Haus für Poesie

FLIGHT

Sophie Racine – Belgien  2011  3:46 min  französisch / Engl. Sub.   Gedicht: Ceyx and Alcyone’s Metamorphose Ovid
During her journey, a woman on a train reads Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Images of Ceyx and Alcyone’s metamorphosis overlap with her own memories

LIKE THIS

David Martineau-Lachance – Kanada  2012  3:25 min  englisch   Gedicht: Like This Rumí
This medieval Persian poem is going to take us on a journey with an emotional and contemporary twist.

FROM I TO I

Christopher Holloran – China, Niederlande  2011  7:35 min  chinesisch / Engl. Sub.   Gedicht: From I to I Christopher Holloran
Set in China, the protagonist serves as an element of the ›real‹ until receding from view to let a new paradigm take hold.

YOU’VE ALWAYS BEEN WRONG

Francis Magnenot, Katia Viscogliosi – Frankreich  2011  7:36 min  französisch / Engl. Sub.   Gedicht: Tu t’es toujours trompé René Daumal
You’ve always been wrong. Like me, like every human being. Only in dreams did your spirit travel to the truth. 

GOD SEES ALL

Robert Cahen – Frankreich  2011  11:00 min  französisch / Engl. Sub.   Gedicht: Immersion Patrick Mudekereza
A poem, children, language that splinters and life that passes.

NOMADS

Yagama – Bulgarien, Deutschland  2010  1:59 min  englisch   Gedicht: Nomads Yagama
Traveling keeps the illusion of existence alive, movement – is the only constant in the universe, and when it stops, life itself stops.

SPELEOLOGY

Scott Rankin – USA  2011  9:00 min  englisch   Gedicht: Speleology Duriel E. Harris
An exploration of memory, trauma, and subjectivity.

CLIFTON TO EASTON

Diana Taylor – England  2012  3:56 min  englisch   Gedicht: Clifton to Easton David C. Johnson
Two Suburbs of Bristol joined by a railway line have completely different cultures.

PROOF

Swoon – Belgien  2011  4:10 min  englisch   Gedicht: Proof David Tomaloff
A trip into the mind of a ›dangerous‹ person. Is he a killer, a kidnapper, or merely a victim of his own imagination?

RUNNING

Marcus Richardt – Deutschland  2012  2:15 min  englisch   Gedicht: running Gil Scott-Heron
A paranormal and associative journey through the night.

BETTER DAYS

Alastair Cook – Schottland  2012  2:11 min  englisch   Gedicht: Field Notes Kevin Cadwallender
The film was shot using a retired iPhone 3G and edited using only still image, of which there are 838 in the film. Is this actually a film?

RACING TIME

Ra Page, Adele Myers – England  2012  3:10 min  englisch   Gedicht: Racing Time Chris Woods
In extreme weather conditions, a runner travels across rough terrain to reach his ultimate goal.

THE WOODS

Kristian Pedersen – Norwegen  2012  1:39 min  norwegisch / Engl. Sub. Gedicht: langsdang – et flytans habitat Aina Villanger
Reminiscing on childhood exploration in the woods

WITHOUT YOU 2

Olga Mykhailiuk – Ukraine  2012  8:00 min  ukrainisch, englisch, deutsch   Gedicht: Without You 2 Yuri Anrukhovych
The absurd cycle of loneliness and expectation.

THE CLINIC

Kristian Pedersen – Norwegen  2011  2:36 min  schwedisch / Engl. Sub.   Gedicht: The Clinic Annelie Axén
An obscure walk through the bureaucratic hallways of a dental clinic.

SEA SALT

Amy Schmitt – USA  2010  1:27 min  englisch   Gedicht: Sea Salt David Mason
About what comes to pass, immortalized with a dash of whimsy and terror.

ANDREW WYETH, PAINTER, DIES AT 91

Tom Jacobsen – USA  2011  1:31 min  englisch   Gedicht: Andrew Wyeth, Painter, Dies at 91 L. S. Klatt
Tom Jacobsen buries the headline in L.S. Klatt’s phantasmic pastoral elegy for one of America’s great realist painters.