Really thrilled that Colm and Paul have selected Mr Sky for their regular poetry film sessions. It was made in 2018 and since they have just included Nocturne for a Lighterman in their celebrated poetry film festival I would like to mention that these films both share an artist's investigation into colour in film. Painting with film – a real joy.

I am really happy that my film Nocturne for a Lighterman (Nocturno para un lanchero) will be screened at VideoBardo Festival on the 17 November at the National Library in Buenos Aires.  
https://videobardo1.wixsite.com/my-site-1/copia-de-inicio

Alongside other poetic presentations and the launch of the publication Imágenes del Bardo by Javier Robledo himself (huge congratulations!) there are just two videopoetry sections: Argentinian Videopoetry (11 artists) and International videopoets (19) and so I feel very honoured to be among such a small group of creative souls. I also think this works very well for the audience and the festival and wish I could be there. It is one of the most experimental and truly visually and verbally poetic festivals out there. Being invited to present at VideoBardo in 2012 remains one of my most significant videopoetry memories.

 This year there were 5 locations, one being Instants Festival in Marseille on the 19th of October. On the 25th of October, and the 3rd and the 7th of November the events took place at different locations in Argentina.
Fortunately for us, the 3rd November event is also on YouTube. Here, Javier Robledo introduces himself, actor Gabriel Espinosa and José María Martinez
reciting poetry from a small boat in the Paraná Delta, Argentina. This is a perfect, relaxing invitation to enjoy Argentinian poetry, and also practice Spanish at the same time.

OBheal, run by leading Irish poets and poetry filmmakers Paul Casey and Colm Scully will be hosting their annual poetry film festival on Sunday 2nd November. I am very proud and pleased to say Nocturne for a Lighterman is one of the 30 finalists. It was a dark neo-symbolist ekphrastic experiment with the painting Nocturne in Blue and Gold, Old Battersea Bridge by James McNeill Whistler.  I am particularly happy because the soundscape is by Marc Neys, whom I have admired for so many years.  Finally, the right project for him came along. This year the OBheal is coming from Cork Arts Theatre, Carrolls Quay, Cork – a great venue. If you get the chance, please do go, where poetry really inhabits every part of this memorable experience and the city itself. And on Thursday Colm will be hosting a workshop on Zoom. Don't miss it!!!

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Looking forward to reading from Horse-Woman (my poetic prose memoir with paintings, about fashion modelling and being an artist and writer, living in a bohemian bedsit in London)! Come along 

‘Poetry Film Club returns to Bristol on 16th September. @sarahtremlett will be reading from her latest publication ’Horse-Woman’, and screening ‘Flight’, the poetry film from the prologue to the book. Plus Rebecca Rezakhani-Hilton and @chaucercameron 
It‘ll be a great evening with lots of discussion in a relaxed venue.’  –

​NOTE: Women and Bodies a linking theme 😊
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Courtesy of the wonderful Satellite of Love https://solpoetry.org.uk/satellite-of-love-hosts-poetry-film-club-4

TICKETS
https://www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/john-sebastian-lightship/tue-16-sep-satellite-of-love-host-poetry-film-club-136816#e136816
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See images from the book below and also images from modelling

Can't quite believe that Villanelle has been shortlisted for an award at the Women over Fifty Film Festival. The brainchild of BBC scriptwriter, playwright and short filmmaker Nuala Sullivan, this is not only a creative film festival addressing gender and ageism, but also should be applauded for their wider activities. Moving Pictures is one of WOFFF's projects a 'mini-festival reaching elder care homes, community centres and charities across London and the wider UK through a programme of short films and creative activities'. 

Thirty submissions have been shortlisted and I am really looking forward to going to Lewes for September 13th to watch them all. Villanelle is both a short film that developed over time, with possibilities that came my way, and my two amazingly talented daughters; and also, at the time it was made, a disgust at Harvey Weinstein and a solidarity with the MeToo movement that had begun a few years before.

​Now, of course, as I write, we are faced with Trump, Epstein, and also John Casablancas who ran Elite Model Agency ... I was a model a long time ago, at the end of the 1970s (see my memoir Horse-Woman) and I had heard stories even then about Casablancas. I also knew that girls would be invited to places such as Japan and then find they had become offered as escorts and financially couldn't return home. At my agency I turned down such an offer from a Japanese agency (seeing what could potentially happen). I would like to now dedicate this film to Sacramento-born Virginia Giuffre who unfortunately died in April (apparently by suicide, but of course this is being questioned) and whose untiring work in addressing sex trafficking and the 'billionaire playboy club' should be commemorated – ideally in a more permanent form. 

Please see the shortlist below for all the finalists.
 wofff.co.uk/2025/08/judges-shortlist-2025/  
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Many thanks to Dr Helen Johnson for this lovely opportunity to present Horse-Woman at CAW, at Brighton University, especially alongside Sandra, whose work sounds fascinating and extremely valuable. Anyone interested in this area between the arts, psychology and wellbeing please jump in; all voices welcome  :))))