Sunday 19 April, 5:00pm – Pay What You Can £24.00 / £21.00 / £18.00

This event is live captioned | 1h 30m

Can images be poetic? Is there storytelling in a poem? How does poetry speak the language of the unconscious?

In this anarchic and free-ranging conversation, Charlie Kaufman and Eva H.D. explore the cinematic shorthand of poetry – a necessarily compact sequence of images – and the poetic expansiveness of film, where the juxtaposition of image and language creates new and unexpected meaning. Along the way, they will touch on art, politics, stagnation, creative inspiration – and anything else that glitters from the depths.

After an introduction, we begin with a screening of How to Shoot a Ghost (27m, N/C 15), directed by Charlie Kaufman and written by Eva H.D. Starring Jessie Buckley, Josef Akiki and Ioannis Bakogeorgos, the film follows two newly dead young people wandering through Athens, finding unexpected consolation in the strange beauty of existence and its aftermath.

Eva H.D.’s most recent book is The Natural Hustle; she also wrote the “Bonedog” poem in I’m Thinking of Ending Things and translates Greek poetry.

Charlie Kaufman is the writer of films including Being John Malkovich and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and writer-director of Synecdoche, New York and I’m Thinking of Ending Things. His most recent film is How To Shoot A Ghost.