May 18th the Rodwan Productions team met up with the poet Charles Goodrich and his wife Kapa at Dig Recording for the voice over recording for the Poetry in Pictures Series film of Charles’s poem “The Wind in the Trees.”  The session was a filmmaker’s dream!  No one knows the poem better than Charles and he is a natural born storyteller.  It was very surprising to learn this was his first time in recording his work.  The ease he exhibited in the studio made him appear to be a pro!  Each take was dead on perfect and we could have called it a wrap after take one.  Instead Charles made my job harder by giving me 10 wonderful takes to choose from, each with its own subtle differences.

Two Poetry In Pictures Series films will be featured in the DIFF school program.  Imperfect Armor and Incantation will be screened at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday,  March 3rd at Ignacio Intermediate School for 3-5 graders.   On Friday, March 4th Incantation will be screened at 10:00 and 10:55 a.m. at the Durango Arts center to 3-5 graders.  I am looking forward to talking with the students about film, poetry and art. The teachers of these students have been sent the poems and asked to discuss with the students their own ideas about images that they might use to illustrate the poetry.

Incantation, A Noiseless Patient Spider and Imperfect Armor have all been used in classrooms and at children’s film festivals and children’s museums to teach children about self expression through multiple forms of art.

Still from Incantation. Copyright © 2008 Rodwan Productions.

Still from Imperfect Armor. Copyright © 2010 Rodwan Productions.