Renga (1989)

• 77%
• 1989
• Erik Anderson
• Paul Baker
• Nathaniel Dorsky
• Kurt Easterwood
• Bud Lassiter
• Geoffrey Luck
• Alan Mukamal
• Dena Penniston
• Laura Poitras
• Kim Tempest
• Eric Theise
• John McGeehan

"Renga is a linked-verse form of Japanese poetry that, though still practiced today, reached its peak between the 13th and 16th centuries. It is characterized by being a group composition, typically in the presence of judges and an audience, with poets rapidly contributing stanzas such that each new stanza addresses only the previous stanza; there is no overarching plot development, and the overall structure is a chain, not a conventional, linear narrative… In 1989, I had the great privilege to be involved in a film renga that was produced in the graduate film seminar led by Nathaniel Dorsky at the San Francisco Art Institute.