp: 292–296
Blanks in Discourse : 05, Blanks in Discourse : 06, Patterned Utterance
Attitude Festival – Macedonia
24 December 2005–20 January, 2006
Cultural Centre Magaza (Institute and Museum)
Bitola, Macedonia
International Experimental Film Festival
16–17 November, 2007
Carbunari, Florean Museum, Romania
National Centre for Contemporary Arts
22 September –30 November, 2006
Moscow, Russia
2006
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPeOAt1QB1I
Videopoet: Sarah Tremlett
A contemplative minimalist videopoem. A scrolling screen with pixels slowly reveals the letter I and then disappears on repeat, whilst we hear the sound of breathing.
SCREENINGS:
‘Re: Turning – rhythm and poetry film’
The South Bank Poetry International Festival (Festival of Love)
London, UK, 19 July, 2014
invited presentation:
graphic poetics, contemplative poetry film and visual philosophy
introduced by Hazel Smith
other Tremlett films:
AMAM AMMA
Patterned Utterance
She Seasons Contemplating Nature
In the Turning
‘Matternal Philosophy, Female Subjectivity and Text in Art’
Consciousness Reframed Conference IX, Vienna
The Planetary Collegium
University of Applied Arts
3–5 July 2008
presentation
‘New Realities : Being Syncretic’ book of abstracts, p. 79
New Realities: Being Syncretic, Springer Wein, New York, 2009, pp: 292–296
Blanks in Discourse : 05, Blanks in Discourse : 06, Patterned Utterance
Attitude Festival – Macedonia
24 December 2005–20 January, 2006
Cultural Centre Magaza (Institute and Museum)
Bitola, Macedonia
International Experimental Film Festival
16–17 November, 2007
Carbunari, Florean Museum, Romania
National Centre for Contemporary Arts
22 September –30 November, 2006
Moscow, Russia
Blanks in Discourse : 03 (aka Mistaken Identity)
2006
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDQJSDAdL0o
Videopoet: Sarah Tremlett
An experimental minimal scrolling videopoem with text from women’s magazines interspersed with red words such as I and Home. When these hit the top of the screen an error beep occurs. This makes a random pattern like music from error.
SCREENINGS:
‘Ten Years of Minimal Videopoems’
TARP – Vilnius Audio Visual Poetry Film Festival, National Gallery of Art
19 September, 2015
Presentation and screening:
Mistaken Identity
She Seasons Contemplating Nature
Some Everybodies
From the Rivers to the Sea
Two Waters
In the Turning
Liberated Words Festival II, 2013
3 October, 2013
National Poetry Day
The Arnolfini Art Gallery, Bristol, UK
Poetry and Voice Conference, Chichester University
June 25–27th, 2010
speaker – forty minute lecture with three videos
‘Matternal Philosophy of Practice – Materiality of the Unvoiced’
with Patterned Utterance and Some Everybodies
Bath Literature Festival
The Guildhall, Bath
March, 2010
London Metropolitan University
March, 2010
philosophy in videopoetry practice
with Some Everybodies and Patterned Utterance
Modus Group and Sarah Tremlett
Project Fabrika, National Centre for Contemporary Art
Moscow, Russia
3–20 March, 2010
Blanks in Discourse 03 and Patterned Utterance
Solo show and Talk
Voices or Silences / Garsai Ar Tyla
Cultural Communication Centre, Klaipeda, Lithuania
4–27 June, 2009
printed, repetitive texts and minimal videopoem
Supported by: The University of the Arts London
and The British Council
Blanks in Discourse : 03, Blanks in Discourse : 06, Error, Eros
Overload Poetry Festival
12 September, 2009
ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image)
Melbourne, Australia
NCCA - National Center for Contemporary Art
1–8 February, 2008
Moscow, Russia
with Blanks in Discourse : 06
VideoBardo Videopoesia Festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2008
Public Pages, Poetry and Public Language conference
30 March– 1 April, 2007
Plymouth University
curation Dr Tony Trehy
BAC! 07, Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona CCCB
26 November– 20 December, 2007
BAC-CAM – After Urban
Babylon
Barcelona
video art at aniGma-2006
The 3d Novosibirsk International Festival of Digital Imaging, Animation & Video Art
Novosibirsk State Art Museum
6–15 May, 2006
Novosibirsk, Russia
Widcombe Studios, Bath,
November, 2006
presentation on moving text in art
Blanks in Discourse : 03, Blanks in Discourse : 06, Blanks in Discourse : 05
Micro Vision Macro Image
EXiS, Seoul, Korea
1–7 September, 2006
EX-NOW (6) – Hidden Narrative
Seoul Art Cinema and Space Cell
2 at Space Cell
5 at Seoul Art Cinema
1–7 September, 2006
2006
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDQJSDAdL0o
Videopoet: Sarah Tremlett
An experimental minimal scrolling videopoem with text from women’s magazines interspersed with red words such as I and Home. When these hit the top of the screen an error beep occurs. This makes a random pattern like music from error.
SCREENINGS:
‘Ten Years of Minimal Videopoems’
TARP – Vilnius Audio Visual Poetry Film Festival, National Gallery of Art
19 September, 2015
Presentation and screening:
Mistaken Identity
She Seasons Contemplating Nature
Some Everybodies
From the Rivers to the Sea
Two Waters
In the Turning
Liberated Words Festival II, 2013
3 October, 2013
National Poetry Day
The Arnolfini Art Gallery, Bristol, UK
Poetry and Voice Conference, Chichester University
June 25–27th, 2010
speaker – forty minute lecture with three videos
‘Matternal Philosophy of Practice – Materiality of the Unvoiced’
with Patterned Utterance and Some Everybodies
Bath Literature Festival
The Guildhall, Bath
March, 2010
London Metropolitan University
March, 2010
philosophy in videopoetry practice
with Some Everybodies and Patterned Utterance
Modus Group and Sarah Tremlett
Project Fabrika, National Centre for Contemporary Art
Moscow, Russia
3–20 March, 2010
Blanks in Discourse 03 and Patterned Utterance
Solo show and Talk
Voices or Silences / Garsai Ar Tyla
Cultural Communication Centre, Klaipeda, Lithuania
4–27 June, 2009
printed, repetitive texts and minimal videopoem
Supported by: The University of the Arts London
and The British Council
Blanks in Discourse : 03, Blanks in Discourse : 06, Error, Eros
Overload Poetry Festival
12 September, 2009
ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image)
Melbourne, Australia
NCCA - National Center for Contemporary Art
1–8 February, 2008
Moscow, Russia
with Blanks in Discourse : 06
VideoBardo Videopoesia Festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2008
Public Pages, Poetry and Public Language conference
30 March– 1 April, 2007
Plymouth University
curation Dr Tony Trehy
BAC! 07, Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona CCCB
26 November– 20 December, 2007
BAC-CAM – After Urban
Babylon
Barcelona
video art at aniGma-2006
The 3d Novosibirsk International Festival of Digital Imaging, Animation & Video Art
Novosibirsk State Art Museum
6–15 May, 2006
Novosibirsk, Russia
Widcombe Studios, Bath,
November, 2006
presentation on moving text in art
Blanks in Discourse : 03, Blanks in Discourse : 06, Blanks in Discourse : 05
Micro Vision Macro Image
EXiS, Seoul, Korea
1–7 September, 2006
EX-NOW (6) – Hidden Narrative
Seoul Art Cinema and Space Cell
2 at Space Cell
5 at Seoul Art Cinema
1–7 September, 2006
Blanks in Discourse : 01
2004
available on request
Videopoet: Sarah Tremlett
A contemplative text videopoem with the central text of woman OM pulsing steadily against a rushing background.
SCREENINGS:
River’s Edge Film Festival
Maiden Alley Cinema, Paducah, Kentucky, USA
17–20 August, 2006
2004
available on request
Videopoet: Sarah Tremlett
A contemplative text videopoem with the central text of woman OM pulsing steadily against a rushing background.
SCREENINGS:
River’s Edge Film Festival
Maiden Alley Cinema, Paducah, Kentucky, USA
17–20 August, 2006
Patterned Utterance
2006 and 2008
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTtFcrUNhJg
Videopoet: Sarah Tremlett
Videopoem with voice and microscopy experiment. Being given access to a scanning probe microscope the artist spoke as the microscope was scanning a piece of silicon. This caused vibrations in the reading which then was recorded on video. The white error lines are where the voice has disrupted the reading.
SCREENINGS:
‘Re: turning – rhythm and poetry film’
The South Bank Poetry International Festival (Festival of Love)
19 July, 2014
invited presentation: graphic poetics, contemplative poetry film and visual philosophy
introduced by Hazel Smith
with other author films:
AMAM AMMA
She Seasons Contemplating Nature
In the Turning
Blanks in Discourse : 05
‘Between art, poetry and film: Remediating the moving digital poem’
Text on Screens, MIX Conference, 2013
Corsham Court, Corsham, 16 July
Text reimagined session
Patterned Utterance and Some Everybodies’
‘Text, Light and Matternal Philosophy of Practice’
7 June, 2011
Chelsea Library and Old College Library
From Kinetic Works to Digital Poetics
exhibition of Lilian Lijn's cones and sketchbooks and Sarah Tremlett's poetry film Patterned Utterance.
Interview with Liliane Lijn, Chelsea Lecture Theatre
London Metropolitan University
March, 2010
solo presentation: philosophy in videopoetry practice
with Some Everybodies and Blanks in Discourse : 03
Modus Group and Sarah Tremlett
Project Fabrika, National Centre for Contemporary Art
Moscow, Russia
3–20 March, 2010
Blanks in Discourse 03 and Patterned Utterance
‘Voice as Site’
Poetry and Voice Conference, Chichester University
Chichester, UK
June 25–27th, 2010
speaker – 40-minute lecture
Matternal Philosophy of Practice – Materiality of the Unvoiced
with Blanks in Discourse: 03 (error and public language)
Some Everybodies (both a communal-poem-as-subtitle and a language poem from the working notes of the film)
Patterned Utterance (a vocal interaction producing negative space)
‘Matternal Philosophy, Female Subjectivity and Text in Art’
Consciousness Reframed Conference IX, Vienna
The Planetary Collegium
University of Applied Arts
3–5 July 2008
presentation
‘New Realities : Being Syncretic’ book of abstracts, p. 79
New Realities: Being Syncretic, Springer Wein, New York, 2009, pp: 292–296
Videos:
Blanks in Discourse : 05, Blanks in Discourse : 06, Patterned Utterance
2006 and 2008
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTtFcrUNhJg
Videopoet: Sarah Tremlett
Videopoem with voice and microscopy experiment. Being given access to a scanning probe microscope the artist spoke as the microscope was scanning a piece of silicon. This caused vibrations in the reading which then was recorded on video. The white error lines are where the voice has disrupted the reading.
SCREENINGS:
‘Re: turning – rhythm and poetry film’
The South Bank Poetry International Festival (Festival of Love)
19 July, 2014
invited presentation: graphic poetics, contemplative poetry film and visual philosophy
introduced by Hazel Smith
with other author films:
AMAM AMMA
She Seasons Contemplating Nature
In the Turning
Blanks in Discourse : 05
‘Between art, poetry and film: Remediating the moving digital poem’
Text on Screens, MIX Conference, 2013
Corsham Court, Corsham, 16 July
Text reimagined session
Patterned Utterance and Some Everybodies’
‘Text, Light and Matternal Philosophy of Practice’
7 June, 2011
Chelsea Library and Old College Library
From Kinetic Works to Digital Poetics
exhibition of Lilian Lijn's cones and sketchbooks and Sarah Tremlett's poetry film Patterned Utterance.
Interview with Liliane Lijn, Chelsea Lecture Theatre
London Metropolitan University
March, 2010
solo presentation: philosophy in videopoetry practice
with Some Everybodies and Blanks in Discourse : 03
Modus Group and Sarah Tremlett
Project Fabrika, National Centre for Contemporary Art
Moscow, Russia
3–20 March, 2010
Blanks in Discourse 03 and Patterned Utterance
‘Voice as Site’
Poetry and Voice Conference, Chichester University
Chichester, UK
June 25–27th, 2010
speaker – 40-minute lecture
Matternal Philosophy of Practice – Materiality of the Unvoiced
with Blanks in Discourse: 03 (error and public language)
Some Everybodies (both a communal-poem-as-subtitle and a language poem from the working notes of the film)
Patterned Utterance (a vocal interaction producing negative space)
‘Matternal Philosophy, Female Subjectivity and Text in Art’
Consciousness Reframed Conference IX, Vienna
The Planetary Collegium
University of Applied Arts
3–5 July 2008
presentation
‘New Realities : Being Syncretic’ book of abstracts, p. 79
New Realities: Being Syncretic, Springer Wein, New York, 2009, pp: 292–296
Videos:
Blanks in Discourse : 05, Blanks in Discourse : 06, Patterned Utterance
COMMISSIONS
Horse-Woman
Basic Bruegel Editions, Canada, April, 2025. Horse-Woman is a poetic memoir about how the author finds herself working as a fashion model, whilst trying to write and paint, in bohemian late-1970s London bedsit land. As a socially and emotionally isolated child who hardly spoke, Sarah Tremlett was given a young horse to look after, which ultimately was sold against her wishes, due to studying for A-levels. In this account of events, in order to survive, Sarah’s autistic psyche creates a mythical, ‘otherkin’ horse persona which protects and interweaves with her experiences in the fashion world.
Basic Bruegel Editions, Canada, April, 2025. Horse-Woman is a poetic memoir about how the author finds herself working as a fashion model, whilst trying to write and paint, in bohemian late-1970s London bedsit land. As a socially and emotionally isolated child who hardly spoke, Sarah Tremlett was given a young horse to look after, which ultimately was sold against her wishes, due to studying for A-levels. In this account of events, in order to survive, Sarah’s autistic psyche creates a mythical, ‘otherkin’ horse persona which protects and interweaves with her experiences in the fashion world.
Bird Poem
2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMgeXjA15so
Filmmaker: Sarah Tremlett
Poet: Helen Johnson
A collaboration and commission from Dr Helen Johnson, CAW, Brighton University, Brighton, UK. A bird on the Christmas tree becomes the motif in a family narrative.
SCREENINGS:
‘Poetry Film – Getting Started’
Wirral Poetry Festival
27 June, 2021
Sarah Wimbush, Sarah Tremlett and Isobel Turner
Mixed artists video compilation with Bird Poem
LYRA Poetry Festival, ‘Reconnections’ curation / family history poetry films screening, Bristol, UK, 17 April, 2021
‘Collaborative Methods Between Poet and Filmmaker – Helen Johnson and Sarah Tremlett’
presentation Centre for Arts and Wellbeing [online] 19 October, 2020
2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMgeXjA15so
Filmmaker: Sarah Tremlett
Poet: Helen Johnson
A collaboration and commission from Dr Helen Johnson, CAW, Brighton University, Brighton, UK. A bird on the Christmas tree becomes the motif in a family narrative.
SCREENINGS:
‘Poetry Film – Getting Started’
Wirral Poetry Festival
27 June, 2021
Sarah Wimbush, Sarah Tremlett and Isobel Turner
Mixed artists video compilation with Bird Poem
LYRA Poetry Festival, ‘Reconnections’ curation / family history poetry films screening, Bristol, UK, 17 April, 2021
‘Collaborative Methods Between Poet and Filmmaker – Helen Johnson and Sarah Tremlett’
presentation Centre for Arts and Wellbeing [online] 19 October, 2020
Selfie with Marilyn
The Visible Poetry Project Link: https://vimeo.com/411836281
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju6zhR19IHc&t=40s
Director: Sarah Tremlett
Poet: Heidi Seaborn
Poem: ‘Snapping a Selfie’
Winner of Maldito Videopoetry Festival, Albacete, Spain, 2021
A commission by the Visible Poetry Project where the filmmaker could choose a poem to make a poetry film. A yearly project for poetry month in the USA. Tremlett chose Heidi Seaborn’s poem based on Marilyn Monroe, as her daughter Hatti could do a good impression of her. The poetry film shows Hatti as Marilyn trying to recite the poem. This happens three times with errors and once when she manages it. The fourth wall is broken as she looks down to check her lines. Hatti copies Marilyn’s voice and mannerisms and we feel the same sense of pathos in the appropriation of a sexualised role or persona. At the beginning the speeded-up makeup routine is shown, and at the end the removing the makeup completes the picture.
uploaded to Vimeo VPP channel, 25 April, 2020
SCREENINGS:
Maldito Videopoetry Festival, Albacete, Spain, winners screening, 2nd and 3rd November, 2023
‘Poetry Film – an enquiry into defining a poetic genre’
DCAC (Digital Culture and Audiovisual Challenges) conference
13–14 May, 2022
Department of Audio and Visual Arts, Ionian Academy of the Ionian University, Corfu
mixed presentation of artists and
Selfie with Marilyn
DistURBANce, curation by Ian Gibbins for REELpoetry, Houston, USA, 25–27 April, 2022
https://vimeo.com/groups/302782/videos/679856492
winner Maldito videopoetry festival, Albacete, Spain, 6 October, 2021
the FILMIN platform – from October 7. Finalist works remain continuously on FILMIN
https://www.filmin.es/pelicula/maldito-festival-de-videopoesia-finalistas-v-edicion
https://malditofestival.com/v-edicion-2021/
ZEBRA poetry film club, [online] 2021
REELpoetry, Houston, USA, 24–28 February, 2021
in 15-minute video presentation including: Firewash and Lockdowning
Presenting on Poetry Film
Mary McDonald presents Poetry Film, 4 May, 2021 and 13 August, 2020
Poetry Film 101 [online]
The Microlearning Series
Maskwacis Cultural College, Alberta, Canada
organiser: Manisha Khetarpal
guest presenter
featuring Selfie with Marilyn and The Poetics of Poetry Film
ZEBRA poetry film festival, Berlin, Germany
Prism, Feminist Voices, 2020 [online]
FOTOGENIA Film Poetry and Divergent Narratives Film Festival, Mexico City, Mexico, 2020
SELECTED INTERVIEW ON MAKING THE FILM
Arts + Literature Laboratory
interviewed by Rita Mae Reese
https://artlitlab.org/all-review/making-marilyn-an-interview-with-filmmaker-sarah-tremlett
The Visible Poetry Project Link: https://vimeo.com/411836281
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju6zhR19IHc&t=40s
Director: Sarah Tremlett
Poet: Heidi Seaborn
Poem: ‘Snapping a Selfie’
Winner of Maldito Videopoetry Festival, Albacete, Spain, 2021
A commission by the Visible Poetry Project where the filmmaker could choose a poem to make a poetry film. A yearly project for poetry month in the USA. Tremlett chose Heidi Seaborn’s poem based on Marilyn Monroe, as her daughter Hatti could do a good impression of her. The poetry film shows Hatti as Marilyn trying to recite the poem. This happens three times with errors and once when she manages it. The fourth wall is broken as she looks down to check her lines. Hatti copies Marilyn’s voice and mannerisms and we feel the same sense of pathos in the appropriation of a sexualised role or persona. At the beginning the speeded-up makeup routine is shown, and at the end the removing the makeup completes the picture.
uploaded to Vimeo VPP channel, 25 April, 2020
SCREENINGS:
Maldito Videopoetry Festival, Albacete, Spain, winners screening, 2nd and 3rd November, 2023
‘Poetry Film – an enquiry into defining a poetic genre’
DCAC (Digital Culture and Audiovisual Challenges) conference
13–14 May, 2022
Department of Audio and Visual Arts, Ionian Academy of the Ionian University, Corfu
mixed presentation of artists and
Selfie with Marilyn
DistURBANce, curation by Ian Gibbins for REELpoetry, Houston, USA, 25–27 April, 2022
https://vimeo.com/groups/302782/videos/679856492
winner Maldito videopoetry festival, Albacete, Spain, 6 October, 2021
the FILMIN platform – from October 7. Finalist works remain continuously on FILMIN
https://www.filmin.es/pelicula/maldito-festival-de-videopoesia-finalistas-v-edicion
https://malditofestival.com/v-edicion-2021/
ZEBRA poetry film club, [online] 2021
REELpoetry, Houston, USA, 24–28 February, 2021
in 15-minute video presentation including: Firewash and Lockdowning
Presenting on Poetry Film
Mary McDonald presents Poetry Film, 4 May, 2021 and 13 August, 2020
Poetry Film 101 [online]
The Microlearning Series
Maskwacis Cultural College, Alberta, Canada
organiser: Manisha Khetarpal
guest presenter
featuring Selfie with Marilyn and The Poetics of Poetry Film
ZEBRA poetry film festival, Berlin, Germany
Prism, Feminist Voices, 2020 [online]
FOTOGENIA Film Poetry and Divergent Narratives Film Festival, Mexico City, Mexico, 2020
SELECTED INTERVIEW ON MAKING THE FILM
Arts + Literature Laboratory
interviewed by Rita Mae Reese
https://artlitlab.org/all-review/making-marilyn-an-interview-with-filmmaker-sarah-tremlett
Claire Climbs Everest
2017
https://vimeo.com/228666910
Director: Sarah Tremlett
Filmmaker: Howard Vause
Poet: Sam Harvey
A commission from Alastair Cook of Film Poem in conjunction with The Poetry Society
and the National Poetry Competition finalists. Paired with poet Sam Harvey for the poem ‘Claire Climbs Everest’. A relationship ends and has its own fallout.
SCREENINGS:
‘My Eyes Like Rays’, The Poetry Society, 2017
screening and poetry reading
The Poetry Society, Poetry Café, Betterton St, London, 13 October, 2017
and
Filmpoem Festival, The Depot, Lewes, 28 October, 2017
director, Alastair Cook, run by Helmi Stil
The Forger
Playwright for one-act stage play. A forger and a curator and their relationship.
Commissioned and produced by First Stage.
The Grand Opera House, Wilmington, Delaware, July 9, 10, 11, & 17, 18, 19, 1998
2017
https://vimeo.com/228666910
Director: Sarah Tremlett
Filmmaker: Howard Vause
Poet: Sam Harvey
A commission from Alastair Cook of Film Poem in conjunction with The Poetry Society
and the National Poetry Competition finalists. Paired with poet Sam Harvey for the poem ‘Claire Climbs Everest’. A relationship ends and has its own fallout.
SCREENINGS:
‘My Eyes Like Rays’, The Poetry Society, 2017
screening and poetry reading
The Poetry Society, Poetry Café, Betterton St, London, 13 October, 2017
and
Filmpoem Festival, The Depot, Lewes, 28 October, 2017
director, Alastair Cook, run by Helmi Stil
The Forger
Playwright for one-act stage play. A forger and a curator and their relationship.
Commissioned and produced by First Stage.
The Grand Opera House, Wilmington, Delaware, July 9, 10, 11, & 17, 18, 19, 1998
EARLY SHORT FILMS AND SCRIPTS
Imaginary Friend
Director, filmmaker, scriptwriter, short film, 2001
A little girl (Sarah Tremlett’s daughter Hatti) has an imaginary friend, and how it relates to family dynamics.
Ebensee Festival Der Nationen, Austria
June 2002
recognised and awarded
Edinburgh film festival, 2001
MAMABABADADA
Director, filmmaker, scriptwriter, short film, 2003
A toddler’s day from dawn to dusk, featuring Sarah Tremlett’s daughter Georgi Rees.
Reality Bites
concept and outline, 2002
shortlisted outline for a ten-minute documentary series for Carlton TV, 2002
The Forger
July 1998
Playwright for one-act stage play. A forger and a curator and their relationship.
Commissioned and produced by First Stage.
The Grand Opera House, Wilmington, Delaware, July 9, 10, 11, & 17, 18, 19, 1998
Hail Mary
Scriptwriter for black comedy
September 1997
screenplay quarter finalist in The Writers Network Screenplay and Fiction Competition Program Director: Audrey Kelly, Beverly Hills
The Removal Man
Playwright for psychological drama
July 1996
stage play a finalist in the White- Willis Theatre awards New Playwrights competition
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA.
optioned as a feature film
with Director Marcus Spiegel, New York, February 1996
Dancing
1992
Scriptwriter for TV Drama
shortlisted for the Radio Times TV and Drama Awards.
a TV film, about a lonely dance teacher who falls in love with her student.
Director, filmmaker, scriptwriter, short film, 2001
A little girl (Sarah Tremlett’s daughter Hatti) has an imaginary friend, and how it relates to family dynamics.
Ebensee Festival Der Nationen, Austria
June 2002
recognised and awarded
Edinburgh film festival, 2001
MAMABABADADA
Director, filmmaker, scriptwriter, short film, 2003
A toddler’s day from dawn to dusk, featuring Sarah Tremlett’s daughter Georgi Rees.
Reality Bites
concept and outline, 2002
shortlisted outline for a ten-minute documentary series for Carlton TV, 2002
The Forger
July 1998
Playwright for one-act stage play. A forger and a curator and their relationship.
Commissioned and produced by First Stage.
The Grand Opera House, Wilmington, Delaware, July 9, 10, 11, & 17, 18, 19, 1998
Hail Mary
Scriptwriter for black comedy
September 1997
screenplay quarter finalist in The Writers Network Screenplay and Fiction Competition Program Director: Audrey Kelly, Beverly Hills
The Removal Man
Playwright for psychological drama
July 1996
stage play a finalist in the White- Willis Theatre awards New Playwrights competition
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA.
optioned as a feature film
with Director Marcus Spiegel, New York, February 1996
Dancing
1992
Scriptwriter for TV Drama
shortlisted for the Radio Times TV and Drama Awards.
a TV film, about a lonely dance teacher who falls in love with her student.
EARLY EXHIBITIONS
Animus/Wilderness, Barbès, Glass Eye, Brooklyn, USA, 2007
Disposable Fetish, The Nunnery Gallery, Bow Arts, London, UK, 18–27 January, 2007
Cafe Gallery Projects, London, UK, 2006
Foster Art Winter Exhibition, London, UK, 2006
Medical Edge, Euroart, London, 2005
Secrets, Womens’ Work 9th Exhibition, UK, 2005 print artwork repeat series
Lamport Court Magazine, commission front and back covers, 2005
Pink, Seven UK artists at Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2004
A Fine Line, Euroart Gallery, London, UK, 2004
The Art of Love, Arndean Gallery, Cork St, London, UK, February, 2004
‘Sue Loves Dave’ mini windscreen installation
A commissioned series of paintings concerning adoption for Bath County Court, UK
Texas National ‘98: Stephen F Austin State University, Texas, USA, 1998
The Gallery off The Square, Summer Show, Narberth, Pennsylvania, USA, August, 1997
Montserrat Gallery, New York, USA, 1997
Ward-Nasse Gallery, New York, USA, 1996
Ward-Nasse Gallery, New York, USA, 1995
Axis Fine Art, Philadelphia, USA, 1995
Riverwalk Arts Festival, York, PA, USA, 1995
Art Prospect 1995, La Jolla, CA, USA, 1995
The Laing Art Exhibition: Heffer Gallery, Cambridge, UK, 1995
The Princess of Wales Hospital, Ely, UK, 1994
‘Spain in Cambridge’ The King St Gallery, Cambridge, UK, 1994
The Ringstead Gallery, Ringstead, Norfolk, UK, 1994
Heffer Gallery ‘East Anglian Artists Summer Exhibition’, Cambridge, UK, 1992
Invitation from Richard Demarco to take part in the Edinburgh Arts Expedition to
Poland, 1990
The Tabernacle Gallery, Portobello, London, UK, 1990
handpainted ‘cave painting’ lampshades, on sale in Practical Styling and Equinox, London.
1983-1991
The Old Fire Engine House, Ely, UK (two-person show), 1989
‘Women in Art’, Bowmoore Gallery, Belgravia, London, UK, 1989
Eileen Agar featured artist
Disposable Fetish, The Nunnery Gallery, Bow Arts, London, UK, 18–27 January, 2007
Cafe Gallery Projects, London, UK, 2006
Foster Art Winter Exhibition, London, UK, 2006
Medical Edge, Euroart, London, 2005
Secrets, Womens’ Work 9th Exhibition, UK, 2005 print artwork repeat series
Lamport Court Magazine, commission front and back covers, 2005
Pink, Seven UK artists at Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2004
A Fine Line, Euroart Gallery, London, UK, 2004
The Art of Love, Arndean Gallery, Cork St, London, UK, February, 2004
‘Sue Loves Dave’ mini windscreen installation
A commissioned series of paintings concerning adoption for Bath County Court, UK
Texas National ‘98: Stephen F Austin State University, Texas, USA, 1998
The Gallery off The Square, Summer Show, Narberth, Pennsylvania, USA, August, 1997
Montserrat Gallery, New York, USA, 1997
Ward-Nasse Gallery, New York, USA, 1996
Ward-Nasse Gallery, New York, USA, 1995
Axis Fine Art, Philadelphia, USA, 1995
Riverwalk Arts Festival, York, PA, USA, 1995
Art Prospect 1995, La Jolla, CA, USA, 1995
The Laing Art Exhibition: Heffer Gallery, Cambridge, UK, 1995
The Princess of Wales Hospital, Ely, UK, 1994
‘Spain in Cambridge’ The King St Gallery, Cambridge, UK, 1994
The Ringstead Gallery, Ringstead, Norfolk, UK, 1994
Heffer Gallery ‘East Anglian Artists Summer Exhibition’, Cambridge, UK, 1992
Invitation from Richard Demarco to take part in the Edinburgh Arts Expedition to
Poland, 1990
The Tabernacle Gallery, Portobello, London, UK, 1990
handpainted ‘cave painting’ lampshades, on sale in Practical Styling and Equinox, London.
1983-1991
The Old Fire Engine House, Ely, UK (two-person show), 1989
‘Women in Art’, Bowmoore Gallery, Belgravia, London, UK, 1989
Eileen Agar featured artist