Thought you might like these filmpoems recently posted onto YouTube. A started making the films after completing the BBC4 Originals documentary on Hawkwind in 2007, and last year made a 30-minute filmpoem (of 24 unrhyming sonnets) called Radio Carbon, which uses the metaphor of radiocarbon as a broadcast medium, and takes on parallel explorations of prehistoric, personal and present time, set to a hypnotic and deep-tissue reverie inducing sound and image track - filmed at the Roman mione at Box, Knowlton Church and ring in Dorset, Cairo and the pyramids, the Devil's Bridge in Wales, the coast of Clare, and elswhere. The film's had acclaimed showings at the Renoir cinema and Radio Gagarin, with festival appearances due in the summer. Here are the links -
Radio Carbon (1 of 3)
youtube.com/watch?v=D1CWojCKric&feature=channel
Radio Carbon (2 of 3)
youtube.com/watch?v=pGkHzY8YDLg&feature=channel
Radio Carbon (3 of 3)
youtube.com/watch?v=wciyJV1vJiI&feature=channel
There's also a much short filmpoem of Danebury Ring - published in a new anthology of British and Irish poets from Bloodaxe Books, called Identity Parade - filmed last autumn at the superb Hampshire hill fort.
Danebury Ring
youtube.com/watch?v=TGizJALaaG4&feature=channel
Enjoy - I hope
Tim Cumming
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