9th International Video Poetry Festival - Digital Platform
VIDEO POETRY ZONE 2021
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A Summary – Ntombi Masuku – Zimbabwe
Ntombi expresses how feelings of anxiety and mediocrity come down to one thing, insecurity.
Destiny – Lina Bingi – Gregory Corso – Austria – USA
This video poem is tribute to Gregory Corso.
Colour Poem – Ingrid Gans – Ernst Jandl – Germany – Austria
The text is very much fueled in this animation by the rhythmic composition of Izabella Effenberg - a Polish jazz musician.
Personal Odyssey – Panida Petchara – Thailand
Spending one month and a half on Trans-Mongolian Railway trip, with over 7,500 km in total.
There is No Off – Jack Collier – USA
A visual pantoum depicting the relationship of people and LCD screens.
Zuerst First – Jim Hall – US
A contrapuntal collision of sound, imagery, and words.
Vote – Jami Ramberan – Suzen Baraka – USA
Set in our nation’s capital, VOTE is a visual call to arms, highlighting the devastating contradictions that so many in America are experiencing right now.
Elegy – Jonathan Lipkin – James Hoch – USA
It is a single track video that sets the poem, an elegy for a friend, in relation to ocean and ice landscapes.
A Poetry Anthology: The Velvet Night – Anthony Martinez – United States
A surreal vision of a woman that walks the streets of LA in the evening.
Φ – Marieta Landkroon – Netherlands
φ is a 1-minute film (entirely shot with a mobile phone) about the search for balance in response to climate change.
Posthumous Echoes: Birds Fall, Friends Fly – Dr Fiona Walsh – Australia
A video poem about relationships between people, birds and plants.
Descent – Janet Lees – Isle of Man
Apart from the occasional linking word, I made this poem entirely from perfume brand names.
20 Years Later – Aaron Weinstein – USA
It's time for one final scale
Red Watch – David Kennedy – US
In this snappy spoken-word short film saturated in primary colours, a woman recites an unrequited goodbye to her ex-boyfriend’s red watch.
Bones – Kathleen Quillian – Quin de la mer – USA
"Bones" stitches together the in-between moments from several different found home movies to highlight the small, forgotten moments that fill in the spaces between memories.
Novena – Shirley Camia – Canada
After a death in the family, the surviving members begin a traditional ritual as a form of honour and healing.
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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