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International Poetry Film Festival, Los Angeles: Opening Night
The third annual International Poetry Film Festival, Los Angeles, at Beyond Baroque will feature screenings of nearly 40 poetry-based films from around the world, including selections from France, India, Belgium, Ireland, and the United States. Selected by festival director Lynn Holley and Beyond Baroque, the films will be screened in The Wanda Coleman Theater at Beyond Baroque.
This year’s Opening Night features a special screening of Life is a Saxophone, a documentary that captures legendary poet Kamau Daáood as he considers survival as an oral poet in an electronic age, filmed in 1984 and shot in 16 mm. After the screening, hear from S. Pearl Sharp, Roberto Miguel Miranda, and Gale Fulton Ross in a conversation and Q&A moderated by poet Benin Lemus.
In addition to the feature documentary, the Opening Night event includes screenings of three Official Selection poem-based films accepted to this year’s festival.
Opening Night is FREE for Beyond Baroque members.
The official schedule for the festival’s program on Saturday, April 27, 1-6 PM, will include a wide variety of experimental, narrative, documentary, and animated poem-based films. This year, we are excited to debut a short poetry film using components of AI made by Mike Gioia, from Blank Verse Films. In The Mike Kelly Gallery, we’ll showcase Photo News, a project by visual artist Jody Zellen composed of montages of newspaper headline fragments combined with images of news or nature. Food and drinks will be available on-site. For more about selected films, tickets, and previous winners of the festival, visit poetryfilmfestival.org
Event Links
Tickets: https://go.evvnt.com/2372280-0
