Workshop: “Frames and Stanzas” with Lynne Sachs
Poetry Society of America
June 6, 2023 and June 13, 2023, 6:30-9:30pm
https://poetrysociety.org/events/workshop-frames-and-stanzas-with-lynne-sachs
Workshop: “Frames and Stanzas” with Lynne Sachs
Poetry Society of America
119 Smith Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
June 6, 2023 and June 13, 2023
6:30-9:30pm
Join us for this multimedia investigation of how sounds, texts, media images, home-made movies, and sensory experiences come together in a film-poem. Filmmaker and poet Lynne Sachs will share her insights and experiences in bridging poetry and cinema, with a particular focus on large-scale public events and our internal responses to them. Participants will explore and expand the intersections between still/moving images and written/spoken words, writing poems in conjunction with shooting video and taking photographs. Sachs will screen some of her recent film-poems and excerpts from her feature, “Tip of My Tongue” (2017), as examples and prompts for participants to create their own original work. Creative collaboration between participants will be a vital part of the workshop, and Sachs will carefully pair participants based on a questionnaire sent after registering.
Note: This is not a tech-focused workshop (though some basic tech instruction will be shared). The only equipment required is a smartphone with a camera.