Northwest Film Forum: Video Poetry

The Northwest Film Forum, located in Capitol Hill, Seattle, is a non-profit organization whose objective is to provide new and creative cinematic experiences by hosting movies and movie related experiences. In other words, you can see all kinds of crazy movies (and talk about them) through it. They have their own movie screens in Capitol Hill, but from time to time they make use of the movie theater inside the MoPOP (Museum of Pop Culture, in the Seattle Center). Many people have heard about and visited the MoPOP but probably never knew that there is a top notch movie theater deep at the bottom of the building (I myself had never been there) which is actually bigger than a number of other theaters in the city. Yesterday, the Northwest Film Forum was making use of the MoPOP theater to show a collection of video poems: a video poem is a poem that makes use of a short movie to complement it. In this program, some poets used the video to read the poem aloud and coordinate the verses with related images on the screen, whereas others displayed the words on the screen, and finally some went fully abstract and made the poem be the images themselves. They were all very creative and beautiful, and it was more than worth the price of the ticket. As an added bonus, I could visit the rest of the MoPOP, which I hadn't done for quite some time and it is always a nice place to be.




Location: Seattle, WA, USA

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