Collaborative video/poems by poet Mary Kathryn Jablonski & filmmaker Laura Frare* have appeared at Atticus Review, Poetry Film Live (UK), Quarterly West, and Tupelo Quarterly, and have been screened and awarded prizes at three Peoples Pixel Project Film Festivals (hosted by Lake George Arts Project) and screened and shortlisted for the O’Bheal Prize in Cork, IRE.
Jablonski was recently awarded a NYSCA Individual Artists Grant in Poetry and invited Frare to work with her creating a Video Chapbook titled COMPASS, a compilation of nine of their video/poems. Jablonski & Frare worked for over a year on this project about an intensely compelling, idyllic landscape with dark mysteries. The formation of identity, integration of separation, loss, and imperfection, and the reconciliation of memory fuel Jablonski’s work. The Final Presentation for the 2020 Individual Artist Grant in Poetry took place OCT. 23, 2021, 2-3pm at Saratoga Arts, featuring music by Mark Tolstrup, Dan Hubbs and more. “Saratoga Arts made this program possible with an Individual Artist Grant funded by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.”
An excerpt from this digital chapbook recently won BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT in the New York State Writers Institute 2023 Albany Film Festival.
Video/poems by Jablonski & Frare have also been exhibited at Saratoga Arts in the “Then & Now” exhibition, and in the 2018 “Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region” exhibition at SUNY Albany, where juror Jean Shin awarded them both a purchase award (to be included in the SUNY Albany permanent collection), and the Howard J. Cure Juror’s Award, in memory of Marijo Dougherty. Jablonski & Frare also have also had a video/poem included in to 2019 “Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region” exhibition at the Hyde Collection.
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*ABOUT COLLABORATOR LAURA FRARE:
Visual artist, experimental filmmaker and a self-taught multi-instrumentalist, Laura Frare plays a variety of electronic instruments, makes video and audio field recordings, loops, and samples. Her collaborative projects include composing and playing live soundtracks for dance performance and composing original scores for silent film screenings. Since earning her MFA, Laura has worked as an adjunct art professor, art handler, and exhibition installation assistant. Learn more about Laura and view more of her films at her Vimeo page here.
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ARCHIVE OF OUR COLLABORATIVE WORKS:
Look for “Nightjar” a video/poem I made with filmmaker Laura Frare now up at Tupelo Quarterly’s Issue #20.
An unforeseen, yet timely comment on our shared vulnerability and mortality.
Look for “All Souls” and “Two Roads / One Road,” video/poems I made with filmmaker Laura Frare, at Tupelo Quarterly, Issue #23.
Look for “Five Easy Pieces” a video/poem I made with filmmaker Laura Frare now up at Tupelo Quarterly’s Issue #21.
Look for “Death in Winter” a video/poem I made with filmmaker Laura Frare now up at Atticus Review.
SOME EARLIER ADDITIONAL SAMPLES:
I drifted up this morning with this in my ear, an exquisite corpse poem (composed by alternating lines) with Woodstock poet Phillip X Levine, published at Tupelo Quarterly.
Mare Frigoris, published at Quarterly West.
Mare Nubium, featuring music by Saratoga bluesman Mark Tolstrup, published at Atticus Review.
Stone, published at Poetry, Film Live (UK).
These past few days of freezing rains, published at Tupelo Quarterly.
Underrated Bird, published at Poetry, Film Live (UK).