Haus für Poesie

A Yarn

Min Cooper
United Kingdom  2005  1:32 min  englisch
Poem: A Yarn  Therese Woodiwiss
A story told in words that sound the same but have different meanings.

Aan Rika /To Rika

Juan De Graaf
Netherlands  2005  2:30 min  niederl.
Poem: Aan Rika  Piet Paatjens
Piet does not only miss his train, but also the love of his life.

Belles Lettres - Mirror/Beautiful Letters - Mirror

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

Carnivore Reflux

Eddie White, James Calvert
Australia  2006  7:00 min  englisch
Poem: Carnivore Reflux  Eddie White
A gastronomical, phantasmagorical nightmare from another time about a little known condition brought on by carnivorous excess.

Corollary

Ian William Gouldstone
United Kingdom  2004  2:00 min  englisch
Poem: Corollary  Ian W. Gouldstone
About the atrophy of a theoretical math education.

Du+Ich /You+Me

Lale Nalpantoglu, Jens Schillmöller (Regieduo le:Forel)
Germany  2005  5:00 min  deutsch
Poem: nichts weiter als  Arne Rautenberg
Young girls in that magic moment between childhood and puberty, when adults are a distant species and boundaries do not exist.

Everyday Doctor

Kilian Görl
Germany  2005  3:41 min  eOmdtU
Poem: Everyday Doctor  Kilian Görl
A doctor a day keeps the apple away?

The Face of Peace

Sheon (Se-Hyung) Park
South Corea  2005  7:00 min  englisch
Poem: Arlrang   koeranisches Volkslied
The fantastic creative ability of nature becomes a never-ending circle of constant transformation and return.

Map of the Underground

Hywel Griffith
United Kingdom  2005  3:43 min  englisch
Poem: 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.

Oedipus

Rong
United Kingdom  2005  6:00 min  englisch
Poem: Oedipus  Nathan Filer
No film called Oedipus will ever end happily.
A hand warming tale of lust, incest, death...

Of burning Hills

Jason White
Canada  2004  6:09 min  englisch
Poem: Burning Hills  Michael Ondaatje
In the loneliness of his cottage a poet regales on his memories and returns on this time journey to the love of his youth.

Podorozhni/Wayfarers

Igor Strembitskyy
Ukraine  2005  10:00 min  russOmeU
Poem: We all dream of a big, great love  Stepan Shchipachov
About childhood that never returns, dreams that can`t come true and madness as a kind of happiness.

Poetic Motion

Andrew Gribble
USA  2006  3:07 min  englisch
Poem: Is this / Untitled / Great Nations of Europe  Andrew M. Gribble
An immersion into a world that is at once familiar and strange, real and unreal.

Polder

Anja Hiddinga
Netherlands  2005  4:00 min  englisch
Poem: Polder  Anja Hiddinga, Leendert Pot
A declaration of love to the expanse of the Dutch polder landscape.

Some Days

Julian Grey
Canada  2005  1:06 min  englisch
Poem: Some Days  Billy Collins
Miniature figurines such as those found in railroad set act in a spooky model house containing both real and surreal elements.

Spur /Track

Hubert Sielecki
Austria  2006  3:30 min  deutsch
Poem: Spur  Karin Spielhofer
In numerous repetitions the ego tries to get its way of seeing and hearing out of the usual track.

Unfed

Jason Lam
Australia  2005  6:25 min  englisch
Poem: Cusping I-V  Gareth Sion Jenkins
The painful eagerness of unfed hope: about the hidden inner landscape of our longing for connection, meaning and love.

Werkster/Charlady

Lucette Braune
Netherlands  2005  2:30 min  niederl.
Poem: Werkster  Gerrit Achterberg
A cleaning lady spends her life close to the ground. Hopefully, in heaven things will be better.