9th International Video Poetry Festival - Digital Platform
VIDEO POETRY ZONE 2021
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Twenty Times – Caroline Rumley- USA
When it is, or is not, safe to be in your own backyard.
The animal that therefore I am – Bea de Visser – Netherlands
The world will become a better place if we are able to give up the priority position of man and look around us as a human animal that is capable of meeting other species on foot of equivalence.
Her Place – Gustavo Garcia Solares – Guatemala
Gustavo Garcia Solares is a Guatemalan musician and film maker that travels around the world to document and tell the stories of youth led initiatives for social change.
Cover – Ze Mitsos – Greece
Ze is the 2019-2020 National Greek Champion Poetry Slammer.
The Life We Live Is Not Life Itself – Tasos Sagris & WhoDoes – Ian Gibbins – GR – Australia
Tasos Sagris’s poem, with its haunting soundtrack by Whodoes, offers us an extended exploration of lives lived in parallel, at cross-purposes, in and out of love, around the world, from the innocence of children to the wisdom of elders.
Ladies my mother knew – Peter Aland – UK
This film combines images with the poetry of Michael O’Dell to explore the lost mood of a summer holiday at the beach.
Push <> Pull – Lina Ramona Vitkauskas – Canada – US
Codes exist in natural places—in cellular (genetic) structures and realms.
What Would I Say Then – Ross Belot – Canada
A modified pantoum that makes a comment about the end of oil using a refinery in California.
Sinkhole – Dave Richardson – USA
A reflection on my Dad seeing ghosts of people in the corn and on the beauty of ice formations.
Metamorphosis – Marie Craven – Eduardo Yagüe -Australia – Spain
Inspired by a woodcut print by M.C. Escher, Metamorphosis.
The Velvet Abstract – James Hughes – UK
A Short Film About the Environmental Age from a Team Spanning Six Continents.
P.E.A.C.E. – A Spoken Word – Funke Alafiatayo – UK
A short spoken word film that challenges the viewer to take one minute to think about how their small actions could make a massive impact in the world.
A Useful Addition – Anna Fotiadou – Cyprus
It brings together two art forms, text and image, poetry and video, uniting in premeditated chance.
The City is in My Chest – Kazz Torabyeh – Hisham Bustani – Jordan
Hisham Bustani is an award-winning Jordanian author of five collections of short fiction and poetry.
LENS – MUSE – Adam Holoubek – USA
A poet walks through Times Square.
Listen – NSsonic – Sissy Mitsikosta – Greece
Is it a helping hand or just a finger of blame?
VIDEO ART ZONE 2021
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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.
Ophelia – Meike Redeker – Germany
In a river scene, resembling J. E. Millais‘ famous painting of Shakespeare’s dying character Ophelia, the filmmaker appears.
O – Anna Halbleib – Germany
What happens in our presence of over-saturation, over stimulation — of information, images, words — when we seek for tranquility?
Hidden Island – Camille Pueyo – France
The silhouette of a woman wanders in a ghostly landscape, and crosses the image by hiding from those who seek it.
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.
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.
The Universe According to Dan Buckley – Roberto Santaguida – Canada
In the beginning, there was nothing. You can get nothing easily.
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.
Passing 13 Things About Nella Larsen – Maya Han – United States
We are proud to re-release our groundbreaking experimental short film on one of the least known figures of the Harlem Renaissance.
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.
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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