October 20, 2005
For Immediate Release
Pacific Cinémathèque presents:

See the Voice: Visible Verse 2005

7:30pm November 10, 2005
Pacific Cinémathèque, 1131 Howe Street, Downtown Vancouver

VANCOUVER — Video poetry takes centre stage for the annual Visible Verse celebration. Vancouver poet Heather Haley curates another special evening devoted to video poetry, featuring works by local, national and international artists. Also known as poetry-film or cine-poetry, video poetry is a hybrid creative form that integrates spoken-word poetry with media-art visuals produced by a camera or a computer. And, because voice is the catalyst whatever the medium, the evening also includes live spoken-word performances by Vancouver’s Kedrick James and Montreal’s Ian Ferrier.

The fourteen videopoems being screened highlight the vitality and relevance of this artform for filmmakers of all ages and backgrounds.Alongside works by established artists, poets and filmmakers, the program also includes two student works selected from production programs run by Pacific Cinémathèque's Education Department.

Pacific Cinémathèque is pleased to continue its ongoing support of poetry film in this latest collaboration with Heather Haley, architect of the Edgewise ElectroLit Centre and the Vancouver Videopoem Festival. Heather Haley pushes boundaries by creating across disciplines and media. Her work appears on paper, video, CD and the Internet at e-poets.net and heatherhaley.com. A collection of verse called Sideways was published by Anvil Press in 2003 and her videopoem, Dying for the Pleasure recently screened at the International ArtExpo in Milan, Italy, the National Centre for Contemporary Arts in Kalingrad, Russia, and the Gene Siskel Film Center/Chicago Art Institute. She is currently an artist-in-residence at Banff Centre’s Wired Writing Studio.

Part I
Introduction by Heather Haley
On Stage: Kedrick James – in performance
On Screen:    
• Paul Hettel   The Cigarette
• Dwayne Morgan/Michael Lambi Three Knocks
• bill bissett/Lenore Herb   th wizard uv time
• Guillermo Gómez-Peña/Gustavo Vasquez   Declaration of Poetic Disobedience
• Laura Selden, Sally Ngo, Denise Lee   So Much of Life (student film)
• George Aguilar   An Ageless Certainty
• George Bowering/ Elvis Prusic   Lost in the Library

I N T E R M I S S I O N  (15 mins.)
Part II
On Stage:
• Ian Ferrier – in performance
On Screen:
• Adeena Karasick/Rosie Moyer   This is Your Final Nitris: Who's Got the Blues?
• Majid Naficy/Niloufar Talebi   Night
• Sophai Moulton, Kayla Brolly,
  Devon Bates, Sonia Nazarewich, Christina Tanaka		   Inertia (student film)
• Abbas Saffari/ Niloufar Talebi   Tomorrow
• Hilary Peach   Pennsylvania
• Ian Ferrier/ Marlene Millar   This Fire
• Gerard Wozek/Mary Russell   Dance of the Electric Moccasins

FOR FURTHER DETAILS, PLEASE CONSULT THE NOVEMBER + DECEMBER PACIFIC CINÉMATHÈQUE PROGRAM GUIDE,

OR VISIT: http://www.cinematheque.bc.ca/nov_dec_05/visible_verse.html

——— MEDIA RESOURCES ————

** VHS SCREENER: Available
** DIGITAL STILLS: Available
** INTERVIEWS: Heather Haley is available for interview. Contact Visible Verse (hshaley@emspace.com) to arrange.

——— SELECT ON-LINE RESOURCES ————

Heather Haley's website can be found at www.heatherhaley.com

——— SCREENINGS ————

Thursday, November 11– 7:30 pm
$8.50 Adult Single Bill
Advance tickets available at www.cinematheque.bc.ca
24hr Film Infoline: 604 688 FILM

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SEE THE VOICE: An Evening of Visible Verse
At Pacific Cinémathèque
1131 Howe Street, Vancouver
$8.50 Adult Single Bill
Advance tickets available at www.cinematheque.bc.ca
24hr Film Infoline: 604 688 FILM

Media Contact : Jamie Hall, Marketing Assistant
Pacific Cinémathèque
604 688 8202 x222
jamie.hall@cinematheque.bc.ca

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