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Surface Tensions: Framing the Flow of a Poetry-Film Collaboration

Flow & Frame is a collaboration between filmmaker Wyn Mason and poet Philip Gross. The traditional method of producing poetry-films has been either a filmmaker creating a film based on a poem or a poet writing a poem to accompany a film. Flow & Frame explores more synergic methods of poetry-film collaboration, based on heuristic experimentation, with the creative baton passed back and forth between collaborators. In addition to the forthcoming published article detailed above, this output also includes the film itself and an accompanying website where user-viewers can select a "shuffle button‟ to view the films accompanied by any of the poems, i.e. 169 variations (over 5 ½ hours

duration); a form that complements the work's theme, based on Heraclitus' quote of not being able to step into the same river twice. The work exploits the Web's database nature in order to multiply the associations, connotations and metaphors‟ single poetry-films normally generate.

Work-in-progress website can be viewed online: http://www.wireandstrings.co.uk/videos/loading.html (NB: currently it can only be viewed by using Google Chrome)