Blue Flash Flash
2017. Video, 100s of photographs
‘Blue Flash Flash’ describes the moment in a child's life in which they learn a new word - octopus - and their neurones act to lock down the knowledge forever. From minuscule beginnings the acquisition of a language is fundamental to our identity. Language gives us words in our mind and describes who we are to ourselves. It is the front of house in our interactions with each other.
Poem: Poem to be Read on One Breath: Blue by Julia Bird
Published in Twenty-four Seven Blossom, Salt Publishing, 2013
‘Blue Flash Flash’ describes the moment in a child's life in which they learn a new word - octopus - and their neurones act to lock down the knowledge forever. From minuscule beginnings the acquisition of a language is fundamental to our identity. Language gives us words in our mind and describes who we are to ourselves. It is the front of house in our interactions with each other.
Poem: Poem to be Read on One Breath: Blue by Julia Bird
Published in Twenty-four Seven Blossom, Salt Publishing, 2013
- Judges Special Mention, Weimar Poetry Film Award, Backup Festival, Weimar, Germany
- LightUp Poole Digital Light Art Festival 2018: projected onto the Argos Building, Kingland Crescent, Poole.
- 4th Place in Poole Filmpoem competition. Judges comments: "Just pure creativity – and totally unique – I haven’t seen anything like it before..."
- Official Selection, Newlyn Film Festival
- Featured on Poetry Film Live website