{"id":13480,"date":"2019-09-07T21:05:51","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T21:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/?page_id=13480"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:45:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T15:45:55","slug":"poetry-film-shortlist-2019","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/competition-poetry-film\/poetry-film-shortlist-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry-Film Shortlist 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"silver\"><a href=\"http:\/\/indiecork.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"141\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/poetryfilm\/PoetryFilm2019.jpg\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\">\u00d3 Bh\u00e9al&#8217;s <b>7th<\/b> International <b>Poetry-Film competition<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">at <strong>Indie<\/strong><\/font><font size=\"1\" color=\"red\"><b>Cork<\/b><\/font> <strong><font size=\"1\" color=\"black\"><a href=\"http:\/\/indiecork.com\/\">Festival of Independent Film &amp; Music<\/a><\/font><\/strong><font size=\"1\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Sunday 13th October 2019<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>4pm<\/b> and <b>5.30pm<\/b><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<font size=\"1\">@ Blacknight Festival Centre, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dalicork\/\"><strong>Dali<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">The shortlist of 31 films featured below will be screened in two parts, at the Blacknight Festival Centre, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dalicork\/\"><strong>Dali<\/strong><\/a>, Carey&#8217;s Lane, Cork city.<\/p>\n<p>The films were chosen from 198 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/competition-poetry-film\/\"><strong>submissions<\/strong><\/a> from 118 filmmakers in 33 countries, all completed within two years of the submission opening date. The shortlist represents eleven countries: Australia, Canada, Finland, Greece, Ireland, Isle of Man, Jordan\/Palestine, Spain, the UK &amp; the USA.<\/p>\n<p>Our 2019 judges, poet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stanleynotte.com\/\"><b>Stanley Notte<\/b><\/a> and poet-filmmaker <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user29903251\"><b>Colm Scully<\/b><\/a>, selected one winner to receive the <strong>Indie<\/strong><\/font><font size=\"1\" color=\"red\"><b>Cork<\/b><\/font> <font size=\"1\">award for best poetry-film.<\/p>\n<p><center>Our congratulations to winner <strong>Fiona Aryan<\/strong> from Ireland for her poetry-film, <b><font color=\"green\">Virginia gave me Roses<\/font><\/b>.<\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/indiecork.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IndieBanner2019.jpg\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<center><strong><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><a href=\"http:\/\/indiecork.com\/buy-tickets\/\">Tickets<\/a><\/font><\/strong> to each screening are \u20ac<strong>6.00<\/strong><\/center><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<\/font><font size=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/poetryfilm\/PFlaurel2019smWide.jpg\" width=\"490\" height=\"100\" border=\"0\"\/><\/font><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<table padding=\"0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"80\" border=\"0\" bgcolor=\"#E9EDE8\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#E9EDE8\">\n<center><font size=\"2\"><strong>Competition Shortlist &#8211; Screening A<\/strong> <\/font><font size=\"1\">(53:12)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Sunday<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>13th October<\/strong><\/font> @ <font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>4.00pm<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Dali<\/strong>, Carey&#8217;s Lane, Cork<\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/02 - for those who don't know chocolate2.jpg\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>for those who don&#8217;t know chocolate<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(3:37)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>for those who don&#8217;t know chocolate<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\">by Amirah Al Wassif<\/font><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; The Poverty and refugee crisis is a world wide calamity. It can only be remedied by a world wide effort.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>Paul Broderick<\/strong> (USA)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Paul Broderick has been making poetry films and short films for five years. With a performing Arts background and a penchant for the Noir, Paul brings a unique interpretation to his films. Paul is an award-winning filmmaker. His films have been screened in numerous festivals around the world. Through his collaborative and often unexpected vision Paul describes his maxim; &#8220;The medium of film has no boundaries&#8230;.There is no right or wrong, just expression&#8221;.<\/font><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/317268750\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/12 - The Stranger.jpg\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>The Stranger<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(7:30)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>The Stranger<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\">by Jessamine O Connor<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; \u2018The Stranger\u2019 is a shadow-puppet poem-film about being an immigrant, in Ireland and abroad. Made in collaboration with Carmel Balfe*, of Little Gem Puppets, and with original acoustic music by Helen B Grehan, the film is narrated by Aoife ni Mhurchadha. It is brisk, bold and beautiful. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>Jessamine O Connor<\/strong> (Ireland)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Jessamine O Connor lives on the Sligo Roscommon border and has published five poetry chapbooks, with a collection coming out with Salmon Poetry in 2020. She has won the Poetry Ireland Butlers Caf\u00e9 Competition 2017; the iYeats 2011; the Francis Ledwidge award 2011; and has been shortlisted for more, including the Hennessy Literary Award; Over the Edge New Writer of the Year; Cuirt New Writing Award; Red Line Book Festival; Dead Good Poetry; and the 2018 Poetry Ireland Love Your Bike competitions. This is her first film.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\">For more about Jessamine visit <a href=\"http:\/\/jessamineoconnor.com\">www.jessamineoconnor.com<\/a><\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><i>In collaboration with<\/i> <b>Carmel Balfe<\/b>: Carmel Balfe lives in Mayo where she is a professional puppeteer with Little Gem Puppets, and performs in both English and Irish. She was winner of the Best Children&#8217;s Film at the New York international film festival 2003. She designed and created all the shadow-puppets for this film.<\/font><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vknD4ug_RZU\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"399\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/32 - The Angry Sleeper.jpg\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>The Angry Sleeper       <\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(2:18)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>The Angry Sleeper <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\">by Rosemary Norman <\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; \u201cThe angry sleeper stalks his dreams\/hard from night to night\u201d. Dirk Bouts&#8217; 1470 painting of demons carrying sinners off to Hell is the starting point for this not-quite-serious animated nightmare. Pachelbel&#8217;s famous canon played on a musical box is the accompaniment.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>Stuart Pound <\/strong>(UK)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Stuart Pound lives in London and has worked in film, digital video, sound and the visual arts since the early 1970\u2019s. Since 1995 he has collaborated with the poet Rosemary Norman. Video work has been screened regularly in London and at international festivals. Screenings include: BFI London Film Festival EXPERIMENTA 2017, Holland Animation Film Festival (Utrecht) 2017. Ottawa International Animation Festival 2017, Festival international du film d&#8217;animation, Annecy, 2017.<\/font><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/342690774\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/43 - Plasticnic.jpg\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>Plasticnic<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(1:09)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>Plasticnic<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\">by Fiona Tinwei Lam  <\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; \u201cPlasticnic\u201d is an animated short that wryly depicts the extent and impact of the accumulation of plastic in the environment as people continue to purchase, use and discard single-use plastics. We seek out and enjoy nature while simultaneously (and obliviously) destroying it.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Directors: <strong>Fiona Tinwei Lam<\/strong> and <b>Tisha Deb Pillai<\/b> (Canada)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Fiona Tinwei Lam was born in Scotland, and has lived in Vancouver, Canada since the age of four. She has authored two poetry books and the children\u2019s book. Her poetry and prose appear in over 30 anthologies, including <i>The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2010<\/i>. She has co-edited two anthologies of nonfiction and edited <i>The Bright Well: Contemporary Canadian Poetry about Facing Cancer<\/i>.  Her video poems have been screened locally and internationally, including at the Zebra festival in 2014. She currently teaches creative writing at Simon Fraser University Continuing Studies in Vancouver, BC, Canada. For more about Fiona, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/ www.fionalam.net\"> www.fionalam.net<\/a><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Tisha Deb Pillai was in born in India and currently resides in Vancouver BC, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Media Arts in Animation from Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Her animation film If You Fall has screened at various film festivals including Cinanima, Ottawa International Animation Festival, TIFF Canada&#8217;s Top Ten, NY International Children&#8217;s Film Festival, Northwest Animation Festival, Animation Nights New York, and Vancouver International Women in Film Festival. If You Fall has also been added to the permanent collection at the Education Department Resources at the Museum of Modern Art. As an animator living between Canada and India, her work has been inspired from two vastly distinct worlds of colours, cultures and ideas. For more visit <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/tishadebpillai\">vimeo.com\/tishadebpillai<\/a>.<\/font><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/387883182\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/85 - Jephthah's Daughter.jpg\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>Jephthah\u2019s Daughter<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(4:38)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>Jephthah\u2019s Daughter<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\">by Tova Beck-Friedman<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; Jephthah was a ruler in the ancient kingdom of Israel who went to war with his neighboring enemy. He vowed that on his triumphal return, the first one to greet him would be sacrificed to his God. It was unfortunate that the first one to greet him was his only daughter. Not only was she sacrificed, we never learn her name &#8211; she is only known as Jephthah\u2019s Daughter.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>Tova Beck-Friedman<\/strong> (USA)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">An artist, filmmaker, curator and a writer: Tova Beck-Friedman\u2019s work has been shown in festivals, museums, galleries and on television including: The International Artists\u2019 Museum, at the 50th Venice Biennale; The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC; FIVAC Camag\u00fcey, Cuba; the 7th International Video Poetry Festival \/ Athens, Greece and The Jerusalem Cinematheque. <\/font><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/264172270\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/91 - Rodeo Days.jpg\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>Rodeo Days<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(3:40)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>Rodeo Days<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\">by Marie Craven <\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; \u201bRodeo  Days\u2019 is a personal film about my Australian ancestry and identity, and the longing to understand the meaning of home. It incorporates archival footage of mid-20th century rural life, given vibrant expression in a hybrid of spoken word, experimental film and music video.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>Marie Craven <\/strong> (Australia)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Marie Craven is a film-maker in Queensland, Australia, who has been making shorts for 35 years. Her work has exhibited extensively at international festivals and events, and gathered several awards. She has released over 60 video poems in the past five years, often made in net-collaboration with poets and other artists around the world. Over the decades, she has freelanced as a teacher of screen-writing at universities, technical colleges and community centres, a reviewer of films and books, an arts administrator, and a curator of film exhibitions, most notably the Australian National Focus at the 1994 Festival de Cine Experimental de Madrid. A major project in 2019-2020 is curating and managing a touring program of international video poems, titled \u201bPoetry + Video\u2019. Her first experience of film-making was in the mid-1980s, in the underground film community in Melbourne.<\/font><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/342356713\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/97 - One Step Away.jpg\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>One Step Away <\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(2:42)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>One Step Away<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\">by Caroline Rumley <\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; On the importance of listening to dreams, and of words of encouragement<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>Caroline Rumley<\/strong> (USA)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Caroline Rumley is a filmmaker and visual artist working with video, pictures, found footage, spoken word, text, and sound. She is interested in the visual narrative in its many forms, particularly in what Malcolm Gladwell calls a \u201cthin-sliced instance,\u201d that brief flash that tells you all you need to know. Her experimental, documentary, and poetry films have screened in the US and Europe. A video-based body of her work is included on Charlotte Cotton\u2019s \u201cBest of 2017\u201d list in the British Journal of Photography. She works in Atlanta, where she lives with her family.<\/font><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/252392482\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/122 - Postcards from a window.jpg\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>Postcards from a window <\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(6:34)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>Postcards from a window<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\">by Lucia Sellars<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; A poem that reflects on windows.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>Lucia Sellars<\/strong> (UK)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Lucia Sellars is a poet, environmental scientist, and a quiet observer. She believes that in order to create anything and through any medium, you must have a revelation through an applied poetic state of being; then, creativity crafts itself out. Her film director statement is: The motion of poetry is like juggling. You pick a set of feelings and images, then rise them into the air, into the randomness of infinity. Then grab two realities and one ethereal substance.<\/font><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iYHT8pwXbd0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"399\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/136 - In West Virginia.jpg\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>In West Virginia <\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(3:27)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>In West Virginia <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\">by Dave Bonta<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; Dave Bonta&#8217;s Haibun poem about an unexpected car breakdown in a small town, &#8220;In West Virginia,&#8221; the second poem in his recent book, <i>Failed State<\/i>, is the inspiration for this film poem, which finds arresting visual and aural correspondences among American landscapes taken over by strip malls, strip mines, and strips of highways.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Directors: <strong>Pamela Falkenberg<\/strong> and <strong>Jack Cochran<\/strong> (USA)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Jack Cochran and Pamela Falkenberg are making personal films together again under the name Outlier Moving Pictures. They hope their new films will be worthy of the name &#8212; avoiding the usual patterns and approaching their subject matter from the margins (which sounds better than saying that as filmmakers they&#8217;re oddballs and cranks). Pam and Jack met in graduate school and made films together when they were young. Jack went on to become a professional cinematographer working out of LA and London, while Pam stayed in the Midwest, where she was a college professor and independent filmmaker before dropping out to work in visual display.<br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Their first film together, &#8220;The Cost of Living,&#8221; based on some of Jack&#8217;s short poems, was accepted by several film festivals, including the Queens World Film Festival (2019), the Buffalo International Film Festival, the Denver Underground Film Festival, and the Cornwall Film Festival; was nominated for two awards at the 2019 Queens World and 2017 Jim Thorpe Film Festivals; and took the award for best experimental film at the 2016 WV FILMmakers Festival. Other short poetry films have screened at the \u00d2 Bh\u00e9al Poetry Film Festival (2016, 2018), and at numerous poetry-film festivals around the world.<\/font><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/149 - Vertigo.jpg\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>Vertigo<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(1:19)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>Vertigo<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\">by Charles Olsen<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; \u2018Searching for balance in our hectic lives.\u2019 <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>Charles Olsen<\/strong> (Spain)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Charles Olsen is a New Zealand artist and poet based in Madrid, Spain, since 2003. He was awarded the III Antonio Machado SxS Fellowship in 2018 and in 2017 he received the XIII distinction Poetas de Otros Mundos for the high quality of his poetic oeuvre from the Fondo Po\u00e9tico Internacional, Spain. His poetry films have been shown at international poetry film festivals and featured online in <i>Moving Poems<\/i>, <i>Atticus Review<\/i>, <i>Blackmail Press<\/i> and <i>Poetry Film Live<\/i>. With Lili\u00e1n Pallares he directs the audiovisual production company antenblue \u2018the observed word\u2019 making films in the literary field. For more about Charles visit <a href=\"http:\/\/charlesolsen.es\">charlesolsen.es<\/a>.<\/font><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/347041367\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/175 - Virginia gave me Roses.jpg\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>Virginia gave me Roses<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(2:05)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>Virginia gave me Roses<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\">by Lani O&#8217;Hanlon<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; A Poetry-Film exploring impermanence, female relationships and the rituals that sustain us in times of sorrow, loss and joy.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>Fiona Aryan<\/strong> (Ireland)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Fiona Aryan is an artist and filmmaker who likes to look at the beauty and magic that can be found in everyday life. &#8216;Going to the Well&#8217;, a poetry-film made with poet Lani O&#8217;Hanlon was shortlisted for the \u00d3 Bh\u00e9al Poetry-Film competition in 2018. She is currently studying for a degree in film and TV production.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/PFlaurel2019smWide.jpg\" width=\"490\" height=\"100\" border=\"0\"\/><\/font><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/353987949\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/177 - Blink.jpg\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>Blink<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(3:17)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>Blink<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\">by Jeff Thomson<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; Condemned to the guillotine, Antoine Lavoisier told his assistant that, as a final experiment, he would blink as many times as he could once his head had left his body.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"> Director: <strong>Amy Neswald<\/strong> (USA)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Amy Neswald is a writer and filmmaker. She currently teaches screenwriting at the University of Maine in Farmington. Her fiction has been published in <i>The Rumpus<\/i>, <i>Green Mountain<\/i> Review, and <i>The Normal School<\/i> and her films have received festival play in the U.S. and abroad.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/555341777\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/186 - Cathedral.jpg\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>Cathedral <\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(2:36)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>Cathedral<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\">by Dave Richardson<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; My brother lost his virginity behind the barn, he says, but he says a lot of things&#8230; sometimes we want to hold on to sanctuaries and cathedrals even as they crumble.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>Dave Richardson<\/strong> (USA)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Dave Richardson is an Associate Professor of Graphic Design at Eastern Illinois University, in Charleston, Illinois, USA, where he teaches interactive and motion design in the Art and Design Department. His MFA is from Indiana University, Bloomington, and his print and motion design work have been exhibited in solo and group shows across the United States and internationally.<\/font><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/230753874\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/194 - Handala's Dream.jpg\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>Handala&#8217;s Dream<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(6:06)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>Handala&#8217;s Dream<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\">by Lina Abojaradeh and Anas Mourad<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; An Arabic\/English video that tells the story of how the Palestinian diaspora came to be and how the art of the greats like Ghassan Kanafani, Mahmoud Darwish and Naji Al-Ali have a huge role in keeping hope for peace and freedom alive. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>Lina Abojaradeh<\/strong> (Jordan \/ Palestine)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Lina Abojaradeh is an Architecture graduate who identifies as an artist and activist. She is a graduate of multiple international fellowships for civic and youth leaders. As founder of the volunteer initiative Archismile, she hopes to use art as a way to engage others, by creating murals with powerful messages in undeserved parts of her community. She is also the winner of multiple international awards in filmmaking, writing and art, including the Plural + Film Award and the \u2018I am a Migrant\u2019 (IAAM) campaign. She aims to use her skills in writing poetry, art, and video making to spread the positive messages she passionately believes in, especially revolving around her home country, Palestine. She has exhibited her work and spoken about her mission in countries including Ireland, Argentina,Turkey, US, Tunisia and Egypt.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yZaYpBqtA6Q\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"399\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/198 - Little Johnny.jpg\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>Little Johnny<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(2:12)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>Little Johnny<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\">by Jordan Murshed<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; &#8216;Little Johnny&#8217; is a short spoken word film created to highlight the issue of Mental Health. The film looks specifically at Ireland and Irish Youth with a clear message that Mental Health is something that we should be talking about.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>Edvinas Maciulevicius<\/strong> (Ireland)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Born in Lithuania and having lived in Cork for most of his life Edvinas Maciulevicius turned a bootstrap crowdfunded film into a documentary feature; &#8216;My Other Life&#8217;  for a national broadcaster (RT\u00c9). Now based in LA Edvinas collaborates with big brands to make &#8216;mini-docs&#8217; about Fitness &amp; Wellbeing, Culture and Travel. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/793682859\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<table padding=\"0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"80\" border=\"0\" bgcolor=\"#E9EDE8\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#E9EDE8\">\n<center><font size=\"2\"><strong>Competition Shortlist &#8211; Screening B<\/strong> <\/font><font size=\"1\">(53:50)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Sunday<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>13th October<\/strong><\/font> @ <font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>5.30pm<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Dali<\/strong>, Carey&#8217;s Lane, Cork<\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/06 - Semi-Automatic Pantoum.jpg\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>Semi-Automatic Pantoum<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(5:34)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>Semi-Automatic Pantoum<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\">by Poetic Justice League, Chicago IL<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; An anti-gun violence poetry-film. \u201cThere are bullets in this poem. So best if you stay home.\u201d<\/font><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>Matt Mullins<\/strong> (USA)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Matt Mullins writes screenplays, fiction, and poetry, and makes poetry-films and digital\/interactive literature. His films have been screened at numerous conferences and film festivals around the world including the Zebra Poetry Film Festival (Germany), Video Bardo (Brazil), Visible Verse (Canada), Liberated Words (England), Co-Kisser (USA), Rabbit Heart (USA), and The Body Electric (USA). His fiction and poetry have appeared in a number of print and online literary journals such as <i>Mid American Review, Pleiades, Hunger Mountain, Descant,<\/i> and <i>Hobart<\/i>. His debut collection of short stories, <i>Three Ways of the Saw<\/i>, was published by Atticus Books and was named a finalist for Foreword Reviews Book of the Year. His experimental, interactive\/digital literary interfaces can be found at lit-digital.com.<\/font><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/319582398\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/18 - We Are The Device.jpg\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>We Are The Device<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(3:06)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>We Are The Device<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\">by Mark Niehus<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; We Are The Device is a Poetry Film which offers an impressionistic glimpse into a future where shifting privacy standards have gone unchecked to the point that it undermines one&#8217;s principles of privacy. The hope is that the film may prompt reflection on the rising concerns about privacy in the digital world. The device has become omnipresent, unseen, every aspect of our protagonist is being monitored to the point where even his walk becomes an algorithm. It is a dark perspective hung on a menacing soundscape.<br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>Mark Niehus<\/strong> (Australia)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Australian Poet and Artist Mark Niehus combines his poetry with digital art, video and music to create outcomes that capture and expand the mood, rhythms and meaning of his writing. Always seeking to discover new ways to apply his experimental ethos to engage audiences and push the boundaries of his art, Mark&#8217;s work illuminates and transforms urban environments and internal spaces into captivating visual canvases and poetic soundscapes. Mark&#8217;s films have been shown on television and at Festivals and around the world including, DELETE TV, Juteback Poetry Film Festival, All Together Now Art &amp; Film Festival, Reelpoetry Film Festival, Newlyn International Film Festival and The Lift-off Sessions.<\/font><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/347899092\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/31 - Song of the Nobird.jpg\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>Song of the Nobird       <\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(3:16)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>Song of the Nobird <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\">by Rosemary Norman <\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; Nobirds are the \u201cno birds\u201d that sing in Keats\u2019s \u201cLa Belle Dame Sans Merci\u201d. The poem is re-imagined as a computer game where the \u201cknight at arms\u201d and the \u201cbelle dame\u201d might win one another if they make the right choices. Real birds as negative images haunt their quest. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>Stuart Pound  <\/strong> (UK)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"> Stuart Pound lives in London and has worked in film, digital video, sound and the visual arts since the early 1970\u2019s. Since 1995 he has collaborated with the poet Rosemary Norman. Video work has been screened regularly in London and at international festivals. Screenings include: BFI London Film Festival EXPERIMENTA 2017, Holland Animation Film Festival (Utrecht) 2017. Ottawa International Animation Festival 2017, Festival international du film d&#8217;animation, Annecy, 2017<\/font><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/333402050\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/62 - Mr Sky.jpg\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>Mr Sky<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(3:48)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>Mr Sky<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\">by Sarah Tremlett and Lucy English<br \/>\n<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; From dawn to nightfall, the sky reflects a couple&#8217;s relationship (don&#8217;t forget to look for the face in the clouds).<\/font><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>Sarah Tremlett<\/strong> (UK)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poetry filmmaker, artist, writer and researcher Sarah Tremlett, MPhil, FRSA, SWIP, is co-director of Liberated Words Poetry Film festival and workshops. Known as a visual philosopher, for her research project on Contemplative Text and Audio-Visual Rhythms Project, and Matternal philosophy (Springer, 2009) she has received commissions (e.g. from Filmpoem in conjunction with the Poetry Society) and given talks on poetry film worldwide, judging at: Newlyn Film Festival, Light Up Poole and Liberated Words. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Screenings include: Zebra, Berlin; Athens Video Poetry Festival; Rabbit Heart, USA; The Poetry Society and presentations including: VideoBardo, Buenos Aires; Tarp, National Gallery of Art, Vilnius; The South Bank Centre, and Encounters Film Festival. Author and editor of The Poetics of Poetry Film, commissioned by Intellect Books, she has directed three films for The Book of Hours (Lucy English) and is creating several collections including: the continuing contemplative poetics series; a series on Time and Light and her ancestral geopoetic, research-based poetry film haibun novel Tree. She recently curated Uprooted \u2013 a touring screening about migration and the refugee crisis.<\/font><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/251826023\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\"> For more visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/sarahtremlett.com\">sarahtremlett.com<\/a> and  <a href=\"http:\/\/liberatedwords.com \">liberatedwords.com <\/a><\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><\/font><font color=\"silver\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/90 - Misery.jpg\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>Misery<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(2:38)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>Misery<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\">by Sarah Sloat and Marie Craven <\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211;  Misery is from visual poetry by Sarah Sloat. Her poetry art is created by using various techniques to &#8216;erase&#8217; most of the words from pages of books, leaving only scattered words to form small poems. To these, she adds \u201bfound\u2019 images, related to her little poems in associative ways that might recall surrealism. The words and images in this video are from Sarah\u2019s collection of erased poems \u201bfound\u2019 in Stephen  King&#8217;s novel, <i>Misery<\/i>. A single poem, like a fragmented narrative, is further \u201bfound\u2019 in Sarah\u2019s \u201berasures\u2019, via juxtapositions and video treatments of the selected visual poetry pieces. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>Marie Craven<\/strong> (Australia)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Marie Craven is a film-maker in Queensland, Australia, who has been making shorts for 35 years. Her work has exhibited extensively at international festivals and events, and gathered several awards. She has released over 60 video poems in the past five years, often made in net-collaboration with poets and other artists around the world. Over the decades, she has freelanced as a teacher of screen-writing at universities, technical colleges and community centres, a reviewer of films and books, an arts administrator, and a curator of film exhibitions, most notably the Australian National Focus at the 1994 Festival de Cine Experimental de Madrid. A major project in 2019-2020 is curating and managing a touring program of international video poems, titled \u201bPoetry + Video\u2019. Her first experience of film-making was in the mid-1980s, in the underground film community in Melbourne.<\/font><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/278697263\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/93 - Letter to anyone who is listening.jpg\" border=\"1\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>letter \u2013 to anyone who is listening<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(1:18)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>letter \u2013 to anyone who is listening<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\">by Doyali Islam<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; How does one inhabit a world in which \u201cthe moon \/ &amp; the drone hang in the same sky\u201d? Doyali Islam\u2019s poem &#8216;letter&#8217; interrogates this question, offering no solutions. The work is saturated with longing \u2013 and charged by it. The poem is one of Doyali Islam\u2019s \u2018split sonnets\u2019 in which she creates a visual split of  7\/7 lines on the page. The \u2018split\u2019 enacts the various psychic traumas, tensions, and ambivalences that we, as humans, carry and the film attempts to reflect this.<br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>Jane Glennie<\/strong> (UK)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Jane Glennie\u2019s work has screened internationally, including: Digital Graffiti (Florida); PoetryFilm (UK\/Iceland); Juteback (Colorado), Cadence (Seattle, WA); Athens Festival (Greece), Poetry + Video (Australia). She was a prizewinner in the Oxford Brookes Poetry Film competition (UK), has been awarded a Jury Special Mention at Weimar Poetry Film Festival (Germany); was a finalist for Best Production One Minute or Under at Rabbit Heart Poetry Film Festival (USA); and a finalist at Poole Poetry Film Competition (UK). Collaborations include: Lucy English for The Book of Hours; and Visible Poetry Project (New York 2018 &amp; 2019). She was a speaker on the poetry film panel at MIX Conference 2019: Experiential Storytelling (Bath Spa University, UK).<\/font><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/330021507\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/107 - Moss.jpg\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>Moss<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(4:02)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>Moss<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\">by Natalie Whittaker<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; The film is an interpretation of Natalie Whittaker\u2019s poem \u2018Moss\u2019. I wanted to make a film version of this beautiful poem with imagery that complemented rather than simply repeated the words in a literal way. I used a series of my abstract photographs, which I\u2019d subsequently animated, to create a sense of a drenched, creeping otherworld \u2013 \u2018moss world\u2019 if you like; the constantly shifting, morphing, spore-emitting world we carry inside us. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>Janet Lees<\/strong> (Isle of Man)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Janet Lees is an artist, poet and poetry filmmaker working primarily with photography, film and collage. Her film-based works have been selected for a wide range of festivals and prizes, including the International Videopoetry Festival and the Aesthetica Art Prize. Her poetry is widely published around the world and has won prizes in many different competitions. Last year she was the visual artist representing the Isle of Man at the Festival Interceltique in Lorient, France, with an exhibition of art photography, poems and poetry films. Her book <i>House of Water<\/i>, which combines her poetry and art photography, was published by Lily Publications in May 2019. <\/font><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/348171600\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/115 - Am I A Monster.jpg\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>Am I A Monster<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(3:25)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>Am I A Monster<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\">by Aasia Majeed<\/font><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; Life should be a journey of self discovery. For some; it is a nightmare, enveloped by persecution and branded by the question&#8230;&#8230;.Am I a Monster ? <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>Paul Broderick<\/strong> (USA)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Paul Broderick has been making poetry films and short films for over five years. With a performing Arts background and a penchant for the Noir, Paul brings a unique interpretation to his films. Paul is an award-winning film maker. His films have been screened in numerous festivals around the world. Through his collaborative and often unexpected vision Paul describes his maxim; &#8220;The medium of film has no boundaries&#8230;.There is no right or wrong, just expression&#8221;.<\/font><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/349225916\">Click on link to view film <\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/118 - Connemara Illuminated.jpg\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>Connemara Illuminated<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(1:51)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>Connemara Illuminated<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\">by Christine Valters Paintner<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; An old poet trying to find inspiration suddenly comes across a shining orb in the middle of the tall Connemara grass. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>Luke Morgan<\/strong> (Ireland)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Luke Morgan is an Irish director and writer. His short films have screened at a variety of festivals, including the Galway Film Fleadh (2015, 2018), The Cork Film Festival (2016, 2018), Richard Harris International Film Festival (2014, 2016 &amp; 2018), the Polish International Film Festival (2016) and the Short Film Corner at Cannes Film Festival (both 2015 and 2016). His debut feature-length film, \u201cSooner or Later\u201d, premiered at the Galway Film Fleadh and Cork Film Festival last year to sell-out audiences, and is currently available to view on Amazon Prime in all of its 68 English-Speaking territories. <\/font><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/321340592\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/128 - Fecund.jpg\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>Fecund<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(1:14)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>Fecund<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\">by Kathy Gee<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; Observing the lush fecundity of her local woodland, the poet contemplates her own responses to childlessness. Filmed and written in Worcestershire, UK. Created with Filmora 9.<br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>Kathy Gee<\/strong> (UK)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Kathy Gee\u2019s career was in heritage. Her poetry collection, <i>Book of Bones<\/i>, was published by V.Press in 2016 and she wrote the spoken word elements for <a href=\"http:\/\/suiteforthefallensoldier.com\">suiteforthefallensoldier.com<\/a>. Her small collection of duologues \u2013 <i>Checkout<\/i>, set in a corner shop \u2013 was published by V.Press in March 2019. Kathy started producing poetry film in January 2019 when she joined the Worcester Poetry Film Collective.<\/font><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/351863608\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/138 - The Beach Woman.jpg\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>The Beach Woman <\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(2:56)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>The Beach Woman<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\">by Alana Daly Mulligan<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; A piece about coming to terms with growing up and growing apart from family.<\/font><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>Alana Daly Mulligan<\/strong> (Ireland)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Alana Daly Mulligan is an award-winning spoken-word &#8220;artivist&#8221; and filmmaker from Waterford, Ireland. Alana&#8217;s work targets heartstrings; battling brutal realities with the desire to connect, feel and love as a human being before everything else. She is the co-founder of the open mic Modwords-Cork and The Lit Young Writers Festival. Alana features in the acclaimed collection of prose and poetry <i>Autonomy<\/i>, <i>Solstice Sounds Volume VI<\/i>, <i>The Quarryman V<\/i> and has been published in the <i>University Express<\/i> and <i>BND<\/i>. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">She has performed internationally at events like All Together Now, The First Fortnight Festival C\u00fairt International Poetry Festival (winning the opportunity to perform at  Electric Picnic 2019) the Three-Dot-Dash-Summit in New York City and act as a support act to Shane Koyczan. Her spoken-word films are internationally recognised, having garnered over 80K views across social media. Alana is a Quercus Active Citizenship Scholar studying English and History in University College Cork.<\/font><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Available to watch in youtube link below:<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PXXMqJypafM\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"399\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/155 - Ithaka.jpg\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>Ithaka <\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(4:26)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>Ithaka<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\">by Constantine P. Kavafy<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; \u201cIthaka\u201d is one among Constantine P.Kavafy\u2019s most important works which was inspired by the Homeric return journey of Odysseus to his home island. The theme of the poem is the happiness found in one\u2019s journey of life and how the maturity of the soul increases over a period of time, still the journey continues and that is all a traveler could ask for.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>Kyriakos Chatzimichailidis<\/strong> (Greece)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Kyriakos Chatzimichailidis was born in 1963 in Thessaloniki. He studied paramedical professions and Cinema, Theater &amp; Photography. Since 1985 he has been working in cinema through most roles involved in filmmaking. In recent years he has been working as a director and short film producer. He has worked for many short films and has produced more than fifty. His productions and the films he has directed have received more than 100 awards at Greek and international festivals. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">In December 2000 he founded t-shOrt, a Non-profit Civic Company whose main object is the production and distribution of short films and additionally all short theatrical and artistic activities. He lives and creates in Athens whilst he gives seminars about screenplay &#8211; direction &#8211; teaching of actors and production of cinema. You can see more information at the site: <a href=\"http:\/\/t-short.gr\/Kyr\/index.asp?lang=en\">t-short.gr\/Kyr<\/a><\/font><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/160 - I Don't Feel Safe Inside my Skin.jpg\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>I Don&#8217;t Feel Safe Inside my Skin<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(2:57)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>Pantoum for Paris 2012 <\/strong> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\">by Aoife Riach<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; A piece of film that seeks to convey the sense of anxiety and fear for one&#8217;s personal safety that most women and many men experience when walking home alone, the selected video footage echoes sentiments from the poem about the isolation of living in a large city and the culture of victim blaming. It uses music and video in tandem with the poem itself. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>Sarah Kelly <\/strong> (Ireland)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Sarah Kelly is a third year fine art student in Crawford College of Art and Design. She is originally from Kilkenny and currently studying in Cork. Her work often deals with images of fragility and ethereality, working with natural plant matter, painting sculpture and video.<\/font><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TMT1o8IhxNU\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"399\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/162 - Lost.jpg\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>LOST<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(3:09)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>LOST<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\">by Caroline Reid<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; A playful fusion of poetry, visual art and film in which a middle aged poet discovers that life\u2019s interruptions to writing poetry are the very substance from which poems emerge.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>Pamela Boutros<\/strong> (Australia)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Living in Adelaide, South Australia Pamela Boutros graduated from UniSA with a Bachelor of Media Arts. She is a photographer by trade and works across the lenses to tell powerful stories of human experiences. Pamela specializes in capturing the energy and craft of live performance in music, theatre and spoken word.<\/font><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/353734675\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/190 - The Garden of the Earthly Delights.jpg\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>The Garden of the Earthly Delights<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(4:19)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>Where is the key?<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\">by Isabel Chiara<\/font><\/center><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; Adaptation of The Garden of the Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Directors: <strong>Juan Ib\u00e1nez<\/strong>  (Spain)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Juan Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez has been directing short films for nine years. He has 35 years of experience as a visual and digital artist and is qualified in Fine Arts, with a 2017 Master in Direction of Audiovisual Fiction. For More visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/juanibanez.wordpress.com\/about\/\">juanibanez.wordpress.com\/about\/<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zippyframes.com\/index.php\/interviews\/painting-and-other-delights-q-a-with-juan-ibanez\">www.zippyframes.com<\/a> Poet Isabel Chiara also co-produced the film.<\/font><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/274644494\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/201 - Home.jpg\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>Home<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(2:16)<\/font><br \/>\n<font size=\"3\" color=\"red\"><\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>Home<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\">by Erin Fornoff<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; Shot over 6000km between Ireland and USA, over 4 airports, and across two continents, &#8216;Home,&#8217; a poetry film featuring work by Erin Fornoff (featured) contrasts the pull and push of a life split between two countries, and the long slog to connect them.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>Dave Knox<\/strong> (Ireland)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">David Knox runs Noname Video and has over 10 years experience in creating video and multimedia including documentary, music videos (for Lankum and Shrug Life, among many others) artistic film, and social media. His work has received multiple millions of views across a variety of social platforms including the <i>Irish Times<\/i> and <i>The Guardian<\/i>. He has been broadcast on numerous TV stations worldwide from Ireland to Indonesia and has also appeared in film festivals both nationally and internationally. With PushPull Collective he has created the renowned film Zozimus, chronicling the last days of Dolymount Stadium, and various features on direct provision, repeal the 8th, and the housing crisis in Ireland. <\/font><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\"><b><font color=\"green\">Dali<\/font>, Carey&#8217;s Lane, Cork<\/b> (Dali used to be the Pav)<\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Dali\/@51.898645,-8.473808,15z\/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x68c88937c32ef300!8m2!3d51.898645!4d-8.473808\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Map2018.jpg\" border=\"1\"\/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><\/font><font size=\"1\"><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00d3 Bh\u00e9al&#8217;s 7th International Poetry-Film competition at IndieCork Festival of Independent Film &amp; Music Sunday 13th October 2019 4pm and 5.30pm &nbsp; @ Blacknight Festival Centre, Dali The shortlist of 31 films featured below will be screened in two parts, at the Blacknight Festival Centre, Dali, Carey&#8217;s Lane, Cork city. 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