Haus für Poesie

Advent

Peter Bräunig, Sascha Albrecht  Deutschland  2005  4:02 min  deutsch   Gedicht: Advent Loriot
The festival of love: for Christmas night a wife has thought up a special surprise for her incredibly bothersome husband.

Beijing Love

Susanne Krauß  Deutschland  2005  8:42 min  chinOmeU   Gedicht: 6 chinesische Gedichte  div. Autoren
Hope and expectations of six modern Beijing women shown in 2600 years of Chinese love poetry.

Belles Lettres - Mirror Beautiful Letters - Mirror

Kylie Hibbert   Neuseeland  2005  3:23 min  englisch   Gedicht: Mirror Sylvia Plath
By transforming the words into kinetic performance the film seeks to expand typographical conventions of published poetry.

Crève-coeur/ Heart Bleeder

Pierre Santos  Belgien  2006  12:51 min  frzOmeU   Gedicht: Combat de Gauves Pierre Santos
In a bleak, desolate industrial area the paths of people caught up in the monotony of their being cross.

Egidiuslied/ Egidius – Where are you hiding?

Matin-Jan Van Santen  Niederlande  2005  2:30 min  niederl.   Gedicht: Egidiuslied Anonymus
A friend of Egidius makes several attempts at accompanying him in death.

Ik/ Me

Joris Oprins  Niederlande  2006  1:00 min  niederl.   Gedicht: Ik Mark Boog
The main character encouters himself in mirrors. Who is he, and who is me?

Just Say No To Family Values

Antonello Faretta  Italien  2005  4:37 min  eOmitalU   Gedicht: Just Say No To Family Values John Giorno
An elderly local woman of a village in Southern Italy endures defenceless and almost guilty, the new values dictated by a poet.

Kino/Cinema

Angela Zumpe  Deutschland  2005  1:30 min  deutsch   Gedicht: Drei Leben und eine Sekunde Rolf Haufs
The memories of an old man going back to the last minutes with his beautiful wife amidst their Sicilian garden.

Kissing in Hats

Stuart Pound  Großbritannien  2005  1:30 min  englisch   Gedicht: Kissing in Hats Rosemary Norman
A moving path scans a set of four drawings of World War Two lovers, kissing in hats before the men must board their train.

Let us first be friends

Angélica Chio  Deutschland  2006  3:00 min  englisch   Gedicht: Let us first be friends Angélica Chio
Flighty figures looking for each other in the endless metropolis – with a significant amount of contact ad. romanticism.

Love / Censored / Truth

Desiree Lim  Kanada  2005  5:35 min  englisch   Gedicht: Love / Censored / Truth Desiree Lim
A video letter questioning where the lines between actual facts and censored truth fall within a twisted romantic connection.

Love Story

Anne Penders  Belgien  2005  7:30 min  franz.   Gedicht: Love Story Anne Penders
Hypnotic, poetic wandering in the uncertain realms of love.

Mainos asuntolainasta/Advertisement for a Property Credit

Akseli Tuomivaara  Finnland  2005  3:27 min  finnisch   Gedicht: Mainos asuntolainasta Eino Santanen
It is already approaching eight in the evening but there is still some love left.

My Beijing Friend

Nassiem Valamanesh  Australien  2004  5:05 min  chinOmeU   Gedicht: My Beijing Friend Nassiem Valamanesh
We join the main character on a journey into his past as he searches for an old love in the city of Beijing.

Suami o essumuatone maa ja saa asut toise helma reunas/Shape of Finland resembles a pinny and you live on the other side of a hem

Marko Kivioja  Finnland  2006  2:30 min  finnisch   Gedicht: suami o essumuatone maa ja saa asut toise helma Heli Laaksonen
The feeling of loneliness is the ticket for a journey, where first of all, everybody is alone with his longing for something else.

Tausend mm vom Ufer entfernt/Thousand mm away from shore

Wassily Zittel  Deutschland  2006  1:20 min  russisch   Gedicht: Fischaugen Wassily Zittel
A man’s memories of a woman intermingle with his image of this woman.

Tug

David Andrew Ward  Großbritannien  2006  10:00 min  englisch   Gedicht: Original Poetry Heather Dixon
A dark fairytale of revenge and retribution in a remote fishing village in 1890.