The 2021 Film and Video Poetry Symposium is proud to announce over 100 film and video projects that celebrate 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 oratorical, performing arts, epistolary cinema, video art, essay film, historical profiles, and choreopoetry.

We hope to once again bring together cinema enthusiasts, poets, filmmakers, video artists, and media artists to discover international work and ideas that represent all of these these dynamic fields. The Film and Video Poetry Symposium will screen virtually and IRL December 2021 in Los Angeles, Ca. Full program and locations will post shortly.

The Film and Video Poetry Symposium is honored to present the following works within the 2021 program!

Poetry Film/ Videopoetry

FOUR-LEAF CLOVER (poet and filmmaker. Hanna Ojala, Finland, 2020)
PANDORA (poet and filmmaker. Tova Beck-Friedman, US, 2021)
NO WORDS (poet. Ahmed Abdul Raqeeb Alkhulaidi, dir. Mariam Al-Dhubhani, Yemen, 2020)
LITERATURE (poet & filmmaker. Samer Nouh, France, 2021)
GRANDE LITURGIE SITUATIONNISTE (poet and media artist. David Snow, US, 2021)
DITCHES (poet and director. Michelle Elrick, US, 2020)
DAYDREAM IN TWO (visual artist. Divya Singh, India, 2021)
THE TELLS (poet and filmmaker. Scott Stark, US, 2002)
THE MISTAKE (poet and director. Pat Boran, Ireland, 2021)
SHINING SHEEP (poet. Ulrike Almut Sandig, dir. Sascha Conrad, Germany, 2020
DISTORTION (poet. Anqi Lei, dir. Mujin Zhang, US, 2021)
DARK MYRIAD 70 (poet and director. Eta Dahlia, Russian Federation, 2021)
IL LAVORO CIECO / THE BLIND WORKS (poet. Lello Voce, dir. Gianluca Abbate, Italy, 2020)
PROCESSES (poet. Sergej Timofejev, animator. Viktor Timofeev, Latvia, 2021)
SEPPUKU (poet and director. Kimberly Lovie, US, 2021)
CLYTEMNESTRA (poet. Alan Dunnett, dir. Mia Mackie, UK, 2021)
CAMP TEREZIN (poet and director. Alexis Krasilovsky, US, 1999)
LEARNING TO SING (poet and director. Carolina Meza Torres, Mexico, 2021)
GREEK VASE (poet and dir. Pat Boran, Ireland, 2021)
THE MOUTH IS STILL A WILD DOOR (poet. Anne Lesley Selcer, dir. Guta Galli, US, 2020)
THE PARKING LOT OF DREAMS (poet and filmmaker. Alexis Krasilovsky, US, 2021)
STITCH (poet and filmmaker. Caroline Rumley, Austria, 2021)
3 MINUTES AND 48 SECONDS on 2ND APRIL 2020 (poet and filmmaker. Takayuki Fukata, Japan, 2021)
SEQUENCE (poet & director. Tim Thomas, UK, 2021)
BUTTERFLIES IN THE CLOUD (media artist and researcher. Eryk Salvaggio, US, 2021)
CLADOGRAM (poet. Haley Larson, directors. Haley Larson and Timothy David Orme, US, 2019)
I DREAM A QUEER ALLEGORY (poets and filmmakers. Michael V. Smith, Finn Ballard, Jared Mitchell, and RM Vaughan, Germany, 2020)
WHAT NEWS, CENTURIONS? (poet and director. Colm Scully, Ireland, 2021)
GABY - THE MOVING PICTURE (poet and director. Piers Bedford, UK, 2021)
THE FACTS (poet and director. Chris Bernstorf, US, 2019)

Oratorical

MY LAST DUCHESS (set to the poetry of Robert Browning, performer. Mark Wartenberg, dir. Harry Baker, UK, 2020)
WABI-SABI (poet. Kathy Fisher, dir. Louise Abbott, Canada, 2021)
DULCE et DECOUM EST (set to the poetry of Wilfred Edward Salter Owen MC, dir. Walter Haussner, spoken by Steven Earl Oliver, US, 2020)
9 BRIEF FILMS FROM SUBURBAN ZEN (poet, reading, and directed by Justin Meckes, US, 2021)
GOOD MORNING (poet and director. Cassaundra Sampson, US, 2020)
THE PARTISAN (set to the poetry of Emmanuel d’Astier de La Vigerie, dir. Walter Haussner, spoken by Steven Earl Oliver, US, 2020)
ODE TO THE CLIMATE (poetry. Gaia Cipriano, directors. Vittorio Caratozzolo and his 1st Grade Class: 3-A)
SINGULARITY (public address by poet Marie Howe, animator. Mariana Lopez, dirs. Elizabeth Myer and Matthew Boulton, US, 2020)
THE CIRCLE (writers. Steve Romero, Thaisan Ngoun, Deron Perrin, Justin Hong, Jadon Godlock, Daniel Wayne Rose, Donnell Campbell, Thomas Bell, Mario Franco, Jr, directors. Marlene D McCurtis & Alexa Kershner, US, 2021)
BLIND BOONE’S BLESSINGS (poet. Tyehimba Jess, dir. Matthew Thompson, US, 2020)
BRIGHTENING (poet. Doireann Ní Ghríofa, dir. Matthew Thompson, US, 2020)
IF 2017 WAS A POEM TITLE (poet. Mahogany L. Browne, dir. Matthew Thompson, US, 2020)
THIS IS NOT A CONFESSIONAL POEM (poem. Paula Meehan, performer. Clare Dunne, dir. Matthew Thompson, US, 2021)
THE REPUBLIC OF MOTHERHOOD (poet. Liz Berry, dir. Matthew Thompson, US, 2020)
KUMUKANDA (poem. Kayo Chingonyi, performer. Paapa Essiedu, dir. Matthew Thompson, US, 2020)
PUERTOPIA (poet. Denice Frohman, dir. Matthew Thompson, US, 2020)

Animation

TETHERED (poet. James Morehead, animator. Gaia Alari, US, 2021)
THE COMBINE (poet. Bill Ratner, animator. Micah Chambers-Goldberg, US, 2021)
FOR WHILE (poet and animator. Jess Irish, US, 2019)
OTONASHI (animation. Martin Gerigk, colloge art. Nikola Gocić, Germany, 2021)
OSCAR SAID A DIRTY WORD (poet and animator. Myron Pulier, US, 2015)
I AM SOIL BREAKING OFF (poet. Paloma Sierra, animation. Andrew Edwards, US, 2021)
BROOKLYN STRONG (poet. Latasha Drax, animation. Arlys Lopez, US, 2021)
A HAND TO HOLD (based on a poem by Stacey Davis, dirs. Ali Clark and Stacey Davis, US, 2021)
THE 90s (poet. Kathleen Flenniken, animation. Elisabeth Flenniken, US, 2020)
I AM INNOCENT (animated by Malak Quota, Saudi Arabia, 2021)
THE ANIMAL (poem by Erin Carlyle, animated by Nora 6592, US, 2020)
YESTERDAY’S WARDROBE (poet and director. Colm Scully, Ireland, 2021)
STOLEN (poet and animator. Christina Giordano, US, 2021)
WHISPER, RUSTLE (animation. Maureen Zent, US, 2021)
HORSE POWER (dir. Christine Veras, animators. Elham Doust-Haghighi, Gina Rattanakone, Emily Banditrat, Sara McClanaham, Austin Sewell, Naznin Sultana, Mayson Bray, Zack Nguyen, Martin Cho, Jacob Reeder, Philip Martin, Kirstin Stevens Schmidt)

Essay Film

SHADOWS IN A LANDSCAPE (written and directed by Edwin Miles, UK, 2020)
DRIVING WITH THE TOP DOWN (written and directed by Edward Gunawan, US, 2021)
SECRET ARCHIVES: RED CARPET HOUSE (written and directed by Bei Yu, China, 2021)
PROMISES (written and directed by Ro Caminal, Spain, 2021)
THE FIRST LINE OF CHINA (written and directed by Hanwen Zhang, China, 2019)
AN ACT OF TRUST (written and directed by Matilde Stole, Netherlands, 2021)
BORAMETZ (written and directed by Yannick Mosimann, Switzerland, 2020)

Experimental Film

PARYS SUITE (writer. Carina van der Walt, director. Diek Grobler, South Africa, 2018)
A NINE-PART SWADESH POEM (conceptual artist. Ted Ollier, US, 2021)
TELEPHLÂNEUR (written and directed by Matthew LaPaglia, US, 2019)
PÀI-LA̍K Ē-POO (poet and filmmaker. Erica Sheu, Taiwan, 2020)
EXERCISE LIVING: THE BEAUTIFUL SCENERY (media artist. Kuang-Yu Tsui, Taiwan, 2020)
SOLEIL, TOUT CE QUE TU VOUDRAS (dir. Marie Tralci, France, 2021)
THE WATER’S TALE ( filmmaker. Virginia Eleuteri Serpieri, Germany, 2021)
“EXCERPT” (written and directed by Joachim Glage, US, 2021)
QUARANTINE (writer and director. Erica Schreiner, US, 2020)
WINDOW SHOPPING (IN THE FALL OF BABYLON) (filmmaker. M. Woods, UK, 2017)
¡PÍFIES! (filmmaker. Ignacio Tamarit, Argentine, 2017)
STARK ELECTRIC JESUS (based on the poetry of Malay Roy Choudhury, directed by Hyash Tanmoy and Mrigankasekhar Ganguly, India, 2014)
THE WIND FORM TAIPEI (Media Artist. Kuang-Yu Tsui, Taiwan, 2020)

Documentary

LANDAYS (director. Inna Dmitrieva, US, 2021)
WHEN I WAS A TREE (poet. Dorothy Randall Gray, director. Djenba Skye Ward, US, 2021)
THE COMPLETE WORKS (d. Justin Stephenson, p bpNichol, Canada, 2015)
TSVETAEVA.OPEN (directed by Alla Damsker, producer. Anotoly Bely & Alla Damsker, Russian Federation, 2021)
RIDING THE HIGHLINE (poets and filmmakers. Kai Carlson-Wee & Anders Carlson-Wee, US, 2013)
BABES IN THE WOODS (filmmaker. Leanna Kaiser, US, 2019)
LE CHANT DES CHEVAUX (written by Julien Henry and director François Kah, Belgium, 2021)

Choreopoem

MOVING BARCELONA (director and poet. Jevan Chowdhury, choreographer. Laura Obiols, UK, 2021)
THAT IF WE GO INTO THE DESERT (poet and director. Katia Sophia Ditzler, Germany, 2020)
NOTHING COMES CLOSE (poet. Hannah Karpinski, dir. Tamar Tabori, choreographer. Alan McTavish, Canada, 2020)
BEYOND THE TREES (poet and director. Fiona Leonard, choreographer. Teya Quarmyne, Germany, 2021)
DIGNITY (directed, written and choreographed by Alayna Jennings, US, 2020)
THE PANDEMIC DANCE: NO. 2: ZOOMING (director and choreographer. Richard Daniels, US, 2021)

Performance Art

TRIBUTE (poetry, performance and directed by Katia Sophia Ditzler, Germany, 2020)
INDIANA IS A BEAUTIFUL PLACE TO CRY INTO (set to the poetry of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Tony Brewer, dir. Tony Brewer, US, 2021)
MICHELANGELO (poetry written and performed by Tom Dewey, director. Sven Stears, UK, 2021)
MOON SHADOW (poet. Jo Devadason, directed and choreographed by Kavitha Krishnan, Singapore, 2021)

Video/ Media Installation

A FLYING CENTRE OF GRAVITY (media artist. Janice Howard, UK, 2019)
DESDE EL ENCIERRO ABISMAL, OTRA VENGANZA ES POSIBLE (poet and media artist. Diego Argote, Chile, 2021)
COVID 19 PART 1 (media artists Navid Memar and Mahdi Hosseinzadeh, Islamic Republic of Iran, 2020)
PARALELO (poet. Alina Camps de Echeverri, media artist. Santiago Echeverry, US, 2020)
ACCELERATED INTIMACY (poet and director. Sarah Chor Jing, Singapore, 2018)
COS ENDINS (directed by. Gianluca Abbate & Eduard Escoffet, Italy, 2019)
THE SHOCK OF GARY FISHER (poet. Juba Kalamka, director. John Sanborn, US, 2020)

Epistolary Cinema

DEAR FUTURE ME (writer and filmmaker. Kkoki, Germany, 2021)
I DON’T WANT TO MAKE ART ABOUT YOU ANYMORE (filmmaker. Dexter Marsh-Taylor, US, 2020)

FVPSociety Award recipients from the 2021 Small Media File Festival

DIASPORA (experimental filmmaker. Noor Abouchehade, Canada, 2021)
MY GRANDMOTHER AND THE EATING DISORDER (an essay film written and directed by Marilia Kaiser, Greece, 2021)