Saturday, December 17 - SCREENING 2 - 1:00 PM - 2:45 PM (PST)
Mind Racing, Kyle M Wegler, Director: A short film expressing the intense experience runners face when racing. Youth M/P: Runtime: 1:55
Hereditary, Scott A. Galeski, A young teenage girl from Downriver Detroit Michigan shares her hardships in the poetic piece. Youth M/P: Runtime: 2:36
Fear Abides, Nightly Glistens, Mark Soltert, Director: Perhaps Mr. Baldivino’s life of small violent desperations has finally worn itself out, and the ritual of prey and succor, this unquenchable thirst for life has come to an end. Or will a new beginning lie in the hands of a long-lost friend? LVM: Runtime: 12:00
"Abuelita," Joe West, Director: Radical and genre-exploding, "Abuelita" wields poetry, music, optical effects, and film to create a multidimensional celebration of a grandmother, like so many other timeless family matriarchs, whose impact transcends her life. SW/P: Runtime: 4:52
Like The Air, Marilyn Freeman, Director: Blending poetry and nonfiction media art, Like the Air, is a spacious meditation on love, loss, reflection, and resiliency. M/S Runtime: 5:00
A Rescues Song, Kimberly Villarruel, Director: A veteran saves a lost dog and in doing so saves both of them. SW/P: Runtime: 4:28
Our Obsession, Jesse Roth, Director: Our obsession' was written in response to the growing concerns of social media and celebrity culture on young people. It's a spoken word poem that has been adapted into a short film. Much of the script was written from real-life experiences! SW/P: Runtime: 2:35
Changing skin, Maxime Coton, Director: We are little miracles. Tiny ones, even, who never stop shedding our skins, over and over. The world settles in our sweat. Alone, though, with no memory of what drove us into this life that jealous people claim is ours. Forgotten, skins fall one after another, like caresses that—much more than our cells, in truth—create them, these skins, which are neither ours nor those of others, regardless of the energy that we spend, at night, exchanging them. SW/P: Runtime: 6:30
Some Advice, Cormac Culkeen, Director: Some Advice | A poetry film by Cormac Culkeen. SW/P: Runtime: 0:48
#blacklivesmatter, One Single Rose, Director: The struggle we face for racial equality has been ongoing for over 400 years. After so many lives have been lost due to systemic racism and police brutality, I penned a piece entitled #blacklivesmatter chronicling a few moments in our history. Unfortunately, in 2020, this piece is timely and more names continue to be added to the list of black lives taken from us. 2020 has brought support for #blacklivesmatter from all over the globe. WE NEED CHANGE YESTERDAY! One day, I hope to be able to retire this piece. Until then, I'll stay on my knees for us with pen afire, because writing is what I do... SW/P: Runtime: 7:00
Infinite, Nils Witt, Director: Infinite deals with a person's journey, representative of the current development of mankind, along key locations. These represent the modern understanding and handling of nature as well as nature itself. This is an inner as well as an outer journey. M/S: Runtime: 9:00
Monologo sull'esistenza, Luca Arcidiacono, Director: M/S: Runtime 8:59
A Dialogue With Georgia O'Keeffe III: The Simple Truth of Light, Patricia L. Meek, Director: The third poem in a five-poem series inspired by the 20th-century American master painter, Georgia O'Keeffe and explores metaphysical wisdom(s) for the 21st Century. SW/P: Runtime: 3:49
Flow, Ockert Greeff, Director: Ockert Greeff, a South African Canadian drummer, uses drums and words to create rhythmic poems, relying on some of the earliest oral and musical traditions - drumming, storytelling, chanting, and rhymes. His video series employs the most basic filming techniques -- typically hand-held mobile phone and single shots -- to create a dialogue with his stripped-down rhythmic poems. SW/P: Runtime: 2:25
Advantages of NOT Being in the Same Room, Geoffrey Alexander Altrocchi, Director: At Station House Reading Series, each week we create a group poem where all participants anonymously write one line devoted to an agreed-upon theme or title. This group poem was written by roughly 25 people and took place in the middle of the quarantine. Its core theme seemed to be about longing for connection in an otherwise disconnected existence, and much like the tale of Tristan and Isolde, director Geoffrey Altrocchi constructed a visual story complimenting the given text by having its hero write a love letter on a paper airplane, then send it aloft to find its way to his soulmate. SW/P: Runtime: 5:00
Quetzalcoatl Path: Sacrifice, Stephanie Reid, Director: A video poem that pays homage to the story of the Mesoamerican god, Quetzalcoatl, by comparing it with the trials of sacrifice that immigrants make for their families. Animation and video are set to "The Leaves Were Furious" written and spoken by Enrique Cabrera. SW/P: Runtime: 4:08
Master of None, Zoé Mahfouz, Director: A 1 Minute monologue from Master of None by Aziz Ansari. M/S: Runtime: 1:00
Unmasked, Rani Deighe Crowe, Director: A woman is asked to wear a mask during the Covid pandemic. M/S: Runtime 1:30
Bad Attitude [Punk-Ass-Bitch] John Horan, Director: Shorty poetry film by John Horan. SW/P: Runtime 1:59
Atardecer Milwaquiano, Alex Gambacorta, Director: A love letter to Milwaukee that highlights the hidden stories that live in our memories. M/S: Runtime 3:10
On the Other Side, Ryan E. Torgeson, Director: A short film set against the visual collage artistry of Kellie Richardson and her original poem “A Sweet Shot in the Arm.” In this interpretation of the poem, a poet queen, caught between two worlds, finds a crack in her static and dimensionless black-and-white world to deliver a life-affirming message. As she peels back layers of rigid flat walls, the poet uncovers a colorful living collage world beneath— full of promise, passion, and ancestral roots. Through her poetry, Kellie invites her audience to lean in, reach further and look deeply within themselves to understand the multiple truths and joy that exist beyond societal expectations of the world today. SW/P: Runtime: 3:24
Monologue - Daniel Bristol, Director: The Birds and the Bees by Mark Crawford. M/S: Runtime: 4:32
We Can Be Pirates, Sven Andrew Stears, Director: We Can Be Pirates is a story of hope, and unity, in the face of trauma. SW/P: Runtime: 5:1
