Marie Craven

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That's What I Said from Marie Craven on Vimeo.

A quirky music video made from assorted fragments of 20th century TV ads, radically re-cut to the rhythms of an electronic music track by Jim Robson. The track similarly contains short snatches of the dialogue from old films. Without their original context, these images and voices become something new, absurd and fun.

Video remaster 2019 Original film 2014

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Metamorphosis from Marie Craven on Vimeo.

Inspired by a woodcut print by M.C. Escher, Metamorphosis, imagines a man fascinated by life's multiple and varying repetitions, of shapes and spaces, movement and time.

Directors: Marie Craven & Eduardo Yagüe Writer: Jean Morris Actor: Pedro Luis Menéndez Voice: Rachel Rawlins Music: DXIII Videography: Eduardo Yagüe Editing: Marie Craven With thanks to Colegio de la Inmaculada de Gijón Poem first published on vianegativa.us

Inspired by the woodcut print by M.C. Escher, Metamorphosis II (1939-40)

METAMORPHOSIS by Jean Morris

I am a loner drawn to multiplicity, he might have said. I like it when things change but stay the same, as a village in Italy creeps around and around a hill.

In reflections I see another world – or is it this one? Over and over, bees and birds in flight and swimming fish. Patterns repeat, both infinite and contained. Shapes

tumble into creatures, houses, streets and shapes again. As each thing separates, all coalesce. I feel complete. Shapes tumble into creatures, houses, streets and shapes

again. Patterns repeat, both infinite and contained. Over and over, bees and birds in flight and swimming fish. In reflections I see another world – or is it this one?

As a village in Italy creeps around and around a hill, I like it when things change but stay the same, he might have said. He was a loner drawn to multiplicity.

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Ten from Ten is the final album from Cwtch, a ten-year collaboration between electronic music producer, Paul Foster (Wales), and vocalist, Marie Craven (Australia). Highlights from the three albums, five EPs and three singles the duo released over the decade. Ten from Ten Music & production: Paul Foster. Vocals: Marie Craven. Lyrics: Marie Craven, Travis Cooper, Lynne DeSilva-Johnson, Juanita Alvarez, James Brush. Thanks to Matt Hetherington for the inspiration to make the album.

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The Meeting Ran Long from Marie Craven on Vimeo.

Based on a prose poem by Eric Blanchard, 'The Meeting Ran Long' was first published as a text in the online journal, 'Literary Orphans'. Eric and I had collaborated previously on video poetry, and he was pleased to do so again. On reading his piece, I was drawn to the way it created a sense of daydreaming in a transitional moment of solitude, evoking a short, timeless stream from the unconscious mind.

Commencing its translation to video, I decided to present the text itself on the screen, thereby visualising it. Next I deconstructed the poem from its original form into component phrases that might reveal new resonances in the unconscious spaces of the writing itself. I then edited the now-visual phrases to an experimental sound piece by C.P. McDill, another artist with whom I have been connected via the net for many years.

The non-verbal visual stream came last in the process. For this I selected three hand-processed films, by Rachael Guma, Ashley Swinnerton and David Beard, from the remixable Creative Commons collection of Mono No Aware. These were completely re-cut and treated, and combined into a single stream of moving images, inherently reflective in an altered way, of film-time passing through a projector gate.

The kinetic visual movement of these images, grounded and focused by the text, is expressive of the way thoughts, memories and mental images fly through a human brain. There are narrative elements to be found in the visual abstractions as well, that support the narrative of the prose.

At the beginning and end of the video, the countdown leader to an old vaudeville film was digitally spliced, re-cut to the rhythms of the sound, in subtle variance to actual clock-time.

'The Meeting Ran Long' is a collaborative piece in essence, created via the internet between a film-maker in Australia, and a poet, sound artist, and other film-makers in the USA.

Video: Marie Craven pixie-guts.blogspot.com

Text: Eric Blanchard literaryorphans.org/playdb/the-meeting-ran-longby-eric-blanchard

Sound: C.P. McDill archive.org/details/wh263 (CC BY NC SA 3.0)

Hand-processed film: Rachael Guma, Ashley Swinnerton, David Beard, Mono No Aware vimeo.com/mononoaware (CC BY 3.0)

Published at Moving Poems: movingpoems.com/2016/02/the-meeting-ran-long-by-eric-blanchard

Published in Gnarled Oak journal: gnarledoak.org/issue-9/the-meeting-ran-long

Originally made in 2016, the video was substantially re-made for this 2019 version.

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Poetry + Video

Poetry + Video is a touring program of shorts from around the world. The hour-long collection features contemporary expressions of poetry in video. It is easily obtainable on request to screening spaces in any location. 

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Misery from Marie Craven on Vimeo.

Sarah Sloat creates visual art that is also poetry. She does this by using various techniques to 'erase' most of the words from pages of Stephen King's novel, 'Misery'. Her 'erasures' leave only scattered words around the page, forming small poems. To these, she adds found images, related to the poems in associative ways that might recall surrealism. With Sarah's permission and ongoing feedback, I have here selected a number of the visual poetry pieces and adapted them to video. The video of 'Misery' attempts to construct a fragmented narrative, or new poem, from the juxtaposition of the selected pieces. It focuses strongly on the image components of Sarah's 'Misery pages' and creates a new form for them. Not a strict 'presentation' of Sarah's visual poetry, the video is my response to the inspiration of them.

Visual poetry: Sarah Sloat theraininmypurse.blogspot.com Music: Gurdonark freemusicarchive.org/music/Gurdonark Video: Marie Craven pixieguts.com

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The Sea from Marie Craven on Vimeo.

Music adaptation of a poem by Juniper Roan. Voice and video by Marie Craven. Music by Sidney Irvine. Source images from Unsplash.

The music is available for download here: pixsid.bandcamp.com/track/the-sea-boomin-dub

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1000 Rubies from Marie Craven on Vimeo.

A music-video-poem.

Words and music: Adrian Carter soundcloud.com/adicarter Video concept, edit, voice: Marie Craven pixieguts.com Source images: Unsplash & Videoblocks Thanks to: Nigel Wells

Unsplash artists: Alac Dai, Alex Iby, Jonathan Miranda, Jiri Sifalda, Nathan Burrows, Christopher Campbell, Joshua K Jackson, Colin Rex, Ant Rozetsky, Ivan Kovac, Yifei Chen, Amirreza Fardad, Michael Kahl, Conner Bowe, Joanna Kosinska, Ehud Neuhaus, Leonardo Yip, Jose Duarte, Nikita Ignatev, Sabine van Straaten, Bulkan Evcimen, Christopher Burns, Ian Parker, Jay Dantinne, Richard Jaimes, Kunj Parekh, Rene Bohmer, Sam Burriss, Paz Arando, Peter Lewicki, Erik Odiin, Miles Storey, Trevin Rudy, Simon Launay, Teddy Petrosky, Brad Lloyd, Hermes Rivera, Nastya Maxymova, Taylor Bryant, Noah Silliman, Janos Patrik, Igor Ovsyannykov, Juliene Magalhaes, Fayiz Musthafa, Deva Darshan, Glenn Carstons Peters, Raj Eiamworakul, Noah Hinton, Jace Grandinetti, Ewelina Karezona Karbowiac, Hernan Sanchez, Quentin Keller, Lewyiri Clem Onojeghuo.

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St. Umbilicus from Marie Craven on Vimeo.

Poem & voice: Cindy St. Onge vimeo.com/user38122909 Music: Chris Zabriskie chriszabriskie.com Footage: Prelinger Archives archive.org/details/prelinger Still: Linnéa Sjögren flickr.com/photos/linneas/8626256737 Video concept & editing: Marie Craven pixieguts.com

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The Retreat from Marie Craven on Vimeo.

From The Book of Hours film poetry collaboration project.

Poem & voice: Lucy English thebookofhours.org Video concept & edit: Marie Craven pixieguts.com Music: Adrian Carter soundcloud.com/adicarter Images: Flickr Creative Commons & Pixabay (cc licensed)

Photographers: Alpha flickr.com/photos/avlxyz Bonnie Moreland flickr.com/photos/icetsarina/37389989314 Chollingsworth3 flickr.com/photos/chollingsworth/4908470929 Curtis Perry flickr.com/photos/curtisperry Dj Lu Juegasiempre flickr.com/photos/juegasiempre/14708706781 John Keogh flickr.com/photos/jvk/2352994482 Jonbgem flickr.com/photos/jonbgem Melissa Venable flickr.com/photos/melissavenable/5681157049 Miki Jourdan flickr.com/photos/73886864@N08/10025512745 Neven Mrgan flickr.com/photos/neven/5623230262 Stefan Schmidt flickr.com/photos/loopkid/4557484505 Stephen Minutillo flickr.com/photos/steveminutillo/3578159911 Thomas Hawk flickr.com/photos/thomashawk Traci Lawson flickr.com/photos/tracilawson

THE RETREAT by Lucy English

I have not blow dried my hair for a week or thought about which outfit I should wear, or revamped my Facebook status or sent a Tweet. or cooked a complicated meal.

I ate tinned fish and apples. I read nine books and wrote nine poems. I’m wearing musty jeans and an old tee shirt. My hair has found its own fashion.

There is another life I didn’t have and I feel it like a twin beside me who sits and looks out of the garden room window at the rain clouds coming down from Crug Mawr.

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Peace-Prayer from Marie Craven on Vimeo.

Poem: Laura M Kaminski arkofidentity.wordpress.com/books Music: Benjamin Dauer & Specta Ciera spectaciera.bandcamp.com (CC BY-NC 3.0) Images: Videoblocks videoblocks.com (royalty free) Video concept & edit: Marie Craven pixieguts.com

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Quiet Sounds from Marie Craven on Vimeo.

From The Book of Hours film poetry collaboration project.

Poem & voice: Lucy English thebookofhours.org Images: Carol Blyberg flickr.com/people/smilla4 (cc licensed) Sounds: Freesound.org (cc licensed, see below) Video concept & edit: Marie Craven pixieguts.com

Audio sources at freesound.org: ade swash freesound.org/people/squashy555/sounds/319512 acclivity freesound.org/people/acclivity/sounds/118828 azdipu freesound.org/people/azdipu/sounds/341672 jgrayart freesound.org/people/JGrayArt/sounds/156844 jmbphilmes freesound.org/people/jmbphilmes/sounds/129443 klankbeeld freesound.org/people/klankbeeld/sounds/242602 mdrivet freesound.org/people/MDRivet/sounds/333423 michieldb freesound.org/people/Michieldb/sounds/219010 omega9 freesound.org/people/Omega9/sounds/267073 thfc140491 freesound.org/people/thfc140491/sounds/90010 yuval freesound.org/people/Yuval/sounds/211192

QUIET SOUNDS by Lucy English

The clouds hold in sound. Hold it down. A wood pigeon croons with the chuck of a pheasant. Up the valley a sheep blahs.

Fine rain makes no noise, no drips, and the stream over the pebbles, under the bridge is background dribble to a high up plane’s faint shhh.

The kitchen clock marks time’s neat click. I sneeze three times. A letter? Four. Something better? A cow complains. A crow caws back.

Mmmmmm. Says the fridge to the rumble of another plane. My inner ear can now hear the weight of hush.

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Everything sleeps but the night from Marie Craven on Vimeo.

Poem & reading: Matt Hetherington Soundscapes: Miles du Heaume & Zaziz Source images: Mskrzyp, Bill Collison, Kjetil Aavik, Videoblocks, Mazwai, Flickr Video: Marie Craven

soundcloud.com/zaziz soundcloud.com/miles-du-heaume vimeo.com/mskrzyp125 flickr.com/photos/billcollison/8388050861 flickr.com/photos/kjeik/5461124665 pixieguts.com

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The Last Days from Marie Craven on Vimeo.

From The Book of Hours film poetry collaboration project.

Poem & voice: Lucy English thebookofhours.org Music: Kevin MacLeod incompetech.com (CC BY 3.0) Video concept & edit: Marie Craven pixieguts.com 2017

Images: Prelinger Archives 'A Child Went Forth' By Joseph Losey & John Ferno (Public Domain) 1942

'The Last Days' by Lucy English

Go to sleep little boy. Tonight there will be no gas attacks or bombs. We will hide in the basement and I will sing to you about the flowers in my Mother's garden. Do you remember we used to play there

in the grass with your sister? Do you remember how tall the grass used to be? Do you remember your sister? She used to say you were not brave enough. Go to sleep little boy.

I think I will try to sleep too. Before you were born you were so small. You were like a little fish and you slept safe in my sea cave. I wish we could go back in time then you would be safe and I could hold your sister.

Your father would pat my belly and be proud of us. Perhaps I could go back further still and sleep in my mother's sea cave. Where all I can hear is her heart and not the scream of these fighter jets.

Go to sleep little boy. Do not grow up and learn to hate.

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7 March from Marie Craven on Vimeo.

Musical video from a poem from Dave Bonta's book, 'Ice Mountain'.

Poem: Dave Bonta davebonta.com Music: Dementio13 dementio13.com Concept, editing, voice: Marie Craven pixieguts.com

7 March

paper birch trees can only bend so far before they break under the weight of freezing rain

rhododendron leaves tough as old scrolls are stripped by starving deer

but some always resprout from the roots having who knows how many lifetimes of practice

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25 January from Marie Craven on Vimeo.

Video of a poem from Dave Bonta's book, 'Ice Mountain'.

Poem & Stills: Dave Bonta davebonta.com Music: Josh Woodward joshwoodward.com Video concept & editing: Marie Craven pixieguts.com

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Hybrid from Marie Craven on Vimeo.

Video concept, editing and fx: Marie Craven pixieguts.com Original art: Marguerite de Mosa vimeo.com/user8540278 Music: SK123 sk123.bandcamp.com Words: Nigel Wells vimeo.com/user31628596