The video uses a mixture of original and found footage. While he shots some sea animals for the first half of the video in Berlin’s magnificent Aquarium, He uses heavily edited YouTube videos in the second part. As he creates videos for his own poetry, he trys to uses visuals as a means to reveal hidden layers in the text. By avoiding a literal visualization, he cans make explicit some associations he had while writing the poems.
Director’s note- from Moving Poems:
The video uses a mixture of original and found footage. While I shot some sea animals for the first half of the video in Berlin’s magnificent Aquarium, I use heavily edited YouTube videos in the second part.
As I create videos for my own poetry, I try to use visuals as a means to reveal hidden layers in the text. By avoiding a literal visualization, I can make explicit some associations I had while writing the poems.
