This video
poem, completed two years or so ago, is made from edited scrap Super 8 footage taken by my grandparents —
mostly by my grandmother — during a return visit to Nova Scotia in the summer
of 1962. I composed the texts for the two poems, "Voiceover" and
"Shoring," and read them. Geoff Mitchell composed and performed the
music and constructed the soundscapes from field audio he recorded around the
Bedford Basin in Nova Scotia. The voice and music were recorded at a studio in
Montreal in June-July 2017. The texts form part of an ongoing series around the
idea of the nostos, the return journey, and address, for me, something like
what Svetlana Boym has called off-modern nostalgia.
Voiceover / Shoring, a videopoem from Kevin McNeilly on Vimeo.
1 comment:
Wow, cool post. I'd like to write like this too - taking time and real hard work to make a great article... but I put things off too much and never seem to get started. Thanks though. trench shore
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