9th International Video Poetry Festival - Digital Platform
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First – Nikolaus Jantsch – Austria
Archaic images and an abundance of Quotes from fairy tale and legendary literature.
One Sunday in Winter – Martin Sercombe – New Zealand
Animation, poetry and digital painting evoke a winter’s day by the ocean.
Black Lives Do Matter – Dionne D Hunter – USA
“Black Lives Do Matter“ depicts a possible conversation held between an All Lives Matter/Blue lives Matter supporter and a Black Lives Matter Supporter.
Craving – Inken Paland – Germany
Poetry short film about craving the worlds attention by finding it a misunderstanding between who you are and who society wants you to be.
der und die – Peter Boving – Germany
A love poem by Ernst Jandl is the basis for a musical "Tête-à-tête" between a Dresden woman and a Martian.
Genesis – Yasmine H – China
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Believe In Your Murderer – Makis Moulos – Spain
A poem about living your life as an homosexual person in the 21st century.
I am Home – Therese del Mar – England
‘I am Home’ is about the love and acceptance of self and being.
Tu me Manques, Pourquoi. Robertie Valée – France -Switzerland
The regrets and expectations of a couple through poetic letters.
The flying painting and the shadow – Stelios Karatheodorou Greece
The flying painting and the shadow by Stelios Karatheodorou is a psychedelic fairy tale
Sealed Faithful Halls – Anna Fotiadou – Cyprus
Anna Fo is a multidisciplinary artist and educator with specialisation in video art and direction.
Passages – Nathalie Rossetti – Belgium
Passages creates resonances between Benjamin Fondane's oeuvre and Andrei Tarkovsky's and Pier Paolo Pasolini's movies extracts.
Final Rest – Jerin Louis – V.G. Thampy – Canada – India
This is a poetry cinema, which details the last 12 years of an artist who lived a solitary life.
LENS – MUSE – Adam Holoubek – USA
A poet walks through Times Square.
Amergin’s Invocation – Abigail McKern – UK
A video poem which is a translation and interpretation of a 12th Century anonymous poem.
No More Recovery – Nicolò Puppo, Francesco Terzago (Mitilanti) – Alfonso Pierro – Italy
It is a sonorized poetry produced by the association of social promotion "Mitilanti" in collaboration with the composer Michele Mascis.
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Respiro – luisa Carcavale – Italy
A video work which intensely dialogues with the viewer, proposing a highly unsettling visual metaphor.
Untitled Performance – Ruxandra Mitache – Andrei Mitache – Romania
Inspired by the interaction of light through different mediums.
O – Anna Halbleib – Germany
What happens in our presence of over-saturation, over stimulation — of information, images, words — when we seek for tranquility?
Haram – Pater/Son – France
A reflection on our modern society and it's behavior toward sexuality.
Lullaby – Athina Georgia Koumela – Greece
Short animation video, using inspiration from F.G. Lorca’s Blood Wedding.
Asomaton – Mirsini Chatzigeorgiou – Greece
Project Type: Animation, Experimental, Short
Stone Eve – Isabelle Vorle – France
A fascination for the diversity of forms, which human beings from the depths of ages invented to represent figures.
Antimatter – Well Darwin – Brazil
Antimatter is a material composed of so-called antiparticles.
La Séduction Spectrale – Riccardo Ceccherini – Italy
A short film that pays homage to Dali and the free surrealist cinema.
Q di Q – Gianmarco Donaggio – Italy
The film was thought and completed in 48 hours.
Victory – Valentina Ferrandes – UK
The 3D polygonal structure is analyzed and re-meshed according to various parameters.
The Cover – Shahrad Shahvareh – Iran
This short film illustrates just a small part of a transgender's feelings about his body, from a different point of view.
Vecinas – Natalia Sardi – Belgium
A story of two solitudes brought closer by the laws of magnetism.
Zero Dimension – Sunya Madrigal – Mexico
An artistic venture that intervolves the stillness of architecture with the fluidity of dance.
How Long Will You Sleep – Marilyn Freeman – USA
Inspired by a troubled meditation on a medieval saint.
Fairy Tales from the Insubstantial – Julian Semilian – Romania
Beneath the current imperatives, these digitally kinetic paintings wager on the knowledge to be gained from the Unknown and the Unexpected.
DOCUMENTARIES & SHORT FILM ZONE 2021
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Mancunia – Steve Hawley -Michael Symmons Roberts -UK
Moving images drawn from 100 years of Manchester history by Marion Hewitt of the North West Film Archive.
Tape Letters from the Waiting Room – Steven McInerney – UK
An existential drama exploring the universal themes of death and rebirth.
God of Waiting – Amit Saxena – India
A short experimental film based on the pain caused by Migration of People.
A Short Film About Ice – Adam Laity – United Kingdom
A film-poem documenting the journey of a cinematographer through the fragile landscapes of the Arctic.
Fiat Lux – Yorgos Korakianitis – Greece
When night falls, the cities of light open.
A New Normal – Luzie Loose – Germany
A NEW NORMAL is a stereoscopic essay film that examines the question how to go on when everything has changed.
Silence – Sean Lìonadh – UK
In the isolation of lockdown, a lonely young man stays in contact with the outside world through voice messages, sent by friends and lovers.
Messages – Andja Arnebäck – Göran Strömqvist – Sweden
When Göran, 93, retired he made a change and became a poet.
Four Poems – Jason Jenn – USA
Harold Norse was a celebrated queer beat poet who experienced quite a fascinating life.
I painted my fingernails a rainbow – Jason Jenn – USA
Performed during an evening of spoken word hosted by Hank Henderson "homo-centric gets Queer!"
Homeless – Josta Hopps – Sierra Leone
17 homeless, WAYout poets from the streets of Freetown, Sierra Leone came together to produce this film.
Don’t Cry, Dance – Pablo Rojas – Benvenuto Chavajay – Guatemala
A portrait of the inside process of the Latin America's most important contemporary indigenous artist - Benvenuto Chavajay.
Mercy – Marilyn Freeman – USA
A road trip leads Marilyn Freeman to the origins of racism in this meditative video essay about facing the religious roots of white supremacy.
Not Death But Love – Mary Russell – Gerard Wozek – USA
The great English Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning left an indelible mark on the world with her universal sonnet.
Hymns of Three Cities – Lisa Mills – USA
Racial violence remains hidden in the landscape when we cannot come to terms with our past.
Exordium – Laura Knott – Kevin McLellan – USA
The story is told through gestures and text, without dialogue, and no faces are shown.
LECTURES & PERFORMANCE ZONE 2021
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The Poetics of Poetry Film – Sarah Tremlett – UK
Poetry film-maker, poet and theorist Sarah Tremlett is interviewed by author and poetry film-maker Dr Meriel Lland.
I Can’t Breathe – Dionne D Hunter – USA
I Can’t Breathe is a Poem/Spoken Word piece that sums up the similarities between being physically choked to death and spiritually choked to death
Lady Lazarus – Maria Salouvardou – Greece
Lady Lazarus is a Poem by Sylvia Plath. In this artwork the poem is narrated by a female voice while a dancer performs around a sculpture-installation and music specifically created for the poem.
As before, I didn’t do anything – Jin Young Park – Rebublic of Korea
Park presents archives of unexpected past occurrences that happened around the same time, in separate yet similar tracks with some overlaps
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