Poem
A poignant short film set to the fourth part of Samuel Beckett's Quatre Poèmes, as narrated by frequent BS Johnson collaborator William Hoyland. The poem is read against a backdrop of associative shots: the head and shol
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A poignant short film set to the fourth part of Samuel Beckett's Quatre Poèmes, as narrated by frequent BS Johnson collaborator William Hoyland. The poem is read against a backdrop of associative shots: the head and shol
A couple rediscovers each other through a conversation that neither of them is ready to end.
Second version of the video-poem "Visual Text: Finger Poem" (1968), by Valie Export, conceived after the eponymous photo poem from 1968: "I say what is shown in showing what is said" (freely adapted from Martin Heidegger
This bizarre poem follows a seemingly tranquil date night that goes horribly wrong…
A rigidly devoted young servant lives in a decaying aristocratic household as its members drift toward modernity, hedonism, and financial collapse. While the family quarrels over the fate of their estate, he clings to tr
Valie Export breathes heavily at the video camera lens while slowly moving her face across it, fogging up the entire space with her lung’s volume. Her piece takes Olson’s breathy poem ‘Gli Amanti’ a step further, not jus
An influential Serbian poet decides to leave Nazi-occupied Belgrade and join partisans in the country. A young resistance activist, however, is not so thrilled with the idea because the old and womanizing intellectual do
An ode to my daily environment, and to the presences of two beings: one arrived recently, the other recently left. The images merge in dreamlike passages that reveal the infinity of the potentials of vision within the fi
Amid an ecological crisis in Indonesian agriculture, a farmer's Javanese practices and poetic expressions offer a quiet resistance and a vision of living in harmony with the land.
Water Poem is an experimental documentary short film in which a Vietnamese trans man recites a poem as images drift and shift beneath words, in an exploration of water against boundaries of time. A meditation on transnes
Pablo Olivares is a lively and talented child born into a Christian family. His mother, Carmen, devotes her time to teach him biblical principles and cultivates in him a love for music. His father, Roberto, spends most o
An inspiring and timely tale about a 12-year-old Syrian refugee girl named Lamya. When she flees the violence of her country, she is given a book of poetry of the famous 13th-century Poet, Rumi. As the perils of her jour
In this film, David Perry scratched onto celluloid the numbers of a poem by Kurt Schwitters, which were projected beside the actor reciting it.
What feels like an ordinary weekend outing, paying a visit to grandpa, a young couple gets into a heated argument exposing their resentments, past lies, an old lover, a missed birthday, a possible divorce and a death. Bu
A poet's rhapsody of doom.
Two teenage boys try to summon a demonic entity while live streaming on TikTok in an attempt to go viral.
Two girls go from home to business stealing mail and packages in search of something mysterious.
Experimental animation.
Salomé is afraid that she does not know her limits. The reason for this is an event from her past that haunts her to this day. When it comes to a quarrel with her boyfriend, she shows a previously unknown side.