Orfea Outin by frankblame

Not a video poem, but an eerie, urban and gritty dance/performance film.

Green Grass by Michelle Firment Reid

http://www.michellefirmentreid.com

A superb example of a video poem by someone working across genres, as the artist is a painter and a poet and acted as producer of the video, but not as camera person or editor.

MTV Night Painter

This global MTV branding campaign by the South African production company Fly On The Wall uses poetry and video art techniques.

MTV Night Swimmer

This global MTV branding campaign by the South African production company Fly On The Wall uses poetry and video art techniques.

MTV Collector Girl

If there is anything that defies my curator's brief by suiting this project it this global MTV branding campaign by the South African production company Fly On The Wall. It uses poetry and video art techniques to bring across messages that seem really inspiring. Even though they might strike you as rather pretentious and banal if watched twice, Fly On The Wall remains one of the most interesting filmmakers around.

Sam Taylor-Wood. Breach. video installation. 2001.

A video installation by the British artist with a quietly disturbing performance.

Julian Grey. Billy Collins. Forgetfulness. video poem. 2006

An awesome video poem by the US Poet Laureate and Julian Grey of Headgear. Big time inspiration.

Kai Lossgott. Melissa Butler. parentheses. video poem. 2008.

A video poem about Cape Town by the South African video artist Kai Lossgott and the American poet Melissa Butler, created to kickstart the City Breath project.

Anders Weberg. For Sore Eyes. video. 2008.

A recent work by the Swedish video artist.

Jeanette Ginslov. slip. screen dance.

An early screen dance by the South African multimedia choreographer.

Pippilotti Rist. I'm not the girl who misses much. 1985.

The Swiss video artist's famous first video, reworking lyrics by John Lennon, seen at the time as a comment on MTV.