Haus für Poesie

I CALL MYSELF YOU

Fatmir Dolci – Deutschland  2012  4:24 min  deutsch / Engl. Sub.  Gedicht: Gedicht Barbara Köhler
In a livingroom, a telephone rings and goes to answering machine, when a woman leaves a message. A very pregnant woman enters the room. The question remains: black or white, on or off?

A SUMMER FOREST’S WHISPER

Anne Scheschonk, Henry Mertens – Deutschland  2011  10:00 min  deutsch/Engl. Sub.   Gedicht: Über Gedichte Holger Helbig
From the fairytale that is connected to the forest of childhood and that will remain alive in our memories forever.

PENTHESILEA (PATHOLOGY)

Evy Schubert – Deutschland  2011  8:47 min  deutsch/Engl. Sub.   Gedicht: Penthesilea Heinrich von Kleist  Gedicht: Heidenröslein Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In a sanitorium in the country the myth floats between timelessness and reality and between hallucination and longing.

BIG CITY LIFE 

Philipp Bremer – Deutschland  2011  0:59 min  deutsch/Engl. Sub.   Gedicht: Großstadt Alfons Petzold
An animated mashup about the city.

WHAT MY HOOD MEANT TO ME

Babette Hnup – Deutschland  2012  4:20 min  deutsch/Engl. Sub.   Gedicht: Was der Kiez für mich war Steffi Neils
On the Reeperbahn, Steffi financed her alcohol and drug addiction as a stripper and a prostitute. To her, this neighborhood was both a home and a hellhole.

PERGAMON POEMS

Constantin Lieb, Felix von Boehm – Deutschland  2011/12  8:53 min  deutsch / Engl. Sub.   Gedicht: Pergamon Poems I – V Gerhard Falkner
Poet Gerhard Falkner transferred the scenes depicted in poems of the Gigantomachy on the frieze that combine the classical aspects of this artwork with the comtemporary work of today.

THE PIANINO

Sophie Reyer – Deutschland    3:15 min  deutsch / Engl. Sub.   Gedicht: stutzflügel Sophie Reyer
About a girl’s childhood whose autoaggressive mother cuts her legs repeatedly.

USER-FEEDBACK LOOP POEM

Johann Reißer, Fabian Faltin – Deutschland  2011  2:50 min  deutsch / Engl. Sub. Gedicht: Benutzer-Rückkoppelungs-Schleife-Gedicht Johann Reißer
Translation of a complex chain reaction and transformation processes, of which lyrical texts signify in the medium of film.

ACHILL

Gudrun Krebitz – Deutschland  2012  9:00 min  englisch, deutsch   Gedicht: Achill Gudrun Krebitz
Unfortunately, real excitement is always out of focus where all joy is buried in a blind rush and hasty perceptions. That’s why I never got my eyes lasered.

MELANCHOLIA

Jan Walentek – Deutschland  2012  4:00 min  deutsch / Engl. Sub.   Gedicht: Sagt Nele Tom Schilling
Being melancholic under circumstances which, seen from a global perspective, would often be perceived as positive and secure.

SIXTH SENSE, THIRD EYE, SECOND FACE

Jan Riesenbeck – Deutschland  2012  15:00 min  deutsch / Engl. Sub.   Gedicht: Sechster Sinn, Drittes Auge, Zweites Gesicht Jan Riesenbeck
An unconventional mixture of fairytale, comedy, science fiction, essay, and drama,; a bulging grab bag full of bizarre ideas.