Video by Marie Craven of a poem by Laura M Kaminski. Music by anunusualleopard. Writing, voice and images sourced from the Poetry Storehouse, Flickr and Deviant Art (Creative Commons licensed). Thanks to the Pool creative group.
Marie Craven: pixieguts.com
Laura M Kaminski: arkofidentity.wordpress.com
anunusualleopard: anunusualleopard.bandcamp.com
Poetry Storehouse: poetrystorehouse.com
Pool: facebook.com/groups/poolgroup
Images: flickr.com/photos/lawcrow911/sets/72157603878314470
mad-popietro.deviantart.com/art/The-heart-of-a-magnolia-flower-161163585
flickr.com/photos/mercadanteweb/sets/72157631985901538
Notes on the making of this video are here:
pixie-guts.blogspot.com.au/2015/02/videopoems-with-laura-m-kaminski.html
Published at the Moving Poems website here:
movingpoems.com/2014/10/joining-the-lotus-eaters-by-laura-m-kaminski
Published in Gnarled Oak literary journal here:
gnarledoak.org/issue-8/joining-the-lotus-eaters
Official selection, Ó Bhéal Poetry Film Festival 2016, Ireland:
obheal.ie/blog/poetry-film-shortlist-2016
Ó Bhéal touring program at Clare Island Film Festival 2017, Ireland:
clareislandfilmfestival.wordpress.com/programme-2017
Artist Film Workshop, Melbourne, Australia 2018:
artistfilmworkshop.org/marie-craven
Marie Craven is an Australian film-maker who has directed, written and/or produced short films since 1984. Based in Queensland since 2002, she spent her early childhood living on a sheep and cattle station in country NSW, before her family relocated to Melbourne in 1967.