{"id":17774,"date":"2021-12-16T16:16:51","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T16:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/?p=17774"},"modified":"2021-12-16T16:16:51","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T16:16:51","slug":"9th-poetry-film-competition-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/9th-poetry-film-competition-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"9th Poetry-Film Competition Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"

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9th \u00d3 Bh\u00e9al Poetry-Film Competition Winner Announced<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

28th November 2021<\/i><\/p>\n

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We are thrilled to announce and convey our heartfelt congratulations to poet & filmmaker Janet Lees<\/strong> from the Isle of Man, whose film What I fear most is becoming \u201ca poet\u201d<\/em> is \u00d3 Bh\u00e9al’s 9th poetry-film competition winner, as announced at the 9th Winter Warmer<\/a> Poetry Festival awards ceremony. <\/p>\n

Janet’s film was chosen from 184 submissions<\/strong><\/a> received from 122 filmmakers in 32 countries. The 2021 shortlist represents <\/font>13<\/strong><\/font> countries: <\/font>Canada, Ireland, Isle of Man, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Per\u00fa, Romania, Spain, Sweden, The Netherlands, UK<\/strong> and the USA<\/strong>. You can view the complete shortlist and screenings here<\/a>. Our warm thanks to all the poets and filmmakers who submitted this year.<\/font><\/p>\n

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What I fear most is becoming \u201ca poet\u201d<\/strong><\/font> (6:10)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n

Poem: What I fear most is becoming \u201ca poet\u201d<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

by Katerina Gogou<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n

Synopsis<\/strong> – Katerina Gogou (1949-1993) was Greece\u2019s greatest modern anarchist poetess. Her poems have become synonymous with the radical culture of Greece and with Exarcheia, the Athens neighbourhood known as the anarchist quarter. Born into the Nazi occupation of Greece, she lived through the years of far right military junta oppression and the country\u2019s resurgent anarchist movement in the 1980s. An activist herself, she became a prophet of the movement and her poems anthems for it. She died of an overdose on 3 October 1993. This poetry film was produced by the Institute for Experimenal Arts and commissioned by the art platform filmpoetry.org, as part of the Digital Culture Programme, Ministry of Culture \/ Greece.
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Director: Janet Lees<\/strong> (Isle of Man)<\/font><\/p>\n

Janet Lees is an artist, poet and poetry filmmaker. Her film-based work has been selected for many festivals and screenings, including the Zebra Poetry Film Festival, the International Videopoetry Festival and the Aesthetica Art Prize. As an artist she has exhibited in group shows around the world. She represented the Isle of Man at the Festival Interceltique in France, with a full-scale solo exhibition of art photography, experimental film and poetry. Janet’s poetry is widely published and anthologised. She has had two books published: House of water<\/em>, a collection of her poems and art photographs, and A bag of sky<\/em>, the winning collection in the Frosted Fire Firsts prize hosted by the UK’s Cheltenham Poetry Festival.
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