On-Demand 

Virtual Screening Session 1 - LineUp

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You Are Beside Yourself, Steven Serna, Director.

You Are Beside Yourself is an intimate portrait of the modern consciousness: a mind under unending pressure and the private noise that comes with being pushed in too many directions, arriving late to a moment you’ve been long waiting for, and trying to interpret a present that won’t hold still. Poem: You're pushed in all different directions all the time. Sometimes because of who you are and sometimes for no reason at all, by the time you catch up, the world around you has already changed. 

Steven is a videographer, video editor, colorist, graphic and web designer, musician, artist, and filmmaker living in Canada. Runtime: 4:46

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Infernal Navigations, Orlando Cubitt, Director

Baal: amateur historian, recreational angler, ancient spirit. He knows the history of the world but not his place in it. His tale takes us from Ancient Egypt to the present day. A story of the post-pastoral leaching of time itself. Orlando is an alumni of Creative England and Film London shorts schemes. Runtime: 6:37

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Climb, Jan Hovers, Director  

A short film in which Jan Hovers speaks about his love for the mountains and a recurring dream.
The painting Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer (The Wanderer above the Sea of Fog) by Caspar David Friedrich inspired his composition Climb.
An animation made with cardboard, chalk, and vintage postcards – a poetic reflection on longing, elevation, and the power of imagination.

Jan Hovers (Amsterdam, 1958) is a Dutch multidisciplinary artist and musician based in Gorssel. Runtime: 4:00

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Maker’s Mark, Ngozi Magena, Hunter Miles Davis, Directors

Maker's Mark is a spoken word short film that traces the journey from entanglement to emancipation. Through poetic narration and intimate visuals, it explores a relationship where love once felt divine—shaping identity, spirit, and purpose—before unraveling into pain, disillusionment, and release. This is a story about heartbreak, healing, and learning to become your own maker. Ngozi Magena is a New Orleans-based poet and emerging visual storyteller, energized by the transformative power of expression as a tool for affirmation, introspection, and revolution. Runtime: 5:33

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The Id Bomb, Finn Harvor, Director

This is a movie-poem based on a spoken word performance that recently premiered in the US. It’s about the phenomenon of “Red Hats”, and their seemingly unquenchable hate: hate for immigrants, hate for “wokeness”, hate for anyone different. Where did all this hate come from? The poem draws a connection between the psychologically unresolved humiliations of childhood and the red-hot emotions of the present.  

Award-winning artist, writer, musician, and filmmaker based in South Korea. Articles in many journals, including the Brooklyn Rail and Canadian Notes and Queries. Have presented at academic conferences in Oxford, Bath, Liverpool, Bologna, Berlin, Seoul, Osaka, and elsewhere. Runtime: 4:34

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Yes and No, Ron Campbell, Director

Ron Campbell performs his poem, "Yes and No." Originally part of his One Person Show, "How To Fail" performed in April 2025 at The Actors Gang in Los Angeles, California.
A poem about poetry, and opposites that need each other. Runtime: 1:59

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The Wall, Pamela Falkenber, Jack Cochran, Directors

Based on a poem by David Bowles, about the futility of small minds, exemplified by the patchwork wall being erected on the U.S. side of the Texas/Mexico border.

Pam is an independent filmmaker who received her PhD from the University of Iowa and taught at Northern Illinois University, St. Mary’s College, and the University of Notre Dame. She directed the largest student film society in the US while at the University of Iowa and ran film series for the Snite Museum of Art in South Bend, IN. 

Jack is an independent filmmaker who has produced, directed, or shot a variety of experimental and personal projects. As a DP, he has extensive experience shooting commercials, independent features, and documentaries. Runtime: 2:09

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All-American Ruins: Universal Atlas Cement Plant, Angel Gates Fonseca, Director

Follow multidisciplinary artist Blake Pfeil as he recounts the bittersweet end of a relationship while exploring the abandoned Universal Atlas Cement Plant that overlooks the banks of the Hudson River.

Growing up in New York City, Angel was immersed in the borough's diverse cultural tapestry, equipping him to collaborate seamlessly with individuals from many backgrounds. Runtime: 12:00

 

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Ode to My Wound, Margo Stutts Toombs, Director

This is a video poem that raises questions about a wound. Runtime: 1:30

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Diving into the Wreck, Michael Maurissens, Director

Female identity is not static but a fluid, continuously evolving experience, like a landscape shaped by time, memory, and environment. Just like the desert around her—dry, vast, exposed to wind and erosion-her presence becomes at once fleeting and enduring, constantly forming and transforming.
This landscape of becoming rejects limitations and resonates with a feminist impulse that dismantles rigid definitions while embracing multiplicity, ambiguity, and transformation. A black-and-white dance film unfolds as a sensual, cinematic ritual of femininity. In a poetic excavation of memory, resilience, and the body, the woman connects with the untamed force of nature.   Runtime: 7:40

 

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Men Scryfa, Brian John Selman, Director

A poem exploring the legend of a unique standing stone in Cornwall.

Brian John Selman is a poet, writer, painter, filmmaker, and wood carver who lives in Cornwall. The history of Cornwall and the coast provides him with endless inspiration for his creative projects. Runtime: 3:05

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Still, Vivien Tóth, Director

Still is a poetry film that captures an inner journey through obsession, loss, and liberation. At its heart lies the raw tension between female strength and vulnerability: a woman who cannot—and will not—detach herself from what has shattered her. Through surreal and symbolic imagery, the film immerses the viewer in her emotional intensity, unfolding like a dream on the edge of madness and release. Vivien Tóth was born in 1994 in Budapest. She began her career as a writer, first as a novelist and later as a poet. Runtime: 6:12

 

 

 

Miramis, Angie Siveria, Oskar Schuster

Probably many people had a cookie iron jar in their childhood that contained the most secret treasures: old family photos, figurines, stickers, video tapes, and secret memories. How many boxes does it take to keep all your memorabilia? Is it possible to save a loved one from the war in such a box and take them to a safe place? Angie Siveria's poem is a reflection on the ongoing war in Ukraine, her childhood in Donetsk, which is now temporarily occupied. 

Oskar Schuster is a German composer and artist living in Berlin. His songs without words evoke a strange, surreal fairytale world. A world full of blurry images of the past; of childhood memories and characters from children’s books; of clicking and ticking clocks and ever-looping music boxes, of far-away-lands, far-away-seas, far-away-skies, far-away-everythings. Runtime: 2:27

 

 

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On-Demand 

Virtual Screening Session 2 - LineUp

 

Crossing Paths, Rebecca Goldsmith, Director

On the border of England and Wales, two ancient pathways cross. Their stories over time are explored and reimagined in this place-based poetry film, drawing inspiration from hauntology and folk horror. All images, writing, music, and sound design have been created by a solo practitioner as a contemplative response to place.

Rebecca Goldsmith is an award-winning poetry filmmaker, composer, and producer based in the UK. She works across cinematic, interactive, and immersive spaces of engagement, with a focus on experiential and non-linear forms. Runtime: 4:37

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“reverence” M Freeman, Director

 A poetic kaleidoscopic meditation on the irrepressible awe of being, "reverence" is a selection from Cinema Divina, M's ongoing series of genre-fluid films (short, autobiographic, poetic, psalm-like, essayistic) created through contemplative practice.

Working at the intersections of reckoning and resiliency, queerness and film, and contemplative, creative and social art practices, M is author of The Illuminated Space: A Personal Theory and Contemplative Practice of Media Art (Winner of the 2020 Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal for Creativity & Innovation, The 3rd Thing, 2020); and creator of Cinema Divina—evocative short films made through and for contemplative practice. M’s films have been featured on PBS and in galleries, spirituality centers, theaters, and festivals worldwide. Runtime: 3:30

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We Hold Their Grief in Our Hands, Carlie Sherry, Director

A video work made in response to processing my father's suicide. I speak to my father one last time—laying bare the vulnerabilities of grief now that he is gone. This work examines societal norms around mourning, what it means to hold space for another’s sorrow, and how we honor those we’ve lost—not only through memory, but also through our instinct to protect who they were, not who they became. Runtime: 7:18 

 

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Mercy, Philip Szporer, Director

“The hands of the dancers are the hands of my mother and sister, the hands of our grandmother, the hands of their mothers.” These words of the celebrated American poet Cornelius Eady serve as an anchor for the short film "Mercy," which weaves poetry and imagery with gesture, movement, and voice into an intricate meditation on black womanhood.  The film starts in black, with only audio for about 4 seconds.

Philip Szporer has been immersed in the world of Canadian dance, spanning dance arts, performance, journalism, education, and film for over 40 years. Runtime: 15:37

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What Wine Owes to the Night, Mathieu Blanchart, Director

Night has fallen, but the vineyard does not sleep. In the silent darkness, the vines whisper, the leaves quiver, and the earth still breathes. What the Wine Owes the Night is a visual and sensory poem, an intimate dive into the nocturnal life of a vineyard. With little or no dialogue, the film captures breaths, fleeting lights, and unseen presences that watch over the land as humans withdraw.  Founder and creative lead of OH! Agency, he focuses on telling authentic stories for companies, institutions, and cultural projects, always seeking the right balance between emotion and clarity. Runtime: 2:24

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The Man in the Mangroves Counts to Sleep-Performance,

Donna Decker, James A. Moorer, Directors. (Long Version)

A live performance/recitation of the poem by Donna Decker in April 2022 at the Challenger Learning Center Planetarium in Tallahassee, Florida. The Man in the Mangroves Counts to Sleep recounts the inner monologue of a homeless mathematician
living in a Key West mangrove swamp. As he surveys his current circumstances, “The Man” reflects on his past, his struggles, and his yearning. Runtime: 12:10

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They’re All Bad Cops, Georgia May, Director

Georgia May is a UK-based filmmaker and journalist from the Southeast. Several of her poems and short stories have been published, and she’s been both a judge and selectee of film festivals around the globe. Mostly for her feature scripts, experimental short films, and documentaries.

 

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Angst, Coji Senanayake, Youth Director Submission

A teenager caught up in a dysfunctional family environment. Monologue. Runtime: 1:51

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Awhirling, J. Cem Kurtulus, Director

Written as part of the 17th Istanbul Biennial by the poet participant Cem Kurtulus and painter/designer J. F. Vishna, Awhirling is a poem about love, collective consciousness, and growth.

During high school in Istanbul, J. Cem directed Woody Allen's God, Chekhov's Short Skits, and Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape on stage; after losing his mother, he published Madde - Yasak Meyve with Efe Murad in 2005. I received my BA in English and German at Bates College. After moving to city life in New York, he became a video editor and made The Hungry Boy (Short Animation, w/Jake Nelson, 2012); published surun cem e (160. Kilometre, Poetry, 2012), two chapbooks (Sub Yayin, with Efe Murad, 2016) and other poems and writings (at various online and printed zines like Da Baddest); and edited various documentaries including The Horn (2018, Redbull TV), Santiago Calatrava (2017, Dir. Alexandra Liveris) and Davi’s Way (2016, Dir. Tom Donahue). Runtime: 3:13

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Excerpt from -unnamed-relation-a film chapbook (long version), Dana Teen Lomax, Director

This 11-poem chapbook presents 11 film-poems from -unnamed-relation-, an experimental poetry manuscript about relationships—with those we love, with our own understandings, with the earth, with death. Dana Teen Lomax works with poetry and film to explore deeply personal and collective issues. A poet, filmmaker, educator, and activist, Dana is the author of several poetry books and the director of both narrative and documentary short films. Runtime: 10:41

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Bird on a Wire, Greg Roensch, Director

A surreal rumination on memory, imagination, love, and the state of the world.

Greg Roensch writes flash fiction and poetry, makes poetry-films, and writes and records original songs. His poetry-films have screened at the Ó Bhéal Poetry-Film Competition, the Maldito Festival de Videopoesia, the Bloomsday Film Festival, and other festivals worldwide. He recently released “Howling at the Moons of Saturn,” a spoken-word album featuring original music. Runtime: 3:59

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On-Demand 

Virtual Screening Session 3 - LineUp

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