Frame to Frames : Your Eyes Follow

by Sarah Tremlett

Frame to Frames : Your Eyes Follow / Cuadro a cuadros : tus ojos siguen is a bilingual ekphrastic poetry book with a QR link to a 17-film screening of poetry films made from the poems. The concept of a book + film arose from Sarah Tremlett’s Frame to Frames : Your Eyes Follow ekphrastic poetry film prize, where poetry filmmakers respond to works of art. The 2023 edition II of the prize was screened at FOTOGENIA Film Poetry and Divergent Narratives Film Festival, Mexico City in December 2023. The accompanying colour publication of the poems, synopses and stills from the QR-linked films alongside artists’ biographies, was also launched at the same time, under the imprint Poem Film Editions (co-founded by Sarah Tremlett and Hungarian poetry filmmaker and translator Csilla Toldy). The festival painting Huapango Torero (see book cover) by non-binary Mexican artist Ana Segovia was selected by Sarah Tremlett as a prompt, and was chosen by many of the artists. This painting (a revision of an original work), where a boy holds a flower up to a bull, is a call to end animal cruelty, machismo, and bullfighting.

About the Artist

Sarah Tremlett is a prizewinning, British poetry filmmaker, poet, artist and theorist. She is author of ‘the groundbreaking industry bible The Poetics of Poetry Film, (Intellect, 2021) available in over 650 academic libraries alone, worldwide. She is editor of Liberated Words and founded the Frame to Frames : Your Eyes Follow ekphrastic poetry film prize and bilingual poetry + films anthology. Sarah is also the author of Horse-Woman, (Basic Bruegel, 2025) a poetic ‘otherkin’ traumatic but healing memoir, that includes her early paintings, created whilst working as a fashion model and living in 1970s London bedsit land.