Haus für Poesie

1700% Project: Mistaken Muslim

Masahiro Sugano USA 2010 5 min english poem: 1700% Anida Yoeu Ali

The video blends narrative, music, and poetry to intervene against the racial profiling of Muslims in post-9/11 America.

Chicory 'n' Coffee

Dušan Kastelic Slovenia 2008 8:17 min slovOmeU poem: Cikorja an' kafe Iztok Mlakar

How we are unable to tell people we are close to how much we love them - until it is too late.

Fragmented

Khanyisile Mbongwa / James Tayler South Africa 2009 04:53 min english poem: Fragmented Khanyisile Mbongwa

Two women can't quite meet and can't quite let go. One gay, one straight, one black, one of mixed race. The spaces they inhabit connect them, and yet become the thing that separates them from each other.

I Know You

Gudrun Krebitz Germany 2009 3:54 min english poem: I Know You Gudrun Krebitz

An unanswered call, an attempt to dance, a knife in the drawer. I know you - do you know who you're dealing with?

Me, Your Nicotine

Mariola Brillowska Germany 2009 3:40 min dtOmeU poem: Ich Dein Nikotin Mariola Brillowska

She can't breathe without him. He is the nicotine that she is addicted to. She can't live without him.

Electrified

Tomas Tamkvaitis Lithuania 2010 4:40 min english poem: (Esu) ielektrinta Gabriele Labanauskaite

A collaboration between AVaspo and the Lithuanian fashion designer Airida Skrickiene. Fashion meets poetry.

I Call Myself Sane

Niina Suominen Finland 2010 finnOmeU 4:20 min poem: Kutsun Itseäni Terveeksi Teemu Hirvilammi

An experimental work combining poetry, music and images, presented along with manipulative film material.

LYMS

Ottar Ormstad Norway 2009 7:40 min norOmeU poem: LYMS Ottar Ormstad

An untraditional multi-language project. The viewer has to experience the poems from his own language background, and gets a different, personal experience.

My Heart is a Bouquet...

Delphine Burrus France/USA 2010 4:32 min franzOmeU poem: Mon coeur est un bouquet... Baron Jacques d`Aldeswärd-Fersen

Through a lyrical poem in praise of LOVE the singer is finally able to free herself.

New Word Order

Grischa Göddertz Germany 2010 10 min english poem: Globalisation Jazz`min Tutum

Dub Soundscape, pulsing words and voices against a starkly urban, yet undeniably human landscape. Is it really a New World Order or just A New Word Order?

Piñata

Elena Knox/ Lindsay Webb Australia 2009 6:45 min poem: Piñata Elena Knox

Piñata calls into question the veracity of oral narratives, cultural purity, pastoral appropriation, patriarchy, and true love, and does it all with an axe.

Remix This

Rupert Owen Australia 2009 3:46 min english poem: Remix This Rupert Owen

A seemingly insignificant poem that finds its way into the charts through the underground nightclub scene.

Walking in Plastic

Kai Lossgott South Africa 2009 6 min english poem: Insanity Bandile Gumbi

The memory of a wounded woman, a dream for an absent father, and a dance in a street market for survival - ritual stories of the heartache of the slums.

What Remains

Jason Lam Australia 2010 5:35 min english poem: Gunk Mother Gareth Sion Jenkins

The film explores the uneasy zone between pleasure and pain; love and possession; connection and abandonment.