FLIGHT IN FOTOGENIA, Mexico!

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 –  The Unexhibited, available in 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/