Welcome to the Rabbit Heart Poetry Film Festival, sister! Presented by Doublebunny Press and based out of Worcester, MA*, the name just fit. This film festival is about bringing together poetry and the visual arts at the intersection of film.** Anyone can make a video of a poet reading a poem, but that’s not what Rabbit Heart is looking for. What we’re looking for is what you can do visually with
a poem, without showing performance.*** Use the poem as your soundtrack, add sound effects and music if you’d like, and let that be your springboard for what happens visually – show, don’t tell, and do it up hella good. You will be rewarded for awesome work! Rabbit Heart will be awarding prizes! Best Overall Picture will win $200, and there will be $100 prizes in categories for Best Animation, Best Music in a Video, Best Smartphone Production, Best Under 1 Minute, and Best Valentine. There will also be a rollicking good screening party where winners are announced, popcorn is served, and a red rug of some sort will be set out for the guests to arrive and get papparazzi’d. OMG, SO MUCH FUN! This program is supported in part by a grant from the Worcester Arts Council, a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency. More information about the WAC and the MCC at their websites -
www.worcestermass.org/wac
www.massculturalcouncil.org
*The Heart of Massachusetts, natch.
**Ok ok, video. Or that digital place where pictures dance pretty to sound. You know, like a movie.
***No performance, please. No one reading the poem. Not even a little bit. Upworthy’s got that covered, they do it right and delightfully. It’s just not what’s going on here.
