DREAM SCORING: POETRY AND VIDEO COLLAGE
Ages 16-29
Fall 2021, Online
In this distance learning workshop, student fellows will create videos that unite poetry with moving images in unexpected ways, exploring and testing the relationship between language and pictures, considering which comes first, and how their connection can expand and contract, with text informing visuals and vice versa. They’ll look at examples like Chris Marker’s La Jetée and Abbas Kiarostami’s 24 Frames, and be encouraged to share their own resources and inspirations with the group. As they develop their own projects, fellows will experiment with ‘scoring’ their poetry to be read aloud, discussing the importance of breath and space. And they’ll carry that work into collages of moving images, discontinuous clips that exploit unexpected juxtapositions, and implicitly explore motion and stillness, as well as sequencing in time. They’ll pay special attention to nearly imperceptible movements, to peripheries, evoking dream-like narratives and their associative ways of linking images. And they’ll discover how poetry can help to guide the viewer through these complex spaces. Each will create an original short video, and their work will be shared through a virtual exhibition and on the program website. Limited to 8 student fellows.
Caroline Preziosi is a writer and artist from Baltimore. She has spent the last few years writing and teaching, and is currently pursuing an MFA in Writing at School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is interested in exploring memory––the imperceptible and transparent moments of recalling image and experience.
