This presentation took place in Aalto Media Factory on February 2015. The participants to the Video Poetry Marathon did video poems re using materials from the archives.

2. TERVETULOA

3. 10.15hs Kick-off by Mariana
10.45hs Choose a poet/poem
Start working in the video poem
13.Hs Lunch time
14hs Continue working
17hs Dinner time
18hs Showing the end results + discussion about the process,
the collaboration, the dialogue between the poets and the video
artists. Discuss possible venues and contexts to show them
Bye bye! Thanks!
Day Program

4. What will
be do?
1 VIDEO POEM
1video maker
+
1writer
= 1team

5. WHAT IS
VIDEO
POETRY?
It is a form of video art that mix poetry text with acoustic and visual elements.
http://www.thecontinentalreview.com/quoi/ http://www.videopoesia.com/index.php?lang=eng&op=home

6. Where
are the
poems
coming
from?

7. Where
are the
videos
coming
from?
SLS
+
TVC
(EUScreenXL)
+
Online
digital
archives
Screenshot from Video from The Society of
Swedish Literature in Finland.

8. Music
& sound
effects?
Free Sound
(Yle arkisto)
+
Online
Free
Music
Archives

9. An
example?
HARE

10. more
TWENTY
SECOND
FILM POEM

11. SLS ’s videos:
The Society of Swedish Literature in Finland
• The oldest are from the 30s.
• The newest are from the 50s.
• There are white and black and color ones.
Themes:
• How to? In which something is described. How to do beer?
• Typical Finish dances
• Landscapes in Finland
• Winter fishing
• Estonian Playing: adults and kids.
Vimeo and Finna have these videos is lower resolution.
• Finna-> video-> organisation-> SLS-> the list of 18 video is there.

12. TVC’s videos:
Catalonian Television
These videos have the topic in the file name.
Mostly color films.
We got permission only for this use, but the videos cannot be downloaded
freely. Do not use them after this trial, delete them from your computers.
Themes:
landscapes, cities, ruins
musician playing and luthier making instruments
doctors and elderly peopl
biodiversity
storm
Please, write down the
name of each piece of
material you use,
because you need
them at the end of the
videos.

13. Online digital resources
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Free_media_resources/Video

14. More online digital resources
Pond5
Kallio archive

15. In the hard disk
This presentation (with the links to the
archives)
TVC and SLS archive materials
A folder with logos that the videos need to
have. One logo for the CC license. If you want
to change the licence, go to Creative Commons
The pdf with the poems and the translations
Do not delete
nothing from
this hard disk!!

16. We are here
to assist you!
Come to us!
Mariana Salgado, Taku Kaskela & Roxana Crisólogo

17. Questions?
Mariana Salgado & Roxana Crisólogo