Saturday - SCREENING 2
The Blue Candle, Bob Jordan, Director: The Blue Candle is an exploration of the consequences to humanity as a species if we remain insular and fail to move on from Earth. The Blue Candle is also the prequel to a feature film, The Colour of Everything, which is filming in 2021. M/S: Runtime 3:17
How Long Will You Sleep, Marilyn Freedman, Director: Inspired by a troubling meditation on a medieval saint, this spacious poetic film is about consciousness, love, and the filmy air of eternity in the everyday. SW/P: Runtime 5:30
Odyssee, Ode to the City, Jihad Saade, Director: Music/Poetry video, an ode to our wounded city - Beirut. SW/P: Runtime 7:07
Vile Figs, Michèle Saint-Michel, Director: Vile Figs is a poetry film based on the British poet Luke Kennard’s poem of the same name. On its face, this poem considers our complicated relationship with technology and surveillance. More deeply, the work explores notions of belonging and care. SW/P: Runtime 1:55
Shelter at Home Alone, Rani Deighe Crowe, Director: While quarantining during the pandemic, Sherry realizes the challenges in her life have prepared her for sheltering alone during a pandemic. M/S: Runtime 5:00
A Poet’s Seat, Martin Del Carpio, Director: Genre – Poetic Experimental Cinema - “What is an alien?” a man asks amid smoke, shadow, and light. The question is daunting, metaphysical, if you will. We may all feel like outsiders sometimes, but what happens when the feeling is constant? LVM: Runtime 12:17
Consider It Not So Deeply, James Woodward, Director: A dark poetry film based on Carmine Di Biase’s sestina featuring a short retelling of the character Lady Macbeth from Shakespeare’s Macbeth. M/S: Runtime 4:54
Coffee, Diana Taylor, Director: A poet goes into a cafe, see what happens next. SW/P: Runtime 3:30
Impulse, Cameron Currin, Director: IMPULSE, is a poetic experimental film about impulsive addiction. SW/P: Runtime 3:11
Tethered, Gaia Alari, Director: The poem is a selection from Morehead’s debut book “canvas” (Viewless Wings Press, 2021). “tethered” features 2D animation created from 750 drawings. The animation was created for the 9:16 story format. SW/P: Runtime 2:12
The Scapegoat, Iiro Holopainen, Director: A darkly comedic monologue film about a self-isolated, most peculiar woman to whom a curious cinematographer comes to pay a visit. LVM: Runtime 12:43
Black Tears, Greg Flakus, Director: A woman wanders through a cemetery mourning the loss of a friend as the narrator recites a poem about the mystery of death. SW/P: Runtime 0:59
Amazing Grace, Rashad White, Director. SW/P: Runtime 3:38
World’s Between Us, Alrick Huebener, Director: Lines from poems inspired by putting on makeup named after emotions. A letter from today written across 400 years to astronomer Galileo. A man. A woman. The chances for miscommunication are high. SW/P: Runtime 6:19
This is Just to Say, Christiane Hitzemann, Director: A poetry film, in which almost nothing happens, but betrayal. M/S: Runtime 2:00
Farewell, Jade Bangle, Fenfen Huang, Director: A short film for a poem Fenfen Huang wrote paying tribute to her late Aunt. SW/P: Runtime 3:00
Befriend to Defend, Esmé Hicks, Director: Rich feminist poetry and snappy, colorful visuals combine in this 3.5 minute spoken word short. Based on lived experience and featuring over 20 women, the film tackles the notion of the “correct” way to respond to threats and assault. A collaboration between award-winning director Esmé Hicks and actor-writer Sophie Ablett. SW/P: Runtime 3:48
The Use of Words, Cia Rinne, Director: Poet, performer Cia Rinne simultaneously moves through an oblique space and different languages that are split up only to be reassembled. In the dance of the clinamen within languages, words are stripped of their usual context, and as words shift from English to German to French, so do their meanings and connotations. Language as a means of communication no longer seems reliable. M/S: Runtime 7:46
