Haus für Poesie

458nm

Tom Weber, Jan Bitzer, Ilija Brunck Deutschland  2006  6:38 min  ohne Dialoge  Gedicht: Herbst Theodor Storm
The moonlight meeting of two cyber snails culminates in violent coitus interruptus.

Wie ich mich traf /Meeting me

Angela Steffen  Deutschland  2004  4:41 min  deutsch   Gedicht: Wie ich mich traf Angela Steffen
Close your eyes and imagine you were flying – a story of the discovery of the world and of one‘s own diversity.

Der Verrückte, das Herz und das Auge /The Tell-Tale Heart

Annette Jung, Gregor Dashuber  Deutschland  2006  8:00 min  deutsch   Text:  The Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allan Poe
Disgusted with the scaring eye of his father, Ed hatches the awful plan to free himself forever from the abhorred organ of sight.

To A Man With A Big Nose

Cecilia Aranovich  USA  2005  3:12 min  englisch   Gedicht: A un Hombre con una Gran Nariz Francisco De Quevedo y Villegas
A disproportional big nose, which comes to life and decides to go on a strange journey, dragging its poor little frustrated owner.

A throwaway coincidence that determined everything

Paul Leyton  Deutschland  2004  1:30 min  englisch   Gedicht: A throwaway coincidence that determined everything Rozalie Hirs
A visual poem on the theme of nature reclaiming artificial environments, searching for somewhere to live.

The Spirit of Blossom

Chion Alan   Taiwan  2006  1:50 min  chinesisch   Gedicht: Ballads of four Seasons: Summer Li Bai
A dazzling dancing scene of exhilarating spring blossom after a thunderstorm is presented in traditional Chinese painting technique.

rr ii

Jörg Piringer  Österreich  2006  3:05 min  ohne Dialoge   Gedicht: rr ii Jörg Piringer
The speech sound “R” is the protagonist in a visual sound experiment.

Reimgekritzel/Rhymescribbles

Tilo Spalke  Deutschland  2006  2:00 min  deutsch   Gedicht: Dunkel war’s Anonymus
Rhyming paradoxes seem to rule with ease a fantasy world which never stops.

Olematu Olek/Nonexistent Status

Andres Tenusaar  Estland  2006  8:00 min  estnOmeU   Gedicht: Spring in Astrahan Kristiina Ehin
From nonexistent state to nonexistent.

Morgenlicht/Morning light

Andree Volkmann  Deutschland  2006  1:05 min  deutsch   Gedicht: As if i asked a common Alms  Emily Dickinson
In what seems to be unintended and absent-minded, a young man recites Emily Dickinson.

Map of the Underground

Hywel Griffith  Großbritannien  2005  3:43 min  englisch   Gedicht: The Underground Map
Ifor ap Glyn
A virtual journey through the London Underground network in the rush hour becomes a journey through the human body.

Helomskie obychai /Khelom's customs

Irina Litmanovich  Russische Föderation  2005  5:00 min  russOmeU   Gedicht: Helomskie obychai Ovsei Driz
A mournful celebration of the fact that problems never end.

Grasmaaier /Lawnmower

Udo Prinsen  Niederlande  2006  1:00 min  niederl.   Gedicht: Grasmaaier Martin Reints
Sometimes it’s hard to fall asleep, even when you are tired. And shadows start coming at you from the walls …

Generation

David Downes  Neuseeland  2004  13:15 min  englisch   Gedicht: Generation David Downes
A journey through dream images of electricity, work, human touch, birth, death, and escape.

The Face of Peace

Sheon (Se-Hyung) Park  Süd-Korea  2005  7:00 min  koreanisch   Gedicht: Arlrang  korean. Volkslied
The fantastic creative ability of nature becomes a never-ending circle of constant transformation and return.

The boy with no name

Adam Smith  Großbritannien  2005  5:36 min  englisch   Gedicht: The boy with no name Adam Smith
A tale of the loneliness and exclusion of a troubled soul, trapped in a world which he feels he does not belong to.