Making Filmpoems:
A Workshop with Rachel McCrum

Making Filmpoems with Rachel McCrum

In this three-hour workshop, we’ll explore some of the background and techniques of filmpoetry including: types of shots and storyboarding; using sound, text, and image to create suspended meaning; and more.

You will need to bring your camera phone to create footage; please have some prior knowledge of the basic editing software available on your phone. If the weather is good, we’ll do some filming around the Morrin Centre, so dress accordingly.

To register, CLICK HERE.

If you have any questions about this event, please write to library@morrin.org.

Presenter

Photo by Cassandra Cacheiro

RACHEL MCCRUM is a poet, performer, editor, and curator. Originally from Northern Ireland, she lived in Edinburgh, Scotland between 2010 and 2016, where she was the first BBC Scotland Poet in Residence and recipient of a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship. Her debut collection The First Blast to Awaken Women Degenerate was translated by Jonathan Lamy and published in a bilingual edition with Mémoire d’encrier in Fall 2020, and was a finalist for the Le Prix de traduction de la Fondation Cole from the Quebec Writers’ Federation in 2022. She is currently working on a new spoken word show on stepmothers. Rachel is the vocalist for noise-poetry group Pigs&Wolves.

This event is part of the Morrin in Verse project, which is made possible thanks to support from the Government of Canada.