Two reasons to celebrate:
Professor Kimiko Hahn has been awarded this year's PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry!
The PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, established by a bequest from Hunce Voelcker, will be presented for the eighth time in 2008. The award is given to a poet whose distinguished and growing body of work to date represents a notable and accomplished presence in American literature. The poet honored by the award is one for whom the exceptional promise seen in earlier work has been fulfilled, and who continues to mature with each successive volume of poetry. The award is given in even-numbered years and carries a stipend of $5,000.
Also, check this out: Tribeba Film Festival premiere's Everywhere at Once, a film by Peter Lindbergh and Holly Fisher
With Jeanne Moreau
Text by Kimiko Hahn
Music by Lois V Vierk
Public Screenings:
Sunday, April 27, 9:00 pm, AMC 19th St. East, II
Wednesday, April 30, 10:45 pm, AMC Village VII
Thursday, May 1, 1:15 pm, Village East Cinema 3
Sunday, May 4, 7:15 pm, Village East Cinema 6
35 mm – B & W and Color – 73 minutes
From the start this project was realized intuitively, made on a handshake between internationally-acclaimed photographer Peter Lindbergh and experimental filmmaker Holly Fisher. Poet Kimiko Hahn was recruited to provide the text, based on Lindbergh’s celebrity photographs. The team soon set to work, commencing production with the loose dream-narrative drafted by Hahn and the prospect of music by composer Lois V Vierk. When Lindbergh proposed that Jeanne Moreau might agree to read the text, a light went off in Fisher’s head: having worked with archival material in the past, she saw the possibility of using sound and picture ‘shards’ from ‘Mademoiselle.’ Every visual element was treated as an archeological find in the portrayal of an unseen protagonist, mysterious and ageless. The resulting film, intimate journal-like entries recited by Moreau, is personal yet universal and at times quite dark. Above all, it is a celebration of images.
