Week 10: Videopoetry

Tuesday, October 20

• In class: (class meets in Zoom and BH 116)
  • “When” by Ottar Ormstad
  • “Fuck You” by Cee-lo Green
  • “Word Crimes” by Weird Al Yankovic
  • “Right Action” by Franz Ferdinand
  • “Star Wars, One Letter at a Time” by Brian Kim Stefans
  • Introduction to The Complete Works by Justin Stephenson

• Homework:
  • Essay #2 due on Thursday, October 22.

Thursday, October 22

• Asynchronous class (no meeting):
  • Watch The Complete Works by Justin Stephenson
  • Explore the website for The Complete Works, especially the page titled The Film, which offers information on the visual poems.
  • Write an 250 word response to the whole film, including an analysis of your assigned videopoem within the film. Unpack Stephenson’s strategies in your assigned videopoem, offering screenshots and a detailed discussion of how the visual and sound information work together and to what effect.
    1. Epigraph (0:00)
    2. Sound Poems (0:25)
    3. Introduction (0:44)
    4. Waiting (2:15)
    5. White Sound (3:54)
    6. The Historical bpNichol (5:07)
    7. The Mouth (6:09)
    8. The True Eventual Story of Billy the Kid (7:22)
    9. Gorg: A Detective Story (9:40)
    10. Waiting (11:40)
    11. Assumptions (12:45)
    12. Ink’s Sin (14:35)
    13. Song for Saint Ein (15:33)
    14. The True Eventual Story of Billy the Kid, Chapter 1: The Kid (16:15)
    15. Probably (15:37)
    16. Interrupted Nap (18:16)
    17. The Page is a Window (18:46)
    18. For the Memory of Robert Graves (20:02)
    19. The True Eventual Story of Billy the Kid, Chapter 2: History (21:03)
    20. Interrupted Nap 2 (22:06)
    21. Music (22:38)
    22. [I Started to Write the Way I Draw] (22:58)
    23. White Sound (24:43)
    24. The True Eventual Story of Billy the Kid, Chapter 3: The Town (27:06)
    25. Drum vs the Book (28:42)
    26. Interrupted Nap 3 (30:11)
    27. Probably 2 (30:46)
    28. (every(all at(toge(forever)ther)once)thing) (31:50)
    29. The True Eventual Story of Billy the Kid, Chapter 4: Why? (33:40)
    30. [I Always Said] (35:15)
    31. Waiting (36:14)
    32. Love Poem (37:22)
    33. Ghosts – Credits (39:00)
  • Your primary post is due by Friday, October 20.
  • Read and respond to at least 3 of your classmates’ posts by Tuesday, October 25.