MANIFESTO FOR CONCRETE POETRY

MANIFESTO FOR CONCRETE POETRY

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 4, 2024

Runtime

0h 7m

Original Title

MANIFESTO FOR CONCRETE POETRY

Production Companies

Yanasa Films

Director

Sebastian Galasso

Description

In 1979, Native Hawaiian poet Wayne Kaumualii Westlake (1947–1984) published MANIFESTO [for Concrete Poetry], a sardonic and avant-garde three-page poem that challenged the conventions of language and form. Reexamining the roots of Dadaism and the International Concrete Poetry movement of the 1950s, the film transforms text into a living, dynamic force—an interplay of words, sound, and movement that defies traditional narrative constraints.