As I mentioned in a previous post, my friend and coworker Liz Stephens commissioned me to write a poem in response to a short experimental film she recently completed with the composer Matt Sargent. The poem is called “Moving Image #1 [the heart strobed superimposed]” and is the first poem in a series I’ve been sketching out called “At the Museum of the Moving Image.” Liz has titled the film the heart strobed superimposed after that last line in the poem.
The film was screened the evening of April 1st during the “Music and the Moving Image” program at the Hartt School in Hartford. The event was part of the Hartford Sound Alliance and Liz mixed in the audio of us reading the poem text while Matt Sargent performed the soundtrack he composed during the screening. You can check out more of Matt Sargent’s compositions here.