A few years back, I wrote a poetry blog on DAO that asks awkward questions to a CCTV camera, that interrogates everything about the CCTV, its users, and the ideology behind it.
Here it is now in film form.
Enjoy! I promise I won’t be watching you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8IAzxpps5k The Highgate Challenge on extinction actually got 3 poems out of me. I was able later to link in with Extinction Rebellion Tower Hamlets and contribute a video sequence to one of their fundraisers during lock down. Delighted to present it here. My co-reader is Jean BaylissThe Challenge – ExtinctionI remember municipal clocksBefore diamond mines ...
In June 2019 we were surrounded by images from Extinction Rebellion. The Highgate Society Poetry Group had several members active in the movement. No surprise therefore that we chose a challenge looking at the issues. Ideas for Preventing Climate ChaosJust one camera, one news crewAnnouncing the birth of royal babiesJust one unattached familyStanding on the ...
My very first memories of my grandparents’ home include the stairway to nowhere. The architect was apparently so appalled by his finished building that he climbed the pointless stairway and hung himself at the top. Led Zeppelin’s Stairway to Heaven has, for me, always been haunted. Just as Elizabeth Frink’s Walking Madonna strides determinedly past Danny Lane’s ...
so, not quite D A Pennebaker but a good idea nonetheless 🙂
Should have had you in the background, Richard 😉
Thank you