Poetry and Film workshop
with Colm Scully
Sunday 4 June
9am to 1pm
and Monday 5 June
10am to 2pm
The Snug, Mountshannon
€ 50 with wristband
Are you interested in learning more about poetry film making? Are you a poet with an interest in film, or a filmmaker with a love of poetry?
Colm Scully, award-winning poet and (micro) film maker from Cork, will facilitate a two-day poetry film workshop
Aim: Comfort and enjoyment.
People will be coming at this from different perspectives and places. There will be poets and film makers and neither. The aim will be to bring everybody along. There will be no stress to finish any film during the two days. The aim will be for us all to learn and hopefully send on a film a month or so later that we can all view together.
No neeed to be a techie to do this course - just be a lover of poetry and film
Day 1
Everyone introduces themselves.
An introduction to Poetry Film.
Break
What we need to make poetry films.
Discuss each person’s proposal and way forward.
Maybe some light homework for the afternoon.
Day 2
The elements and how to use them.
Voice/ Editing Software/ Footage.
Break
More poetry-film styles.
Next steps for each participant
Homework: Produce the film and send it to Colm.
Day 3. A month afterwards:
Zoom meeting and feedback at a date to be agreed, when we will view everybody’s films.
Colm Scully
Poetry: His collection 'What News, Centurions?' is published by New Binary Press. He won the Cúirt New Writing Prize in 2014 and was selected for Poetry Ireland Introductions in the same year. He has been commended in The Gregory O'Donoghue Prize. Colm's poems have been published in Cyphers, Crannóg, Abridged, Skylight 47, Burning Bush, Philosophy Now, The Stony Thursday Book and many others.
Poetry Film: Colm has made over thirty Poetry Films including collaboration with Conor McManus, Mags Creedon, Sue Blue and Anton Floyd. His films have been shown/shortlisted at festivals all over the world including Fastnet Film Festival, IndyCork Film Festival, Slippery Elm Poetry Film Prize, Lyra Bristol Poetry Festival, Ó Bhėal Poetry Film Competition, 10th International Video Poetry Festival, Reel Poetry Houston, Carmarthen Bay Film Festival, Newlyn Film Festival and many more. He won 1st Prize at Spark Micromania Film Competition and Rabbits Heart Poetry Film Competition. He won the Deanna Tulley Multimedia Prize in 2023.
Fiction: Colm's short stories have been published in From the Well, Cork County Libraries and The Honest Ulsterman.
Other: He has been an adjudicator at several poetry film competitions in Ireland and abroad, including organising the Drumshanbo Written Word Weekend Poetry Film Competition 2022.
Colm has given workshops on poetry film for DeBarras Spoken Word, Clonakilty and at Ashton College, Cork. He is a board member of Ó Bhéal Poetry Events Cork. His films have been shown in The Glucksman Gallery, UCC Cork as part of a Digital Humanities international conference.