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Alastair Cook

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“Filmpoem is an artists’ moving image project founded by artist Alastair Cook in 2010. As a collective, Filmpoem delivers education and community projects, and promotes the work of poets, filmmakers and composers. Filmpoem collaborates with organisations such as the Southbank, The Poetry Society, Poetry International, the Scottish Poetry Library, Alchemy, Antwerpen Boekenstad, Poëziecentrum and Haus für Poesie.”

“The combination of film and poetry is an attractive one. For the poet, perhaps a hope that the filmmaker will bring something to the poem: a new audience, a visual attraction, the laying of way markers; for the filmmaker a fixed parameter to respond to, the power of text sparking the imagination with visual connections and metaphor.” – Alastair Cook, Anon 7

Filmpoem’s core team comprises of artist, editor and director Alastair Cook, electro-acoustic composer Luca Nasciuti and cinematographer James William Norton. We are based in Edinburgh, travel well and are open to commission.

Edinburgh-based artist Alastair Cook studied architecture at the Glasgow School of Art where he developed a focussed interest in video and photography. During his time in architectural practice, he developed skills in visual communication and project delivery that underpin a parallel development in his artistic practice. 

Alastair has exhibited and screened internationally and has video and photographic artworks in several collections. His work in developing and sustaining relationships within tight-knit communities has elicited funding to work as artist-in-residence with organisations in Scotland, Lithuania and Norway. He is an active workshop teacher and visiting lecturer and has extensive experience of independent working, gathering of independent funding and success in exhibiting and screening work both in collaboration and as a solo artist. 

Alastair has delivered projects funded by Creative Scotland and Heritage Lottery Fund, leading a series of visual arts programmes supporting emergent and established artists. He currently leads arts organisation Integrated Artists. As a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts he practices as an innovative arts contributor with a social conscience.”

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Read the poems

  • Filmpoem 1 / Dog
  • Filmpoem 2 / Scene
  • Filmpoem 3 / Portobello
  • Filmpoem 4 / La Plage
  • Filmpoem 5 / Emily Melting
  • Filmpoem 6 / Adrift
  • Filmpoem 7 / -ed
  • Filmpoem 8 / MacAdam Takes to the Sea
  • Filmpoem 9 / Abachan
  • Filmpoem 10 / Naming
  • Filmpoem 11 / Condition of Fire
  • Filmpoem 12 / Prodigal
  • Filmpoem 13 / Philosophy
  • Filmpoem 14 / Mothlight
  • Filmpoem 15 / Slow Wave
  • Filmpoem 16 / 14th Avenue Tshwane
  • Filmpoem 17 / Wherever We Live Now
  • Filmpoem 18 / Leper Window, St Mary the Virgin
  • Filmpoem 19 / Better Days
  • Filmpoem 20 / Jonah
  • Filmpoem 21 / I Lost You
  • Filmpoem 22 / Twenty Second Filmpoem
  • Filmpoem 23 / Mirror
  • Filmpoem 24 / The Herrin’ Trail
  • Filmpoem 25 / Jump Into Air
  • Filmpoem 26 / The Forty Elephants
  • Filmpoem 27 / Field Notes
  • Filmpoem 28 / Aan Het Water
  • Filmpoem 29 / Born to Die
  • Filmpoem 30 / Sonatorrek
  • Filmpoem 31 / After the Robins
  • Filmpoem 32/ A Westray Prayer
  • Filmpoem 33 / Allow Yourself This One Day
  • Filmpoem 34 / The Shipwright’s Love Song
  • Filmpoem 35 / Fallow Field
  • Filmpoem 36 / Bernard and Cerinthe
  • Filmpoem 37 / How to be a Poet
  • Filmpoem 38 / Ocean
  • Filmpoem 39 / I Shake Out My Coat
  • Filmpoem 40 / The Gun
  • Filmpoem 41 / The Emancipation of the Knee
  • Filmpoem 42 / Grand Union Bridge
  • Filmpoem 43 / Lifted
  • Filmpoem 44 / The Black Delph Bride
  • Filmpoem 45 / The Water Doesn’t Move, the Past Does
  • Filmpoem 46 / The Day the Deer Came
  • Filmpoem 47 / For a Liturgy
  • Filmpoem 48 / Arctica
  • Filmpoem 49 / A Robert Burns Quartet
  • Filmpoem 50 / Animal Charcoal
  • Filmpoem 51 / Revenant
  • Filmpoem 52 / How Well It Burns
  • Filmpoem 53/ The God of Sugar
  • Filmpoem 54 / Yesterday’s Noise
  • Filmpoem 58 / The Fisherman and the Weather Wife
  • Filmpoem 56 / The Curfew
  • Filmpoem 57 / Anither Season
  • Filmpoem 55 / Alba
  • Filmpoem 59 / Amerika (The Man Who Disappeared)
  • Filmpoem 60 / The Sword
  • Insignificant As Stars

From the Library Catalogue

Publications by Alastair Cook

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