Excited to be reading from my poetic memoir Horse-Woman (with screening of FLIGHT the poetry film from the prologue to the book) at the lovely location of the John Sebastian Lightship, Bristol, for Poetry Film Club on May 20th.
 Here is a link to book tickets and find out. more:
https://www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/the-john-sebastian-lightship/tue-20-may-bristol-poetry-film-club-129550#e12955


Hope to see you there! 

​I am over the moon to announce that my poetic memoir Horse-Woman will be launched at Frye Festival, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada on Thursday 24th April. It is part of the new publication series by Basic Bruegel Editions – the brainchild of leading video poets Valerie LeBlanc and Daniel H Dugas. They tell me this is Atlantic Canada's biggest literary happening and takes place over ten days of events.
https://events.frye.ca/sites/frye
'Horse-Woman is a poetic memoir about 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 of elderly parents, 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.'
To order copies of the book (Canada, US etc.)
https://boutique.basicbruegel.com/index.php/product/horse-woman/
 
For direct orders for paper copies from the UK please go to contact details at poemfilmeditions.com

Really pleased that Nocturne for a Lighterman will be screened online at REELpoetry, Houston in the Video Jukebox section on Monday 31st March. This is part of my TREE project, but mainly I am thrilled to have a sublime soundscape by Marc Neys, someone I haven’t worked with before, strangely. It is perfect for the subject matter and suggests all the layered moods and content superbly. NFAL is also an ekphrastic poetry film, being a dialogue between Whistler and his painting Nocturne in Blue and Gold – Old Battersea Bridge (c. 1872–5) and one of my ancestors.

Thrilled to hear that Flight has been selected for Helios Sun Poetry Film Festival in Mexico City. It is on from the 9th-15th December and should be a wonderful event. I am hoping to go at some point in the future... It makes a great follow on from FOTOGENIA. They say:'Helios Sun Poetry Film Festival aims to explore the boundaries between cinema, visual arts and poetry as hybrid forms of creative expression. ...We believe that moving images are a form of poetic writing that allow us to understand and elaborate expanded language codes, symbols and imaginary through which we can connect with people.' Absolutely. Have a great event. Felicitaciones y Abrazo!!!
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Exciting videopoetry curation by Alejandro Thornton at avant-garde Poetics of Resistance, POSVERSO Biennial Argentina, 6 December.  Artists include: Oskar Fischinger (Alemania), Walter Ruttmann (Alemania), Augusto de Campos (Brasil), Decio Pignatari (Brasil), Tom Konyves (Canadá), Montenegro-Fischer (UK-Chile), Sarah Tremlett with Lucy English(UK), Tulio Restrepo (Colombia), Tatiana Gaviola (Chile), Belén Gache, Gonzalo Aguilar (author of leading publication on Argentinian Cinema), Ivana Vollaro, Rubén Grau, Ro Barragán, Rosa Gravino, Paula Pellejero, Facundo Díaz y Alejandro Thornton amongst others’. Over the moon to be in such stellar company with Solstice Sol Invictus.
 
Really a very exciting collection of works, and I wish I could be there to see a rare example of Walter Ruttmann’s abstract cinematic films. I am honoured that my poetry film Solstice Sol Invictus has been included in this really impressive group and particularly with the legendary artist Augusto de Campos. I created the concept (words, visuals, sound) of the film for Lucy English’s The Book of Hours project, with the theme of course registering the mediaeval and reflective, temporal feel of the original Books of Hours, but with the sun and its passage through the year as a central theme bringing – hope, faith and regeneration. I came up with the (verbal, visual and sound) concept and wrote the first four verses and Lucy the second.
 
I also made another poetry film for this project (a natural pair) entitled Summer Solstice (with old 35 mm footage of a California beach). Solstice Sol Invictus effectively uses the screen as a moving canvas, showing the changes in light as the sun passes through the seasons. I also have referenced earlier painters and their solar depictions and in the latest version I have included these at the end.
 
​Historical paintings that influenced this work include: Max Ernst’s Black Sun 1927–8; Vincent Van Gogh’s Sower with Setting Sun (1888); Ambassador of Autumn, 1922 by Paul Klee, which has haunted me with its tonal, horizontal gradations, also influencing the dynamic structure of Mr Sky, 2018, (another poetry film with Lucy English) and a later abstract landscape Spiral Motif in Green, Violet, Blue and Gold: The Coast of the Inland Sea, 1950 by British artist Victor Pasmore (1908–98).

POSVERSO on till 20th December with many more events.
https://posversobienal.com.ar/
 
https://liberatedwords.com/2024/11/30/poetics-of-resistance-posverso-biennial-videopoetry-curation-by-alejandro-thornton/

SO THRILLED that Flight has been included in the major film festival FOTOGENIA, Mexico City this year. I am particularly please since it is both my (autobiographical) poem and film.
 
Flight represents a new direction in my work. It is a very personal poem and poetry film about my childhood relationship with my mother, who suffered depression, though I didn’t know it at the time. We rattled around in a large, cold house – my father’s dream, bought at auction – but there were parts she never visited in her entire life. I cleaned and looked after the house and garden to help her, from the age of five.

​The visual imagery also includes samples of my neo-expressionist paintings and ‘Floor’ carpet, floor and dust sculpture from the 1980s. The poem is also inspired by an ekphrastic poem I wrote about Lanyon’s work ‘The Last Green Mile’ (Transitional : Otter Gallery Anthology, Chichester University, 2015). ‘Flight’ is from the forthcoming commissioned collection –  Horse-Woman, available from Basic Bruegel Editions, Canada, April, 2025.

FOTOGENIA runs from November 21st to the 30th – 9 days, 15 themed screenings, online and performances!! Flight is in Programme 2.  See Liberated Words for a very brief overview of selected performance-based poetry films, and short films including Chantal Caron, Marissa Brown, Helmie Stil, Ana Pantic, Paula Alves, Coraline Claude, and Mark Niehus, Martin Gerigk, David Belotti, Fernando Mol and Ale Nuño.
https://liberatedwords.com/2024/11/16/fotogenia-6-nine-glorious-days-of-wonder-talent-and-imagination-in-mexico-city/
 

https://www.fotogeniafilmfestival.org/