As part of MIF’s Poet Slash Artist, HOME has curated a corresponding film season to look at inter-disciplinary practice and figures who overlap between the worlds of art and poetry.
Curated by Rachel Hayward, Head of Film and Jason Wood, Artistic Director: Film and Culture
Poet Slash Artist brings together a wide array of work by poets who make visual art and visual artists who work with words. With an exhibition at HOME and specially commissioned new work installed in public spaces across the city (check back in June for locations and a map), this far-reaching project explores the current and future connections between poetry and the visual arts – forging new links between them across cultures, continents, languages and generations.
Previously in this season
Cinema
La Belle et la Bête
A hapless merchant, lost in a dark forest, seeks refuge in the castle of a hideous monster who threatens to kill him unless one of…
Cinema
The Beaches of Agnès
French auteur Agnès Varda, director of Cleo from 5 to 7 and The Gleaners and I takes us on an autobiographical journey through her cinematic…
Cinema
Heart of a Dog
A moving, kaleidoscopic film essay and meditation on life and death in which artist Laurie Anderson reflects on the deaths of her husband, mother and…
Cinema
Where I Am is Here: Margaret Tait at 100
Margaret Tait (1918-1999), stands out as one of Scotland’s most innovative and stridently independent filmmakers. This event is a screening of 6 of her short…
Cinema
Double Bill/ Looking for Langston + Derek
Award-winning British filmmaker Isaac Julien’s lyrical and poetic consideration of the life of revered Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes plus Julien’s collaboration with Tilda Swinton.
Cinema
Jonas Mekas: The Sixties Quartet
A selection of shorts from Lithuanian-American filmmaker, poet and artist Jonas Mekas, who is seen by many as ‘the godfather of American avant-garde cinema.'