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PRISM: Interrelations
Saturday, 5.11. 7.30 pm, Kino in der Kulturbrauerei
Hosted by: Ricardo Brunn
Alongside the International Competition, the festival offers an insight into the sheer diversity of the poetry film scene in nine programs featuring about 100 animations, feature films, experimental films, and documentaries. With modern myths and well-known fairy tales, filmmakers and poets explore urban space or report on destinies and adventures. Films offer a platform for female voices from over seven centuries. Urban and natural landscapes are scrutinized, explored, rediscovered. A new focus on social interaction, where a dot on the forehead, an impairment, origin, sexual orientation or skin color continuously trigger conflict.
Content note: The films in this programme may contain explicit depictions of physical and/or psychological violence as well as various kinds of assault. Please be aware that these depictions may trigger survivors and may thus prove harmful to their mental health.
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FILMS
AIR
FRA 2022 | 3 min
R·D: Juliette Laboria
G·P: Air
D·P: Robert Desnos
Breath, symbol of freedom. The literal immersion in childhood experiences, nature, play, and connection with others. A summer fantasy with pine trees, cicadas, and lakes. French animation, freely adapted from the poem “Air” by Robert Desnos.
RODENT
IRL 2022 | 2 min
R·D: Luke Morgan
G·P: Rodent
D·P: Luke Morgan
A boy wants to give away his heart, but a mouse is inhabiting it. Poetry clip based on the poem “Rodent” by Irish author Luke Morgan. There's a strange rodent in the heart, it scurries and scurries and finds peace only with you.
WHEN I FELL
CAN 2022 | 3 min
R·D: Jessica Sanchez, Marissa Aurora
G·P: When I Fell
D·P: Misha Maseka
When I fell, you didn't hold me. Disappointed love, velvet armchairs, red wine, hair extensions. Stage settings, clichéd roles, and the glances around them. Experimental visuals by Canadian musician Lemba, before the backdrop of Alberta's vast prairielands.
ONCE I PASSED
DEU 2022 | 10 min
R·D: Martin Gerigk
G·P: Once I passed through a populous City
D·P: Walt Whitman
Collaged film based on Walt Whitman's poem “Once I Passed Through a Populous City,” first published in 1880. An aphoristic account of a romantic relationship. To this day it is often not mentioned that this involved a man. Passionate plea for this quiet love.
FABIEN
FRA 2021 | 10 min
R·D: Pierre Guiho
G·P: L’Automne
D·P: Alphonse de Lamartine
In the late autumn of life: long corridors, concrete-colored rooms in a nursing home, a bookcase. French film parable after the poem “L' automne” by Alphonse de Lamartine, about the power and generosity of beauty, sexuality, youth, and poetry that resonates with us to the very end.
HE’S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU
USA 2021 | 5 min
R·D: Matthew Thompson
G·P: He's just not that into You
D·P: Ciara Ní É
Irish poet Ciara Ní É takes us on a walk through a quiet Dublin suburb and performs her poem “He's Just Not That Into You.” Poetry clip that solves—once and for all—the mystery of why your date won't call you back.
SAVE THE QUEEN
GBR 2022 | 4 min
R·D: Chrissie Hyde, Lucie Rachel
G·P: Save the Queen
D·P: 1990s Chris
Let's talk about alcohol! Drinking as a central part of British identity. “Save the Queen” is the drinking game and the name of queer British author Chrissie Hyde’s poem, one that juxtaposes male desires and rituals.
AUDITORY
USA 2022 | 2 min
R·D: David Sampliner
G·P: Auditory
D·P: James Hoch
To encounter war’s cruelty and the woundedness of guilty soldiers with tenderness. Peter Maloney hauntingly recites James Hoch's American antiwar poem “Auditory.”
ETERNAL WHILE IT LASTS
GBR 2021 | 2 min
R·D: Demi Wu
G·P: Eternal while it Lasts
D·P: Demi Wu
Why stay together if you can't—like this couple can—smile at each other, deeply in love after 16 years? A course in relationship maintenance, especially for the pandemic era. Chinese-British watercolor animation based on the poem “Eternal while it lasts” by Lucia Moriano.
LE RIRE / THE LAUGH
FRA 2021 | 3 min
R·D: Capucine Gougelet
G·P: Le Rire
D·P: Andrée Chedid
Only laughter makes one human. French animated film about the inconceivability of a world without joy—rousing, colorful, trumpeting, to the poem “Rire” by Andrée Chedid. Existence as a playground, sadness-slapstick, and ballet.
DANCE TILL DÁN
IRL 2022 | 6 min
R·D: Lorna Fitzsimons
G·P: Dance Till Dán
D·P: Fatima Groups United
Say it with gestures, say it with colors. Performance film about an inclusive poetry and dance project from Dublin, with Irish poems compiled by Catherine Ann Cullen, Poetry Ireland's first poet-in-residence. A celebration of joy and self-discovery qua poetry.
CONEXIÓN DÉBIL / WEAK CONNECTION
ECU 2022 | 5 min
R·D: José Cardoso
G·P: Conexión Débil
D·P: Rey Vegui, Boris Vian
Amidst the pandemic, connected only with screens, this film sings of the need to maintain community with others. Joy-inspiring rap video from Ecuador to the poem “Conexión Débil” by Rey Vegui and musician Boris Vian (who was named after Boris Vian).