“Community of the Imagination”: International Writing Program Film
Internet Explorer users: click video twice to play
An archive file of the film Community of the Imagination, produced by Gerald Krell in 1973, is now available online. The hour-long documentary was commissioned by the United States Information Agency, one of the early funders of the IWP. Its producer and director Gerald Krell and his crew came to Iowa City in winter of 1973, shot for about a week, then completed the production at the USIA facilities in Washington DC. The film was then shipped to US Embassies world-wide and shown locally, at screenings or via broadcast media. After years in the vaults it has surfaced. The video provides a rich trove of IWP history and an ingenious perspective on the writers.
The writers in the 1973 residency:
AMADI, Elechi - Nigeria
AMPATZOGLOU, Petros - Greece
ASHOKAMITRAN, J. Thyagarajan - India
BLANDIANA, Ana - Romania
BRAUN, Andrzej - Poland
BRAVO, José Antonio - Perú
CHEUNG, Dominic - Hong Kong
CHOE, In-hoon - South Korea
COSTA, Flavio Moreira - Brazil
DOMINGUEZ, Luis - Chile
GERGELY, Ágnes - Hungary
GUBEGNA, Abbie - Ethiopia
HADI, Abdul - Indonesia
HOWELL, Anthony - United Kingdom
KARPOWICZ, Tymoteusz - Poland
LAPINSKI, Zdzislaw - Poland
MORENO, Virginia R. - Philippines
NAZARETH, Peter - Uganda
POPESCU, Petru - Romania
RAWSON, Alicia Dellapiane - Argentina
RUSAN, Romulus - Romania
SHIRAISHI, Kazuko - Japan
VANEGAS, Teodoro - Ecuador
VENTURA, Adao – Brazil
YU, Tien-t’sung – Taiwan
Hualing NIEH ENGLE
Paul ENGLE
International Writing Program website
In:
Authors:
Date Recorded: July 09, 2009
Program: --
Format: performance
Topics: International Writing Program, history, Cultural Exchange, Iowa City