“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 a text sparking the imagination with visual connections and metaphor.” {Alastair Cook, Anon 7}

Filmpoem is an artists’ moving image project founded by artist Alastair Cook in 2010, committed to delivering education and community projects as well as promoting the work of poets, filmmakers and composers. Filmpoem collaborates with organisations such as the Southbank, The Poetry Society, Poetry International, Alchemy and ZEBRA Berlin.

Filmpoem has a core team consisting of Alastair Cook, Janet Lees, Luca Nasciuti and James William. The full archive of Alastair Cook’s personal poetry-film work is held by the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh, Scotland.