cinepoetry

In this presentation I use Ottar Ormstad’s works as an example to discuss the productive relationship between concrete poetry and film-production and demonstrate how Ormstad’s print-based work intrinsically implies motion.

Throughout the last seven years, Ormstad experimented with both moving images and letters, conceived narratives, and styles that according to him reflect a continuum of the printed work he created in the 60’s. If the continuum also holds true for concrete poetry and poetry-films in general is a question addressed in my talk.