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Dan Power is a poet, filmmaker, and founding editor of Trickhouse Press.
Four Poems is a series of video poems in which the horizontal lines of a poem, usually composed of text, have been substituted for horizontal lines of moving image. The piece explores what remains of a poem when its language is removed, and how images might interact with each other in similar or different ways to words. It asks whether rhyme, rhythm, sibilance, or dissonance, might be effectively created by juxtaposing images. It also asks whether arranging images might create a sense of authorship, intentionality, or a tone of voice, in the way that arranging words might. Finally, Four Poems invites the viewer to consider how they might ‘read’ a poem – does a reading have to occur from top-to-bottom, or might new interpretations be possible when the moving parts of the poem can all be seen at once?
A documentary recording wildlife in Lancaster, Dundee and Fife, shot on a Samsung Galaxy A51.
Fulmar attempts to inhabit the memory of a seabird. It is intended for exhibition via a looping single-channel video.
A video sonnet composed from stock footage, edited by Dan Power.
Compiled from stock footage, Livestock is a visual poem exploring the digital, physical and metaphysical synergy of the modern workplace.
A study of a flock of pigeons living in Bergen, Norway.
