Event date: May 21, 2026
Event Time: 07:00 PM – 08:30 PM
Description:
Poetic Cinematography: A Workshop on Image
When something is called poetic – a sunset, the moon, a pile of corn husks on a kitchen table with the breeze from a window cracked open, murmuring at their silk – what’s meant is that there’s an idiosyncratic beauty to an object in a moment: that of an undeniable image. In our time together during this workshop, we’ll work to identify those kinds of moments and write the images that emerge from them. To do this we’ll think about the kinship that exists between poetry and film. Both rely, above all, on the supremacy of the image. This notion is what helps differentiate poetry
from fiction and nonfiction, in which narrative and character reign supreme. Not limited by culture or experience, and instead expanded upon by each, the defining language of film and poetry is imagery, with the poet as director, and the poem as scene. A portion of this workshop will also touch on personal iconography in both film and poetry to help hone in on