Our 2012 Season, which has been produced in partnership with BEST AMERICAN POETRY 2011, opens with Scott Wenner’s tense dream-time remake of David Lehman’s “French Movie.”
It's a new hybrid form: a short film (usually less than 3 minutes in length) that treats a great contemporary poem as a script. It's a professionally produced, fully imagined, HD experience designed to introduce new audiences to poetry's unique thrills.
Motionpoems, Inc. is a nonprofit production company based in Minneapolis, incubated by HDMG Post Audio & Effects, and co-directed by animator / producer Angella Kassube and poet Todd Boss.
OUR MISSION is to broaden the audience for poetry by turning great contemporary poems into short films for online, broadcast, and big-screen distribution. We introduce talented video artists to some of America's best living writers, step aside, then make the resulting videos free to subscribers. Completed films go on to screen at film festivals, art cinemas, libraries, schools, bookstores, and elsewhere.
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Coming soon
February: Erin Belieu | Amy Schmitt
April: Mark Strand | Juan Delcan
May: David Wagoner | Adam Tow
June: Richard Wilbur | Faith Eskola
July: Jane Hirshfield | Jeff Saunders
August: Bob Hicok | Joanna Kohler
September: Bridget Lowe | Angella Kassube
Our current 2012 Season is produced in partnership with BEST AMERICAN POETRY 2011 (Scribner).
