On Friday 7th November 2008, Tate Britain, Pimlico there's a free showing of poetry films. Timings:

Auditorium
19.00-19.30 Screening
20.00-20.45 Screening and Discussion - what happens behind the scenes of a film?
21.00-21.30 Screening

A selection of PoetryFilms including an animation based on 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird by Wallace Stevens; a film by Billy Childish celebrating the life of Dadaist and bicyclist Kurt Schwitters; a film about love and the present directed by the subconscious; and also we go behind the scenes of a spying man with OCD who lives the same routine over and over - soundtrack by Aphex Twin.

Plus, at 8pm, a discussion about the processes of making PoetryFilms with directors of some of the films screened, and editors and writers who have featured at Cannes - chaired by Malgorzata Kitowski, director of PoetryFilm.

Tickets are free but must be collected from the Rotunda information desk - they will be available from 6pm.

http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/eventseducation/lateattatebritain/lateattatebritain2008november.htm