In our third round of films from FACT Liverpool's Type Motion exhibition, we share a curated selection of clips from the show, this week exploring the relationship between poetry and moving image.
The avant-garde filmmakers of the early twentieth century were interested in liberating the then-new medium from those other media that were alreadyconsidered art prior to their incorporation into film — theatre and literature, language and writing. Today, however, the conceptual integration and the creative visualisation of what had once been (ideologically) rejected as ‘un-filmic’ has become a growing trend. Artists now strive to interpret literary works in animated poetry-clips, transform literary idioms into filmic language and draw attention to the form of writing to visualise the content it conveys.