This past summer, while packing up my life in Canada for a year of studies in the UK, I participated in a collaboration conceived by Millefiore Clarkes.
Four videographers were asked to shoot footage of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island over a 24 hour period and then pass the camera on to someone whose perceptions of the town were of interest to them. I passed my camera off to John Mackenzie, my favourite living Canadian poet. Actually, he is not my favourite living Canadian poet. Zach Wells is my favourite living Canadian poet. John is my favourite, living or dead.
But I digress.
A total of 12 videographers were involved and the resulting ‘communal gaze’ is 24 minutes well spent.
Today I am in Bristol meeting with a technician to see about getting my machines outfitted with video editing software. I promised Zach Wells over a year ago that I would reply to one of his poems in video form. My response is overdue.
Collaborations often have remarkable and unanticipated impacts on subsequent work.
http://www.onethousandflowers.tv/
http://www.poetrypei.com/audio/the-oracle-speaks-o…
http://www.zachariahwells.blogspot.com/
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/wells/ind…
