This was a really lovely evening, expertly curated by the generous and eloquent Gareth Evans, putting myself and Chris McCabe into a program of some amazing contemporary American experimental cinema, reading American poets. The Whitechapel is always a good place to read, but to have cinema sit up close with poetry, and to be reading work like O'Hara and Starr Hamilton made it feel completely new to me. A very generous feeling between the filmmakers and film curator Jamie Wyld and us too, this is the kind of thing I'm always happy to be doing.
Reading from the work of American poets Alfred Starr Hamilton and Frank O'Hara, British poets Chris McCabe and SJ Fowler read here as part of the Whitechapel gallery's Stateland: screening some of the most creative and groundbreaking artist-filmmakers from the US; including Laida Lertxundi, Luciano Piazza and Ben Russell.
Reading from the work of American poets Alfred Starr Hamilton and Frank O'Hara, British poets Chris McCabe and SJ Fowler read here as part of the Whitechapel gallery's Stateland: screening some of the most creative and groundbreaking artist-filmmakers from the US; including Laida Lertxundi, Luciano Piazza and Ben Russell.