Filmpoem is an artists’ moving image project founded by Alastair Cook in 2010, committed to delivering education and community projects as well as producing and promoting the work of poets, filmmakers and composers. We regularly collaborate with organisations such as the Poetry Society, Poetry International and Southbank.
Filmpoem is based in the United Kingdom of Words but travels well. This website holds the archive of Alastair’s poetry-film work as well as the Filmpoem Festival archive. Our current directors are cinematographer James William Norton, composer Luca Nasciuti, filmmaker Helmie Stil and Alastair.
Arctica Triptych
Arctica is a series of interlinked artworks, borne from writer and artist Stevie Ronnie’s 2013 journey to the High Arctic through the Arctic Circle international residency programme. As part of Arctica, Alastair Cook was commissioned by Stevie to make a triptych of Filmpoems with sound by Italian composer Luca Nasciuti. The films also feature Arctic […] read more
Filmpoem 49/ Alba
Alba is part of a series of films commissioned by Absent Voices, a group of artists focused on the celebration of the post-industrial Greenock Sugar Sheds. The series was screened at Body Electric in Colorado USA (2013), Filmpoem Festival in Dunbar, Scotland (2013), Felix Poetry Festival in Antwerp, Belgium (2014) and Absent Voices in Greenock, […] read more
All images and films copyright Alastair Cook 2015 unless expressly indicated otherwise.