The 2020 Film and Video Poetry Symposium Official Selections are here. We are proud to announce over 100 films and projects celebrating artistic excellence through the union of poetry, film, video, animation, digital art, and new media. You will also find an expanded focus within the fields of essay film, historical profiles, choreopoetry, and documentary. We hope to once again bring together cinema enthusiasts, poets, filmmakers, video artists, and media artists to discover international work and ideas that represents all of these these dynamic fields.

The Film and Video Poetry Symposium will run November - December 2020 in Los Angeles, Ca.

The Film and Video Poetry Symposium is honored to present the following poetry films, animations, videopoems, experimental films, installations, documentaries, video art within our 2020 program:

Poetry Film & Videopoetry

·       ENTRE LES IMAGES (poet & director. Vito A. Rowlands, Belgium, 2020)
·       ASSASSIN (poet. Alan Dunnett, director. Jenny Xueer Wan, U.K., 2019)
·       TENDER THING (writer & director. Samer Nouh, Lebanon, 2019)
·       MEXICANS LOST IN MEXICO (poet. Nico Amador, director. Irit Reinheimer, U.S., 2020)
·       FROM A KNIFE WOUND (poet. Chaucer Cameron, director. Lucia Sellars, U.K., 2019)
·       THE BEZIER CURVE (poet & computer graphics. Jim Hall, U.S., 2019)
·       THE SIREN’S SONG (poet & director. Thomas Longstaff, U.K., 2019)
·       BACKWARDS GOD (poet & director. Natalie Cook, U.S., 2019)
·       HAIKU (poet & director. Martin Gerigk, Germany, 2020)
·       PORCELAIN (media artist. Barry Olusegun-Noble Despenza, U.S., 2020)
·       GIRL IS PRESENCE (poetry & direction by Lynne Sachs & Anne Lesley Selcer, U.S., 2020)
·       BIG DATA (writer & director. Diego Bonilla & Rodolfo Mata, Mexico, 2019)
·       LA RIVE VIRALE (writer & director. Miljana Nikovic, Germany, 2020)
·       THE MIAMI DENTIST (writer & director. David Baeumler, U.S., 2011)
·       SNOW ON THA BLUFF (director. Eryc Rodriguez, set to the poetry of Jermaine Lamarr Cole, U.S., 2020)
·       FARMLY (poet. Buddy Wakefield, director. Jamie DeWolf, U.S., 2019)
·       THE PROPHETESS (poet & director. Marco Joubert, a reinterpretation of Francis Ponge's “La loi et les prophètes", Canada, 2020)
·       DARK MYRIAD 7 (poet & direction. Eta Dahlia, U.K., 2020)
·       DEAD METAPHOR (writer & moving image artist. Richard Ashrowan, U.K., 2019)
·       KEEP YOUR FLOWERS (poet. Ivory Adams, director. Sekou Brown, U.S., 2020)
·       BOYSHAPEDSPACE (poet & director. Adrian B. Earle, U.K., 2019)
·       OH MY WATER (poet & director. Myriam Rey, U.K., 2020)
·       BOILED SKELETONS (writer & director. Sam Gouldthorpe, poet. Leah Fuentes, U.S., 2019)
·       THESE HOMES: GHAZALS AT THE ENDS OF AMERICA (p. Minnie Zhang, Victor Xia, Alfred Yu, Stella Li, Celine Choi, dir. Victor Xia, U.S., 2020)
·       THE 37% (poet & director. Jeremy Player, U.K., 2020)
·       RODEO DAYS (poet & director. Marie Craven, Australia, 2019)
·       AGAMEMNON’S DAUGHTER (dir. Elise Kermani, set to excerpts from the play “Iphigenia at Aulis” by Euripides, U.S., 2018)
·       AXIOM (visual artist. Sally Grizzell Larson, set to the poetry of Amedee Ozenfant, U.S., 2010)
·       SNOWFALL (directors. Yasir Masood & Peter McCain, poetry. Tabinda Javed & Yasir Masood, U.S., 2020)
·       MA’S BUTTON BOX (poet. Anshu Malviya, director. Anubhav Singh, India, 2020)
·       THE RIDE (poet. Revital Bilu, director. Dana Goldberg, Israel, 2019)
·       SINKHOLE (poet & director. Dave Richardson, U.S., 2020)
·       LAIRS (poet & director. Emma Penaz Eisner, U.S., 2020)
·       TOAD, LEAF, GRASS, ROCK (director. Federica Foglia, set to the poetry of Eugenio Montale, Canada, 2020)
·       THE 3 ME’S (poet. Felicia Olusanya, director. Simon Daniels, Ireland, 2019)
·       WHAT MEMPHIS NEEDS (poet & director. Alexis Krasilovsky, U.S., 1991)
·       I BELIEVE IN THE POWER OF THE WORD (poet & director. David Arthur-Simons, Principality of Dasmania, 2016)
·       DISPLACED (writer & director. Alex Mendez Giner, Spain, 2019)
·       A WALK ALONG THE STARS (writer & animator. Lani McHenry, U.S., 2019)
·       EKO ILE (poet. Ntongha Ekot, director. Sheldon Chua, Nigeria, 2020)
·       LIMBUS (poet & director. Katerina Vlahbey, Greece, 2019)
·       60 FLOWERS, 70 CAPSULES, 80 DIGITS (writer & media artist. Arturo Cubacub, U.S., 1982)
·       THE DEALER (poet. Chloe Jacquet, director. Stephanie Cobban, U.K., 2020)
·       SOMETHING FOR YOURSELF (writer & filmmaker. Alexandria L. Vicari, U.S., 2020)
·       PRINCE (poet. Lynn Breedlove, video artist. John Sanborn, U.S., 2020)
·       DIALOGUE WITH GEORGIA O’KEEFFE I: CHIMNEY ROCK (poet & director. Patricia L. Meek, U.S., 2018)
·       SEMI-AUTOMATIC PANTOUM (poet. Chris Green, director. Matt Mullins, U.S., 2019)
·       MOURNING FOOD (poet. Charles Edward Payne, directors. Zachary Shea & Alys Brooks, U.S., 2019)
·       UNVOICED (by poet & graphic artist. Ian Gibbins, Australia, 2019)
·       SOLSTICE SOL INVICTUS (poets. Lucy English & Sarah Tremlett, director. Sarah Tremlett, U.K., 2018)
·       UNBORN RIVERS OF SKY (poet. Daniel DeVaughn, filmmaker. Brian Ratigan, U.S., 2020)

Experimental Film

·       MEDUSA AND THE ABYSS (director. Felicity Palma, Italy, 2019)
·       YOUTH GARDEN (dir. Hélène Matte, Canada, 2019)
·       DRIFTING CITIES (writer & director. Michal Higgins, Ireland, 2017)
·       LOST IN HER HAIR: MONDAY (dir. Pegah Pasalar, Islamic Republic of Iran, 2019)
·       THE LIFE AND DEATH OF A MOSQUITO (director. Walter Smits, U.S., 2020)
·       VOICE-DESTROY (writer & director. Nick Twardus, U.S, 2018)
·       VAGUELY SURROUNDING PATHS II (visual artist. Fernando Brito, Portugal, 2019)
·       ONE PIECE OF SOAP (writer & director. Adonia Bouchehri, Germany, 2019)
·       BERTHA’S CHILDREN (filmmakers. Roberta Friedman & Grahame Weinbren, U.S., 1976)
·       STONES FOR THUNDER (directors. Kera Makenzie & Andrew Mausert-Mooney, U.S., 2018)
·       THE LAST WERE BURIED HERE (dir. Annette Philo, U.K., 2020)
·       THE LINEN CLOSET (writers. Ian W. Hill & David Finkelstein, direction & animation. David Finkelstein, U.S., 2016)
·       SELF-CREATION (director. Shelby Dillon, U.S., 2020)
·       DRIFT (writer, director & animator. Elizabeth Lowe, Czech Republic & U.S., 2020)
·       SOMETIMES I WISH MY LIFE WAS A MOVIE (poet & media artist. Zach McLane, U.S., 2017)
·       CEASESUSURRATING (writer & director. Ye Mimi, Taiwan, 2018)
·       GETTING CLOSER TO YOU (director. Alejandro T. Acierto, U.S., 2020)
·       MY MOTHER IS JUST ONE (writer & director. Teona Galgoțiu, Romania, 2018)
·       EMOTIONS IN METAL (writer & director. Tommy Becker, U.S., 2019)
·       GÜNLER YÜRÜDÜĞÜNDE (artist. Hande Sever, Turkey, 2018)
·       UNSOUND (filmmaker. Vivian Ostrovsky, U.S., 2019)
·       GEOLOGICS (media artist. Vania Xiang, U.S., 2019)
·       THE STORY OF EMOTICON (animator. Jiayang Huang, U.S., 2020)

Animation

·       DER UND DIE (poet & animation. Peter Böving, Germany, 2019)
·       PLASTICNIC (poet and director. Fiona T. Lam, animator. Tisha Deb Pillai, Canada, 2018)
·       RESPEK (poet. Kamari Bright, animator. Christina Perry, U.S., 2018)
·       BLINK (poet. Jeff Thomson, animation. Amy Neswald, U.S., 2019)
·       THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BUZZ ALDRIN (animator. Avishkar Chhetri, poet. Bill Neumire, U.S., 2020)
·       ENCOUNTERS (animator. Mona Keil, Germany, 2020)
·       IM WALDE (poet. Dieter Liewerscheidt, directors. Moritz Liewerscheidt, Jenny Dam, Germany, 2019)
·       FACE TO FACE (writer & animation. David Asher Brook, Australia, 2020)
·       MORTE ET DABO (animator. Rubén Möller, Canada, 2019)
·       FIRST (animation. Nikolaus Jantsch, poet. Sophie Reyer, Austria, 2019)
·       FROM THERE AND NOWHERE CHRONICLES (animator. Jérémy Griffaud, France, 2018)
·       KALI EXORCISM (poet. Helen Moore, animator. Howard Vause, U.K., 2015)

Choreopoetry

·       HAWAR (dir. Deny Tri Ardianto, poet. Rahmanu Widayat, choreographer. Mekratingrum Hapsari, Indonesia, 2020)
·       THIS IS AFRICA (poet. Ronan Cheneau, choreographer. Aïpeur Foundou, director. Matthieu Maunier-Rossi, Congo, 2020)
·       THE SCULPTURE OF PLACE AND TIME (khmer classical dancer. Prumsodun Ok, director. Tatsuhito Utagawa, Japan & Cambodia, 2020)
·       CONQUEST AND PRISON (poets & choreographers. Lorin Sookool, Oscar Buthelez & Julia Wilson, director. Mark Freeman, South Africa, 2015)

Documentary, Educational, and Historical Profiles

·       ENRIQUE VALDES, POESIA Y DESTIERRO (director. Alvaro Pereira Molina, Chile, 2019)
·       THE LAMENT FOR ART O’LEARY (director. Marcella O'Connor, Ireland, 2019)
·       BIRTH OF A POET (writers & directors. James Franco, Gómez Millán, and Zachary Kerschberg, U.S., 2019)
·       WITH AIR AND SALT, UNBREAKABLE HEALTH (director. Maia Iotzova, Switzerland, 2018)
·       PRÍAPO (director. Tomás Pérez Torrella, Spain, 2020)
·       THE REPUBLICS (poet. Stephen Watts, director. Huw Wahl, U.K., 2020)
·       EDUARDO GALEANO VAGAMUNDO (director. Felipe Nepomuceno, Brazil, 2018)
·       THE LEGACY OF ROETHKE (director. Jeff Vande Zande, U.S., 2019)
·       A LITTLE OFF THE TOP (written & directed by Philip Brubaker, U.S., 2019)

· HIATUS (filmmaker. Vivian Ostrovsky, set to the words of Clarice Lispector, and the poetry of Willem Boshoff, Seiichi Niikuni, Josef Hiršal,
Bohumila Grögerová, and beloved Bolivian concrete poet Eugen Gromringer, U.S., 2019)

·       CONTIGO A SOLAS (dir. Adrien Milliot & Maxime Dejob, set to the poetry of Federico García Lorca, Antonio Machada, Lousi Aragon, Lucía
Sánche Saornil, Spain, 2019)

Essay Film

·       BRINKS (writer. Daniel Wolff, director. Marla Renzi, U.S., 2020)
·       SI JE TE VOLE LA MER (writers. Cedric Chaabi & Ro Caminal, director. Ro Caminal, Algeria, 2018)
·       HOMAGE TO SUMMER (writer & director. Katerina Markoulaki, Greece, 2019)
·       HOMECOMING (writer & director. Akio Yuguchi, animator. Miki Tanaka, Estonia, 2015)
·       REBELLION (writer & director. Franz Quiñonez, Peru, 2020)
·       PLEASE COME AGAIN (writer & director. Alisa Yang, Japan, 2016)
·       THANK JOHNSON I’M WOKE (writer & director. Charles de Agustin, U.S., 2019)
·       MERCY (writer & director. Marilyn Freeman, U.S., 2016)
·       VITO:BILL 4:3 (writer & director. Courtin Byrd, U.S., 2019)
·       TIDES (writer & director. Andre Silva, U.S., 2020)

Digital, Media Installation, Ensemble, Performance and Video Art

· PROFILE PICTURE (media artist. Matt Whitman, U.S., 2019)
·       STAY WITH ME! (media artist. Lejin Fan, U.S., 2019)
·       D.R.E.A.M. (media artist. Billy Bjork, U.S., 2019)
·       EVERTED SANCTUARIES VI (digital artist. Ryan Lewis, U.S., 2020)
·       LORELEI (poet & digital artist. Mark Niehus, Australia, 2020)
·       OPHELIA (video artist. Meike Redeker, Germany, 2020)
·       COMPANION (video artist. Jack Williams, Poland, 2020)
·       A MOMENT IN TIME (poet. Kevin McLean, director. Perry Jonsson, U.K., 2020)
·       HUES AND HIDDEN KINGS (poet & director. Sydney Morgan, U.S., 2017)
·       ARE YOU LISTENING TO ME ? (media artist. Caroline Yoo, U.S., 2017)
·       DÉPLOIEMENTS (media artist. Stéphanie Lagarde, Netherlands, 2018)
· THE STRONGER EXPERIMENT (media artist. Adriana Páramo, Spain, 2020)
·       HELL YELLOW (media artist. Dean Terry, performance artists. Hannah Weir & Therefore, U.S., 2020)
·       BIRTHDAY (digital artist. Michael Lester, U.S., 2016)
·       ALPHABET ( media artist. Lies Neve, Netherlands, 2019)
·       TERRITORIAL POETICS (performing artist. Bill Psarras, Greece, 2019)

FVPS will announce the 2020 program, venue, and schedule on October 12, 2020.

The Film and Video Poetry Symposium 2020 program advisors are FVPSociety managing director Jesse Russell Brooks, City of Inglewood, California Public Arts Consultant and Commissioner Helen Lessick, Associate Lecturer of Video Art Post Production at Syracuse University
Alexander Cole, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art Executive Director Rex Bruce, media consultant and psychologist Dorothy Adams Beatty,
and associate professor of film studies at Carleton University, Ottawa, critic, author, and curator of artists' independent media Laura U. Marks.

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