Damn, lord, they had some crap like this on Marta buses TV for awhile. I watched it hoping for a bit of a better storyline/more trippy affair that poetry could have with image, especially entertaining for the beginning of sometimes long red-eyed bus rides, but it was just about as cheesy, especially after the first watching/once the eyes clearing kicked in. As for which is the cheesiest of these, hmm...
I guess I'd have to say the animated poem by John Ashbery, though it doesn't seem to be eliciting a response nearly such as 'wth?' as when I saw the one on Marta. The other two really aren't that bad in their intent, its just that how can you capture a movement based on spontaneity and events occurring out of freeness and finding happiness through life's randomness, and put it into a movie clip that flows through construction? Of course, then again, I suppose this begs the question on how to capture that at all without some form of construction and still have people get it, but... hmm. It's hard to criticize others doing what they do they love, and I think these all could have been worse/the video under Ferlinghetti was the least cheesy.
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