Vancouver poet, author, musician and media artist Heather Haley returns to Pacific Cinémathèque for our annual special evening devoted to video poetry (also known as poetry film or cine-poetry), a hybrid creative form that integrates verse with media art visuals produced by a camera or a computer. This year’s dynamic and diverse program showcases more than thirty short films and videos from Canada and around the world.

Bios

Heather Haley is a Vancouver poet, author, musician and artist who pushes boundaries by creating across disciplines, genres and media. She is the author the poetry collections Sideways (2003) and Three Blocks West of Wonderland (2009), director of the video poems Dying for the Pleasure (2003) and Purple Lipstick (2006), and as a musical artist has released a CD of spoken-word songs, Princess Nut (2008). Her poetry has been published in numerous journals and anthologies, her video poems screened at many international film festivals, and she has performed her poetry and music around the world.

Gabrielle Everall's first book of poetry Dona Juanita and the love of boys was published in 2007. She is currently studying for a PhD in creative writing at the University of Western Australia. Gabrielle has been published in The Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry, Going Down Swinging, Cordite, The Sleeper's Almanac, Shortfuse: A Global Anthology of New Fusion Poetry and A Salt Reader. She performed her poetry at the The Big Day Out, Putting On An Act, The National Young Writer's Festival, the Emerging Writer's Festival, and the Overload Poetry Festival, where her poems were projected onto the wall of Federation Square in Melbourne.

Part I

My Story Is Not My Own · 2009. Steven McCabe/Toronto, ON
nature nature · 2005. Hilda Daniel/New York, NY
this might be · 2009. J.P. Sipilä/Turku, Finland
friendship · 2009. J.P. Sipilä/Turku, Finland
Someone Is Watching Me · 2004. Deniz Berkin/Ottawa, ON
Vita Means Life · 2009. Gabrielle Ann Everall/Fremantle, Australia
Free Soil: The Poetry of Rudyard Fearon · 2008. Mathew James Chromecki/Tokyo, Japan
White City · 2006. Avi Dabach/Tel Aviv, Israel
praxis: Twillingate · 2007. Monica Kidd/St. John’s, NL
Cellophane Girl · 2007. Alain Delannoy, Pamela Mansbridge/Winnipeg, MB
The Nightly City · 2009. Mani Nilchiani/Tehran, Iran
From an Upstairs Window · 2009. Penn Kemp/London, ON
Altar Ego · 2009. Penn Kemp/London, ON
Feria: a poempark · 2008. Thierry Collins/Montreal, QC
1 new msg · 2009. Harlene Weijs/Montreal, QC
Pure Moment · 2009. Harlene Weijs/Montreal, QC
Confused Rain · 2008. Nam June Paik, Clint Enns/Winnipeg, MB
The M at the End of the Earth · 2008. Kate Walker, Cliff Fell/Nelson, New Zealand
Missed Aches · 2009. Joanna Priestley/Portland, OR Intermission (15 mins.)

Intermission (15 mins)

Part II

IN PERSON: Gabrielle Everall from Australia

Enter the Chrysanthemum · 2009. Fiona Lam/Vancouver, BC
Chanson d'amour (this is not a lovesong) · 2008. Alexandre Braga/Lisbon, Portugal
Destinos · 2007. Antonio Suárez/Vancouver, BC
Hey F***Face · 2008. Amber Dawn/Vancouver, BC
A Circular Walk · 2007. Marianne Holm Hansen/London, UK
What Did You Do Boy? · 2009. Janet Rogers/Victoria, BC
Financially Strapped · 2008. Katrin Bowen/Vancouver, BC
I Cannot Speak Without Shaking · 2007. Todd Herman/San Francisco, CA
mo(u)rning rituals · 2004. Dana Cooley/Winnipeg, MB
Ursula’s Matter · 2007. Salmon Avalanche/Vancouver, BC
Spurned · 2009. Joe Boyce Burgess/Vancouver, BC
Empty Parking · 2005. Joe Boyce Burgess/Vancouver, BC
Harmonics of Trees · 2009. Mary Russell, Gerard Wozek, Xhengis Aliu/Chicago, IL