DANGER OF DEATH

On a hot summer day, I saw something special in a park. I pulled out my smartphone and filmed the scene for ten minutes. In a simple montage, I wrote a poem to accompany it. Before I knew it, I had something that became more than the parts separately: a calm mixture of footage and text, in which one can feel the tension a) between 'courageously persevering against the wild current' and 'letting yourself drift along nicely' and b) between the hesitant, doubting outsider and the daredevils in real life.’’ Paul Bogaert

Paul Bogaert

Is a poet from Belgium (°1968 in Brussels) with 6 classic collections until now, who also makes poetry films now and then. All details can be found here: https://www.paulbogaert.be/gedichten/english/

Credit: Translation from Dutch (original title: LEVENSGEVAAR) into English by: Astrid Alben.