fraidy cats
– videopoetry by j.p. sipilä?
and then i only could see me
recycling to and from
a to b b to a
they never were the same
useful selves
my next videopoem will be a bit different; it’s a reading of Eeva-Liisa Manners poem Kontrapunkti. so that will be only available in finnish.
right after that i’ll start working on something that is called now “Useful Selves”. At the moment I can say that it won’t be finished before september.
generally agreed
only an element to my identity
put on whatever you have
fear of early death
old things see different
glimpse of hope once possible
early escape fear of living
“Fairy Distortions”
“Fairy Distortions”
poem & video by
j.p. sipilä
music:
“Oktoberzon”
by Tape & Violet
2007
about “Fairy Distortions”
It has been only ten months now when I first started to make videopoems. It’s amazingly short time but when I actually think about it, it’s not. So far I have made five videopoems or actually four ’cause “Fairy Distortions” has a finnish twin “vääristymien oikeutuksia”.
The whole idea for “Fairy Distortions” started when I saw a dutch band called This Leo Sunrise playing in Utrecht (where they are from). Somehow their music hit me – strong! I don’t know if it the moody post-folk or the twisted use of their melodies that really made me think: this is the band I want to perform for my videopoetry.
I saw them play in September 2006 so it has been a while now. Since then I have made three videopoems in finnish and got some really good feedback from them but more importantly I am always learning more possibilities that videopoetry has. I mean the use of poetic language has more and more possibilities all the time – thanks to these new ways to make poetry.
So… “Fairy Distortions” combines sound, image and poetry together and by doing so it gives a poem new dimensions, maybe a new aesthetic experience or as canadian videopoet Tom Konyves says “The object is to create a work which uses poetry in a new medium to create a new kind of poetic experience”
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”What I think is that you start with materials. You start with matter, not rules.” – Clark Coolidge.
”The poets relation to language is one of listening or hearing not just speaking or writing.” – William Carlos Williams
