POETRY in combination with film and video propels “REELpoetry/HoustonTX” 2021, a five-day international, curated, poetry film festival taking place online FEBRUARY 24-28, 2021 We explore this genre with poets and filmmakers working solo or collaboratively, on a cell phone or in a studio, with new or remixed or previously created work. We're inviting open submissions in four separate categories, and also featuring invited guest curators’ screenings, films about poets or a particular poem, as well as a Salon des Refusés, Q&A with poets and filmmakers, workshops, live readings, panel discussions, and more.
This year’s poetry film/ video festival invites responses to the times we are living in now from a social, environmental, political, and personal point of view. If it’s relevant, previous work can be submitted, with no restrictions on when the work was created or whether it has been shown before.
At REELpoetry/HoustonTX, you’ll see some of the world’s best video&film poems, as well as two unique offerings that no one else has.
We’ve created an on-ramp for poets with a video prompt contest that uses a simplified checklist to produce a videopoem – perfect for neophityes and the videopoetry curious…or anyone who wants to try this out.
Our Salon des Refusés provides an opportunity for everyone, and we do mean everyone, to have their work screened! If you’re not designated as an Official Selection, your work will become part of our Salon des Refusés (unless you tell us otherwise). A feature of the Paris art world that showed work excluded from the official Salon, it turned out that the Salon des Refusés exhibited many of the most influential artists that we know of today. In that spirit, we surely don’t want your work to be overlooked either.
REELpoetry/HoustonTX is a project of Public Poetry (publicpoetry.net).
Prizes will be awarded in each category.