Interesting connection between haiku and abstract painting!
In this short film, painter Maria Pierides describes how her current “Lipstick Project” came about and makes the connection between haiku and her abstract paintings! The film was created for the VAA International Online Spring Exhibition, the Curator Awards Presentation.
The exhibition site and Curators Awards can be found here
Happy International Haiku Poetry Day 2020!
And what a day it was! The Haiku Foundation announced the Touchstone Awards, hosted HaikuLife, the haiku Film Festival, and administered the collaborative poem “EarthRise” on the theme “Nurse.” And everyone had fun!
I contributed a video haibun, “Noir,” to HaikuLife as well as five poems..
My haibun triptych “Noir,” published in MacQueen’s Quinterly, made into Video haibun “Noir,” in collaboration with Rob Ward, was presented as part of HaikuLife on IHPD! Many thanks to Rob Ward, after-effects artist and animator, for bringing the stills to life, and Alex Menzies for permission to use his haunting piece Gretchen from his composition Faust for this video.
http://www.thehaikufoundation.org/omeka/items/show/5991
Enjoy!
My video ‘Lake Constance,’ filmed on location, with haiku by yours truly, and edited by Rob Ward, is now featured as part of The Haiku Foundation HaikuLife FilmFest 2018! (with the sound of waves and wind)
swaying branch
the hummingbird here
and not here
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moment of stillness
just before the light
changes
From In the Garden of Absence (Fruit Dove Press, 2012), my book of haiku and micro poetry.
The ‘hummingbird’ poem is also included in my film presentation for HaikuLife ‘Haiku Journey‘ organised by The Haiku Foundation and shown together with several other entries to the event on International Haiku Poetry Day, April 17, 2015. The event was an enormous heart-warming, global literary celebration of haiku, and if you missed it, you can catch up through the blog posts on the THF site and the links here
At the beginning of this year, I wrote about my visit to Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge, to view their collection of paintings by Alfred Wallis. At that time, I was inspired to put together a presentation for the HaikuLife FilmFest, organised by The Haiku Foundation. The presentation, Haiku Journey, was shown on International Haiku Poetry Day, April 17, 2015, together with a good number of other films. It is now archived on the site here.
Poetry and arrangement: Stella Pierides; film editing: Rob Ward
Images: by kind permission of Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge
Enjoy!
In 2015, The Haiku Foundation celebrates haiku on a global scale, encompassing the work and achievements of haiku poets from around the world. From this year on, International Haiku Poetry Day (IHPD), replacing the THF’s National Haiku Poetry Day, becomes the biggest celebration of haiku poetry word wide. On April 17 each year, haiku poets, haiku poetry fans, and organisations will be getting together under the auspices of the THF in order to honour the depth, reach, creativity, and joy of the genre we have come to love.
For this year, the Foundation has organised a series of events, from local haiku readings and celebrations, over HaikuLife, a FilmFest showcasing work submitted by individuals and organisations, to EarthRise, a rolling collaborative poem.
On April 17th, 2015, from 12:01 A.M. at the International Date Line, a wave of haiku contributions begins and rolls throughout the day, with poets offering their haiku at dawn their local time. The finished collaboration, on the theme of Light, will be permanently archived on the THF site.
I am very much looking forward to the day, and the many exciting contributions from poets around the globe. I will be setting my alarm, and posting my own haiku to the inaugural EarthRise.
I am also delighted that the FilmFest, HaikuLife, features a short film of my haiku together with paintings by Alfred Wallis (from the excellent Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge, collection). I created this film with the (much appreciated) support of Rob Ward, After-Effects Artist and Animator. Besides my presentation, there are at least 12 other contributions by haiku poets and organisations, amounting to almost 90 minutes of film.
I hope you will be able to join in the fun on IHPD.
For times, url, and other information about HaikuLife and EarthRise, as well as the local (to the US) readings, please visit the Troutswirl blog at The Haiku Foundation site.
Update April17, 2015
Happy International Haiku Poetry Day, folks! Contribute your poems to EarthRise, watch the HaikuLife films, go to the readings, enjoy the day!
My short film, Haiku Journey, is shown today — together with a number of other films — and will be permanently archived on the Haiku Foundation site. Please see here
For an introduction to the Foundation HaikuLife project, and the list of all projects shown, please click
spring morning
she presses her palm against
the wall
.
The Wall (Die Wand), is a film directed by Julian Roman Pölsler (Austria/Germany, 2011)
and based on Marlen Haushofer’s (1963) best-selling eponymous novel. I have not read the
novel, though now that I saw the film, I am going to.
.
I mention it here, not only because it is a great film I just watched, but also because it connects
with my own interests and forthcoming collection “In the Garden of Absence.”
It is on the same theme of loneliness and the development(or not) of the capacity to be creatively
alone.
.
In the story, right from the beginning, a woman on a trip to the Alps and shortly after she is
separated from the couple she is travelling with, is mysteriously trapped inside a transparent
wall surrounding her hunter’s lodge. While there is a big and beautiful area inside this wall –
including mountain peaks, meadows, a lake, forests – there is no contact with the outside
world and no way of knowing whether it still exists.
.
Without human companionship and with only her own resources to survive, her will to live
is tested. Through her sense of responsibility and, I would say, inner strength, she is able to
move towards a realization of the nature of her predicament and acceptance of loneliness,
to an understanding of the human condition in general and the role love plays in it.
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A Robinson Crusoe without happy endings, but with an insight that goes to the heart
of the human condition. I look forward to the book.
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The film’s slow-moving, original and atmospheric cinematography enhances the story
and provides the right background for the perfect performance by Martina Gedeck.
A thought-provoking, emotionally demanding as well as rewarding film.
.
For a summary of the book see here
and film review here
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spring morning
she presses her palm against
the wall
.
Stella Pierides 