{"id":18348,"date":"2022-10-12T09:57:33","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T09:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/?page_id=18348"},"modified":"2024-09-11T16:02:17","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T16:02:17","slug":"poetry-film-shortlist-2022","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/competition-poetry-film\/poetry-film-shortlist-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry-Film Shortlist 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"silver\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"141\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/poetryfilm\/PoetryFilm2022Sm.jpg\" border=\"0\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\">\u00d3 Bh\u00e9al&#8217;s <b>10th<\/b> International <b>Poetry-Film Competition<\/b><\/font><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Sunday 27th November 2022<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>11.30am<\/b> and <b>1.00pm<\/b><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/winter-warmer-poetry-festival\/\"><b>*** FREE &#038; ONLINE ***<\/b><\/a><\/font><\/center><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<font size=\"1\">All shortlisted films will be screened at the <strong>10th<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/winter-warmer-poetry-festival\/\"><strong><font color=\"green\"><strong>Winter <\/strong><\/font><font color=\"#662011\"><strong>Warmer<\/strong><\/font> festival<\/strong><\/a>, Nano Nagle Place, Cork while being streamed live via our website festival stage, Vimeo, Facebook and YouTube channels.<\/p>\n<p><\/font><font size=\"1\" color=\"green\"><strong>30<\/strong><\/font><font size=\"1\"> films were chosen from 173 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/competition-poetry-film\/\"><strong>submissions<\/strong><\/a> received from 100 filmmakers in 33 countries. The 2022 shortlist represents <\/font><font size=\"1 color=\"green\"><strong>17<\/strong><\/font><font size=\"1\"> countries: <\/font><font size=\"1\"><strong>Australia, Belgium, Canada, England, Germany, Ireland, Isle of Man, Northern Ireland, Philippines, Portugal, South Africa, The Netherlands, Ukraine, UK, USA, Wales<\/strong> and <strong>Zimbabwe<\/strong>.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">This year&#8217;s judges <\/font><font size=\"1\"><\/font><font size=\"1 color=\"green\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user29903251\">Colm Scully<\/a><\/b><\/font> <font size=\"1\">and<\/font> <font size=\"1 color=\"green\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/poetryfilmlive.com\/paul-casey-founder-and-director-of-o-bheal-in-cork\/\">Paul Casey<\/a><\/b><\/font><font size=\"1\">, selected one winner to receive the <strong>\u00d3 Bh\u00e9al<\/strong> award for best poetry-film, designed by glass artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glitteringglass.com\/\"><strong>Michael Ray<\/strong><\/a>. The winner was announced directly after the shortlist screenings at \u00d3 Bh\u00e9al&#8217;s 2022 Winter Warmer festival.<\/p>\n<p><center>Our warm congratulations to <strong>Jelle Meys<\/strong> from Belgium, for his winning entry: <\/p>\n<p><b><font color=\"green\">La luna asoma (The moon appears)<\/font><\/b>.<\/center><\/font><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"490\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/poetryfilm\/PFOSlaurel2022vsmWide.jpg\" border=\"0\"\/><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 color=\"green\" size=\"1\">(1.00:10)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><strong>Sunday<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>27th November<\/strong><\/font> @ <font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>11.30am<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/775368685\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"267\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/PoetryFilm\/A01.jpg\" border=\"1\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>La luna asoma (The moon appears)<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(3:37)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>La luna asoma (The moon appears)<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\">by Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; An animated interpretation of the mysterious poem &#8216;La luna asoma&#8217; by the Spanish poet Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>Jelle Meys<\/strong> (Belgium)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Jelle Meys (\u00b01986) is a freelance illustrator and graphic designer, as well as a visual arts teacher, working and living in Sint-Niklaas, Belgium. He got his degree of &#8216;Master in visual arts: graphic design and illustration&#8217; in 2009 at School of arts Ghent, in 2010 he also got his teacher&#8217;s degree there. In 2017 he started taking the film and animation course at the art academy in his home town Sint-Niklaas. Since finishing his work on &#8216;La luna asoma&#8217;, he started working on a new ambitious animation project under the work title of &#8216;Sally&#8217;, a comical story about a man and his unique relationship with a cactus.<\/font><br \/>\n<font size=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/poetryfilm\/PFlaurels2022mwide.jpg\" width=\"490\" height=\"150\" border=\"0\"\/><\/font><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/654410149\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\" frameborder=\"1\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"290\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/PoetryFilm\/A02.jpg\" border=\"1\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>3:45 a.m.<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(5:37)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>3:45 a.m.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\">by Ok Melnikova<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; 3:45 a.m. &#8211; this is the time when our heroes &#8211; Alisa and Bohdan dream of building a strong family and a common future. They promise each other that when they wake up in the morning, everything will be different. But the warm problems they got into make them repeat the same mistakes of sick relationships that lead to exhaustion. But having lived through another difficult emotional day, they have hope for revival, all that remains is to take the right steps.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Directors: <strong>Anastasia Korniienko and Anna Kaliakina<\/strong> (Ukraine)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Anastasia Korniienko and Anna Kaliakina studied together at the Kharkiv State Academy of Culture (2018-2022),  Nastya studyied to be a director and Anna was studyied to be a cameraman. There they met and became friends and started shooting work together. Since their graduation, they still continue to make films together and promote Ukrainian cinema to a new level.<\/font><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"331\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/PoetryFilm\/A03.jpg\" border=\"1\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>Gravura \/ Essence<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(1:59)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>Os Mortos \/ The Dead<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\">by Sophia de Mello Breyner<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; This adaptation follows the perpetual cycle of the immaterial abyss, the faceless human remains walking hungrily for our bodies, wanting to taste once more the true essence of life.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Directors: <strong>Marta Ribeiro, Tiago Pimenta<\/strong> and <strong>Alice do Carmo<\/strong> (Portugal)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Marta Fran\u00e7a Ribeiro was born in Porto, Portugal. She finished high school at Escola Art\u00edstica de Soares dos Reis, specializing in Multimedia, where she made her first short film \u201cHotaru\u201d, winner of the STUFFit Student Film Festival in the Senior Animation Category, and more recently, Cinedita, Shorts Festival of Arganil. She has recently graduated from the Moving Image (Animation) course at the University of Algarve.<\/p>\n<p>Tiago Pimenta recently graduated from the Moving Image (Animation) course at the University of Algarve in Portugal. With a particular interest in special effects and in the field of 3D.<\/p>\n<p>Alice do Carmo recently graduated the Moving Image (Animation) course at the University of Algarve in Portugal. She has experience in the field of video clips and is interested in several areas of animation, particularly Stop-Motion.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"280\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/PoetryFilm\/A04.jpg\" border=\"1\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>Out of the Blue <\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(5:48)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>Out of the Blue <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\">by Pat Boran<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; Out of the Blue is a poem about unexpected arrivals and their often enduring influence.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>Pat Boran<\/strong> (Ireland)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Pat Boran is a poet, broadcaster and editor who has published a dozen books of poetry and prose, and whose poetry films have been shown at festivals in more than 20 countries.<\/font><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IVkHXpHuv34\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"1\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"267\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/PoetryFilm\/A05.jpg\" border=\"1\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>One Art<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(5:21)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>One Art <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\">by Elizabeth Bishop<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; An extract adapted from the feature film Elizabeth Bishop and the Art of Losing, 2022 directed by John D. Scott.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>John D. Scott<\/strong> (USA \/ Canada)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">John D. Scott is a filmmaker and Associate Professor and the program director for the Documentary Studies and Production degree at Ithaca College. Elizabeth Bishop and the Art of Losing is his second feature-length project. Scott\u2019s ten-year journey making Elizabeth Bishop and the Art of Losing started with his fascination with Bishop\u2019s multi-continent search for home after leaving Nova Scotia, and her ultimately victorious struggle to be open and vulnerable in her work. Scott\u2019s films have won multiple awards and glowing reviews in national press including the New York Times and The Globe and Mail. He has directed many short films that have played internationally in over twenty countries and one critically acclaimed feature-length documentary Scouts Are Cancelled purchased by The Documentary Channel (2008-11). He is originally from Nova Scotia and considers himself a Maritimer.<\/font><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"vimeo-player\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/78187244?h=f67d43671e\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"267\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/PoetryFilm\/A06.jpg\" border=\"1\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>Thru Hell<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(2:17)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>Thru Hell<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\">by S&#8217;phongo<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; Thru Hell explores how all human interaction has the potential of being hell when it is not nurtured from a place of love. It is a reminder that we are all similar, and that hurtful intentions, no matter what their source is, can hurt the same. Most importantly, they can be survived.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>S&#8217;phongo<\/strong>  (Zimbabwe)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">A village boy with a dream, S&#8217;phongo is a published author and spoken word artist from south-east Zimbabwe. With two slam champion titles three years into his career as an artist, S&#8217;phongo has appeared on stages in Zambia, Sierra Leone, Italy, Ivory Coast and Zimbabwe. One of his poems has been published on poetrypotion.com (South Africa). He currently works as the Operations Director for VAfrica, a youth media organisation in Sierra Leone and as the senior Technical Officer at LitFest Harare.<br \/>\n<\/font><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JU63884Eufg\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"1\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"267\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/PoetryFilm\/A07c.jpg\" border=\"1\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>Miramis<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(2:26)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>Miramis<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\">by Angie Siveria <\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; Many people have 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 box and take them to a safe place? Angie Siveria&#8217;s poem is a reflection on the ongoing war in Ukraine, her childhood in Donetsk, which is now temporarily occupied. This poetry film is about how people want to save their childhood and everything\/everyone connected with it, to take it with them to a safe place. The animated video was created as the official music video for Oskar Schuster&#8217;s piece &#8220;Miramis&#8221;.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Directors: <strong>Angie Siveria &#038; Oskar Schuster<\/strong> (Germany)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Angie Siveria is an illustrator, designer, filmmaker and essayist. She was born in Donetsk, grew up in Mykolaiv, lived in Kyiv and currently lives in Berlin. Angie has participated and won prizes at the following international film and video festivals: CYCLOP (2012-2015), ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival (Berlin, Germany, 2013, 2016), MOLODIST (Kyiv, Ukraine, 2015), the 4th \u00d3 Bh\u00e9al Poetry-Film Competition (Cork, Ireland, 2015), International poetry festival \u00abLiberated Words\u00bb (Bath Spa University, Bath, United Kingdom, 2015), X International festival of amateur, student and non-professional film &#8220;KINOKIMMERIYA 2015&#8221; (1st and 3rd place, Kherson, Ukraine, 2015), Rabbit Heart Poetry Film Festival (New England, USA, 2016), Roma Poetry Film Festival &#8220;DoctorClip&#8221; (Roma, Italy, 2015), book trailer competition &#8220;Book fashion&#8221; (Kyiv, Ukraine, 2018), Kamianets-Podilsky International Film Festival &#8220;BRUKIVKA&#8221; (Kamianets-Podilsky, Ukraine, 2022) etc.<\/p>\n<p>Oskar Schuster is a German composer and artist, living in Berlin. His songs without words evoke a fairytale-world, strange and surreal. A world full of blurry images of the past; of childhood memories and characters from children&#8217;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. At times reminiscent of Yann Tiersen&#8217;s Am\u00e9lie, his music is still very distinct, arising from a mixture of various influences including experimental electronic music (Aphex Twin, Pogo), the minimalist folk-pop of Beirut, the ethereal and mystical sounds of Sigur R\u00f3s as well as classical piano music by Robert Schumann and Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Chopin.<\/font><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/syUNhNo9avs\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"1\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"267\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/PoetryFilm\/A08.jpg\" border=\"1\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>This is not a confessional poem<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(5:17)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>This is not a confessional poem<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\">by Paula Meehan<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; Irish actress Clare Dunne performs Paula Meehan&#8217;s poem. This film is the final installment in the 2021 Coole Park Poetry Series, a set of 10 films of celebrated Irish poems performed by 11 acclaimed actors, curated by Colm T\u00f3ib\u00edn and produced with Galway&#8217;s Druid theatre company.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>Matthew Thompson<\/strong> (Ireland \/ USA)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Matthew Thompson is an Irish photographer and filmmaker. His films have been exhibited in Dublin and Galway, Ireland, and New York City and Los Angeles, USA. His portrait of Andrew Hozier-Byrne was shortlisted for the Zurich Portrait Award 2020. In 2015, his film collaboration with Broadstone Films, &#8220;New Horizons,&#8221; represented Ireland in the Architectural Biennale, Shenzhen, China. His personal work primarily concentrates on how conditioning influences perception and has been exhibited in New York, Paris, London, Shenzhen, Helsinki, Belfast, and Dublin. Matthew holds a Masters of Fine Art Photography from the University of Ulster, Belfast, and a Bachelor of Design degree from The National College of Art &#038; Design, Dublin.<\/font><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/addRrlvPr2s\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"1\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/PoetryFilm\/A09.jpg\" border=\"1\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>Selkie<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(4:34)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>Selkie<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\">by Ian Duhig &#038; Jackie Morris<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; The folkloric figure of the selkie is an ancient one in these islands and of a mythic family that goes back to Ovid\u2019s Metamorphoses and beyond \u2013 tales of creatures that slip in and out of human form, asking questions about the animal within us, that we partially left behind and, sometimes, may return to completely.<br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>Marry Waterson<\/strong> (England)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Marry Waterson is an English film-maker, singer-songwriter &#038; member of the celebrated Waterson Family musical dynasty. Waterson works with a diverse array of media within word, poetry, song and live audio visual disciplines in collaboration with charities and award-winning artists including Marc Almond and Karine Polwart. Her organic approach layers textures from a palette of both analog and digital, hand painted 16mm cine film, found footage, scanner art, digital images and stop motion.<\/font><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x4k7mCTv70M\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"1\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"267\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/PoetryFilm\/A10.jpg\" border=\"1\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>Ghazal for the Diaspora<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(2:40)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>Ghazal for the Diaspora<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\">by Faisal Mohyuddin<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; Poet Adeeba Shahid Talukder performs Faisal Mohyuddin&#8217;s poem &#8220;Ghazal for the Diaspora.&#8221; Produced with 92nd Street Y.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>Eric Felipe-Barkin <\/strong>(USA)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Eric Felipe-Barkin is a Cuban-American filmmaker, writer, and artist from South Florida. His work has been published by The New York Times, NowThis, the Ford Foundation, and Duke University Press. He is the founder of the production company Filmerico and created the Lincoln Project\u2019s flagship show The Breakdown in the run-up to the 2020 U.S. election. He holds a BFA with honors in Art Semiotics from Brown University and an MFA in fiction writing from Columbia University. He is currently at work on a very secretive podcast that he would be all too happy to tell you about if really pressed.<\/font><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_WSF006diWI\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"1\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/PoetryFilm\/A11.jpg\" border=\"1\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>For the Rockin&#8217; Bus Driver<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(2:43)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>For the Rockin&#8217; Bus Driver<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\">by Cormac Culkeen<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; A prose poem about riding on the Dunmore to Galway City bus route in the early 2000&#8217;s and the interesting bus driver that drove the nightly routes.<\/p>\n<p><\/font><font size=\"1\">Directors: <strong>Mary Tighe<\/strong> and <strong>Cormac Culkeen<\/strong> (Ireland)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Mary Tighe began creating poetry films as a lockdown project in 2020 using Cormac Culkeen&#8217;s poems releasing on the YouTube Channel \u2018Lab for Words\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Cormac Culkeen is a writer of poetry, fiction and short stories who lives in Galway, Ireland. He returned to university full time as a mature student in 2018, completing a BA Connect in Creative Writing in NUI Galway and starting an MA in Writing in September 2022. His written work has been published in <em>The Burning Bush, Skylight 47, The Wild Word, Sonder Magazine, Causeway Magazine, Bindweed Magazine<\/em> and the <em>Galway Advertiser<\/em>\u2019s Vox Galvia New Writing page. Cormac\u2019s first collection of poetry, <em>The Boy with the Radio<\/em>, was published in May 2022 by Beir Bua Press. <\/font><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A8hKcLvHnTw\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"1\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"267\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/PoetryFilm\/A12.jpg\" border=\"1\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>Queueing for the Supercomputer<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(2:35)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>Queueing for the Supercomputer<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\">by Eoghan Totten<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; A nonsense poem addressed to a supercomputer. The speaker meditates on the implicit power of having remote access to such a machine at the touch of a button. Unable to come to terms with the relentless tracts of data produced by the machine, as well as the massive amount of electricity used to power it, the poem takes a sinister turn into an apocalyptic world, where data warehouses drink entire rivers \u2018to their lees\u2019 and fibre optic cables morph into tentacles, and sink the world \u2018like jellyfish deep into the sea\u2019.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>Glenn Marshall<\/strong> (Northern Ireland)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Glenn Marshall&#8217;s professional career in computer animation spans over 20 years, seeing him utilize experimental CGI, generative and AI technologies to pursue a philosophical vision of tomorrow\u2019s digital art.  He is a recipient of the Major Individual Award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, their highest recognition given to leading artists in the country, and also a two-time Prix Ars Electronica winner, a Lumen Prize finalist, and has collaborated with Peter Gabriel and Tangerine Dream on music videos and concert visuals.<\/font><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"267\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/PoetryFilm\/A13.jpg\" border=\"1\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>Borne<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(9:00)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>Borne<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\">by James E. Kenward<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; A failing dancer&#8217;s unchecked ego brings him nothing but pain until he falls for a powerful woman who turns his hands into brushes, his blood into paint, and he dances a magic carpet that can fly them wherever they wish.<br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>James E. Kenward <\/strong> (Germany)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">James E. Kenward wrote and played several characters for the BBC&#8217;s Sony Academy Award nominated show A Series of Psychotic Episodes and he wrote and played the lead role of poetic narrator Skinner for Streets, A New Kind of Musical, which toured the London stages. James worked as an MC in night clubs internationally, before moving into poetry with his solo show Big Truths in Little Things. James&#8217; first poetry collection <em>Talking to Tomatoes<\/em> will be published in 2023 and features the poem Borne on which the film is based. Borne is James&#8217; directorial debut.<\/font><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"267\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/PoetryFilm\/A14.jpg\" border=\"1\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>There\u2019s a certain Slant of light<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(5:00)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>There\u2019s a certain Slant of light<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\">by Emily Dickinson<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; Leaves, shadows, and landscape reveal the words of Emily Dickinson&#8217;s poem, accompanied by the notes of Schoenberg and sounds of a winter garden.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>Susan McCann<\/strong> (USA)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Susan McCann is a visual artist currently living in New Orleans. Her recent work takes inspiration from poetry and our connections to the landscape; expressed through mediums ranging from drawing and printmaking to video and animation. <\/font><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"vimeo-player\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/674009318?h=f67d43671e\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"267\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/PoetryFilm\/A15.jpg\" border=\"1\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>Writing Advice<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(1:16)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>Writing Advice<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\">by Brian Mackenwells<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; A pencil-powered matchbox theatre outlines the risk of using sub-par pencils<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>Brian Mackenwells <\/strong> (Ireland)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Brian Mackenwells is an Irish writer living in Oxford. Despite being quite tired, he has written for the BBC about pencils, told stories on stage about not getting sick in zero gravity, performed standup about strange superheroes, and co-wrote an audio drama every month for five years. His poems have been published in <em>The Dirigible Balloon<\/em> and the <em>Caterpillar<\/em>, and his Irish-language film-poem \u2018Cur S\u00edos\u2018 was chosen for the \u2018Irish Selection\u2019 category at the 2021 \u00d3 Bh\u00e9al Irish poetry festival.  <\/font><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YsGMUHitdaY\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"1\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" 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 color=\"green\" size=\"1\">(1:00:14)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><strong>Sunday<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>27th November<\/strong><\/font> @ <font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>1.00pm<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/775468943\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"267\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/PoetryFilm\/B01.jpg\" border=\"1\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>Confession of an unknown soldier<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(2:24)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>Mom, I was killed in Irpen<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\">by Golovetsky Vasyl<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; The hero of the film is an unknown soldier who has died in the war. He fantasizes about what his life and his mother&#8217;s life would have been like had he survived. In his confession to his mother, he wants to meet her, but since this is impossible, he asks her to come to his grave.<br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>Avramenko Petro<\/strong> (Ukraine)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Honored Artist of Ukraine Petro Mykhailovych Avramenko is a director, actor of theater and cinema. He graduated from Kyiv National University of Theater, Film and Television. Karpenko-Kary, majoring in theater theater, and from the Kyiv National Academy of Management of Culture and Arts with a degree in &#8220;theater director&#8221;. He directed and was host of a satirical and entertaining program on Radio Liberty, directed and acted in the children&#8217;s SD radio book &#8220;Radio Nanny&#8221;. He won the Ivan Franko Prize in the field of information activities and has a distinction of merits in the III degree from the city of Kiev.<\/font><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JNmwk1oVskk\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"1\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"267\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/PoetryFilm\/B02.jpg\" border=\"1\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>Transparant van die Tongvis &#8211; Transparency of the Sole<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(3:50)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>Transparant van die Tongvis<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\">by Antjie Krog<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; A poetry-film about adaptation for the sake of survival. The poet uses the Sole (flatfish) as a metaphor: The fish transforms into a grotesque distortion of fish to survive in the ever-hostile environment on the food-chain. Likewise, her children must transform to survive in a complicated social environment.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>Diek Grobler<\/strong> (South Africa \/ The Netherlands)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Diek Grobler lives and works in Pretoria, South Africa. He trained as a visual artist and has been working with animation for 20 years. His films for children have won awards at KROK, Hiroshima, Tindirindis and Teheran. Since 2009 he has focuses in his personal work on animated poetry-film. His poetry-films have been shortlisted for \u00d3 Bh\u00e9al\u2019s Poetry Film Competition, the Weimar Poetry-Film award and the Poetry Film Live award.<\/font><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/888281290\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\" frameborder=\"1\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"267\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/PoetryFilm\/B03.jpg\" border=\"1\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>Iktsuarpok<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(3:12)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>Iktsuarpok<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\">by Nora Nadjarian<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; Iktsuarpok is an Inuit word, meaning the impatient excitement for a visit that makes you look out the window countless times in the hope of seeing your guest arrive.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"> Director: <strong>Marius Grose<\/strong> (UK)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Marius Grose began his career in television post-production in 1983. He worked as a tape operator and assistant editor in Bristol and London for the BBC and ITV networks. Marius has cut programmes for all the major broadcasters in the UK as well USA companies such as National Geographic and Discovery. He has worked on programmes that range from wildlife documentaries, factual entertainment shows, current affairs such as Channel 4\u2019s Dispatches, and feature films. In 2002 Marius was nominated for the Royal Television Society\u2019s feature picture editor of the year award in recognition of his creative storytelling.<\/font><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/686738228\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\" frameborder=\"1\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"267\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/PoetryFilm\/B04.jpg\" border=\"1\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>But More Often<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(3:10)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>Kung Hindi Man (But More Often)<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\">by Richard Soriano Legaspi<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211;  A poetic film about living and believing, a performance art documented as a form of conceptual presentation that aims to motivate a better understanding about the self in relation with society&#8217;s issues, diverse concept of migration, and the philosophical reflections about time and space through the concept of Michel Foucault.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>Richard Soriano Legaspi<\/strong> (Philippines)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Legaspi is an inter-discplinary artist and was a filmmaking fellow at the prestigious Asian Film Academy in Busan, South Korea. In 2013, he received the UNESCO Laureate scholarship and eventually became a resident artist of the Universit\u00e0 delle Idee \u2013 Italy. He was part  <em>Plague 2020: Covid Anthology<\/em> poetry book in 2020. He was one of the competitive grant winners of the NCCA Values Short Film Festival and one of the international fellows of Tech Tales: Films about digital rights in the Asia-Pacific. In Australia he was a Student Auditor at the 14th NAFF (Network of Asian Fantastic Films). He is a Master Session and FDCP CreatePH Script writing development grantee in cooperation with Tatino Films and worked in France for a full-length narrative &#8216;The Legend of the Wild Rose Mallow&#8221;. His mini-docu &#8220;Small Steps&#8221; recently won a Special Mention Award in Kota Kinabalu International Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p><\/font>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"270\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/PoetryFilm\/B05.jpg\" border=\"1\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>The Dunkettle Roundabout<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(3:28)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>The Dunkettle Roundabout<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\">by Phil Spillane<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; The Dunkettle Roundabout is the interchange road between Cork City and Dublin. This poem responds to the dominance of motorways, how it disrupts nature and culture.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>Philip Spillane<\/strong> (Ireland)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Phil Spillane is a poet, musician and writer from Ireland. He has performed his works in Cork, Dublin and Lisbon. Throughout 2021 he curated an online event, The LockedOut Collection: a video of poetry-film and music from various artists worldwide hosted on YouTube. He just finished a Masters in Creative Writing at University Limerick and was recently published in the <em>Ogham Stone<\/em> 2022. Today he&#8217;s working on an arts show with musician Lucas P\u00e9rez titled Trippin\u2019Magic.<\/font><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4x-4XuLuGvQ\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"1\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"273\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/PoetryFilm\/B06.jpg\" border=\"1\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>Buying a Camper<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(1:25)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>Buying a Camper<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\">by Nicholas McGaughey<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; Having bought a camper and studied its undercarriage in great detail, the purchaser is aware of all the great times and summers that this van has been part of. But because of the pandemic it has been left in a nervous street\u2026.although its wheels face out towards the sea\u2026.<br \/>\n <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>Nicholas McGaughey<\/strong> (Wales)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Nicholas McGaughey is a Welsh television actor and voice actor, also a published writer of poetry and short fiction. He is a Literature Wales mentee and his work appears in <em>Poetry Wales, The Ogham Stone, Ink Sweat and Tears, Prole<\/em> and <em>The Poetry Archive<\/em>, among others. \u2018Buying A Camper\u2019 was first published in the <em>Beyond The Storm<\/em> anthology (Write Out Loud, 2020). He lives in Wales and is a grandfather.<\/font><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jgBXzZGYjqs\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"1\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/PoetryFilm\/B07.jpg\" border=\"1\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>Strata<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(3:35)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>Strata<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\">by Jack Cooper <\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; \u201cStrata\u201d was inspired by deep time: the sharp perspective it gives to human suffering and joy, comforting in its reminder that all things are temporary. <\/p>\n<p>The film is heavily influenced by the art of Thomas Downing (1928-1985) and the \u2018spot paintings\u2019 of Damien Hirst (1965-). The polka dot style made famous in their works is replicated in our film: the childlike geometric simplicity is a reflection of the fundamental primitivity of life, of \u201cfeeding and breeding\u201d. Consistent with these themes of simplicity and crudeness, the film does not use music, choosing instead to rely on the natural sounds of the world around us: waves crashing on a sandy shore, and the whistling wind. The use of multiple readers is a deliberate reference to the poem\u2019s themes of reproduction and replication.<br \/>\n <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>Alexander Jones<\/strong> (UK)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Alexander Jones is a civil servant, based in London, United Kingdom. An untrained amateur artist, Strata is his first film, produced in conjunction with friend and long-time collaborator, Jack Cooper.<\/font><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"267\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/PoetryFilm\/B08.jpg\" border=\"1\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>Rodent <\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(2:20)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>Rodent <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\">by Luke Morgan<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; From the collection <em>Beast<\/em> (Arlen House, 2022), Rodent is a poem about the author\u2019s heart condition. Join Tig the rat for a light-hearted exploration of the poet coming to terms with the pesky pet in his chest. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>Luke Morgan<\/strong> (Ireland)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Based in Galway Ireland, Luke Morgan\u2019s films have been shown around the world &#8211; from USA to Japan, from South Africa to Dublin. He has won awards for his work, most notably &#8220;Best Short&#8221; at Garden Route Film Festival in 2021, and &#8220;Best Director&#8221; at the Worcester Film Festival in 2021 among others. His work has previously been shortlisted by \u00d3 Bh\u00e9al, including \u201cConnemara Illuminated\u201d in 2019 and \u201cLight Throwing Light On Nothing By Itself\u201d in 2021. In addition to movies, Luke is a published poet and is available at lukemorgan.ie.<\/font><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/713205131\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\" frameborder=\"1\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>713205131<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"267\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/PoetryFilm\/B09.jpg\" border=\"1\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>Because Goddess is Never Enough<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(10:00)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>Because Goddess is Never Enough<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\">by Rosie Garland<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; Who was Tilly Losch? Dancer, artist, choreographer, lover, wife, muse \u2026Tilly was an Austrian dancer who worked with prominent, and cutting-edge, choreographers and artists from the West End to Hollywood. She was also a choreographer in her own right, who later turned to painting. The film investigates the elusive and fragmentary nature of Tilly\u2019s life, evoking the spirit of the 1920s\u201340s when she was at the peak of her fame. <\/p>\n<p>The film is about self-worth, the authentic self, and the credibility of creative women \u2013 Losch was someone who was at times exploited yet determined to maintain a path of her own making despite the obstacles that were very much present in her era. The parallels of Losch and the way women are STILL portrayed in the 21st century through the lens of the media and by society, forms a powerful and thought-provoking statement about female identity.<br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>Jane Glennie<\/strong> (UK)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Jane Glennie makes poetry films that have screened at festivals across the world, featured on www.shondaland.com and at the Southbank Centre. They have received distinctions and awards at Weimar Poetry Film Competition (Germany), Oxford Brookes Poetry Film Competition (UK), Rabbit Heart Poetry Film Festival (USA), and Poole Poetry Film Competition (UK). <\/font><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/671884332\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\" frameborder=\"1\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"267\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/PoetryFilm\/B10.jpg\" border=\"1\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>Someone was Always dying somewhere<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(4:07)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>Someone was Always dying somewhere<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\">by Howie Good<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; Death and loss are never the same. The poem is based on phrases from Duane Swierczynski&#8217;s novel <em>Fun and Games<\/em> (Mullholland Books) and Donald Ray Pollock&#8217;s novel <em>The Devil All the Time<\/em> (Doubleday)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>Marc Neys<\/strong> (Belgium)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Marc Neys is a Belgian composer and video artist with more than 400 videopoems and numerous festival selections and screenings to his name. Over the last few years he has focused more on his music, and released 4 CDs<\/font><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/712994753\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\" frameborder=\"1\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"267\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/PoetryFilm\/B11.jpg\" border=\"1\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>The Life We Live Is Not Life Itself<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(8:45)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>\u0397 \u03b6\u03c9\u03b7\u0301 \u03c0\u03bf\u03c5 \u03b6\u03bf\u03c5\u0301\u03bc\u03b5 \u03b4\u03b5\u03bd \u03b5\u03b9\u0301\u03bd\u03b1\u03b9 \u03b7 \u0396\u03c9\u03b7\u0301<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;(The Life We Live Is Not Life Itself) <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\">by Tasos Sagris<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; Tasos Sagris\u2019s poem, with its haunting soundtrack by Whodoes, offers us an extended exploration of lives lived in parallel, at cross-purposes, in and out of love, around the world, from the innocence of children to the wisdom of elders.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>Ian Gibbins<\/strong> (Australia)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Ian Gibbins is a widely-published poet, video artist and electronic musician living on Kaurna land in Adelaide, South Australia. He has four books of poetry and his videos have been shown to acclaim around the world in festivals, galleries, installations, and public art programs. Until he retired in 2014, Ian was an internationally recognised neuroscientist and Professor of Anatomy.<\/font><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/512116821\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\" frameborder=\"1\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"267\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/PoetryFilm\/B12.jpg\" border=\"1\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>Merry<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(1:27)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>Merry<\/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; A cozily sinister short animated film about holidays, consumerism, plastic pollution and the climate crisis. The last part of a trio of plastic pollution-themed poetry videos.<\/font><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Directors: <strong>Fiona Tinwei Lam, Lara Renaud and Quinn Kelly<\/strong> (Canada \/ USA)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Vancouver&#8217;s 6th Poet Laureate, Fiona Tinwei Lam has published three collections of poetry and a children&#8217;s book. Her poems have been featured in <em>Best Canadian Poetry<\/em> and thrice with BC&#8217;s Poetry in Transit, as well as in award-winning poetry videos made in collaboration with filmmakers that have screened worldwide. Shortlisted for the City of Vancouver Book Prize and other awards, her work has been included in over 40 anthologies.<\/p>\n<p>Co-director Lara Renaud is a multidisciplinary student artist, studying to receive her BFA in animated arts at Pacific Northwest College of Art. She was born in Aurora, Illinois, moved to Portland Oregon, and has spent time studying art in upstate New York. She creates based on her own experiences; and attempts to capture the essence of the climate crisis, mental illness, and other social\/political issues.<\/p>\n<p>Co-director Quinn Kelly was born in Vancouver, Canada. He is currently a student filmmaker working toward his BFA at Pacific Northwest College of Art. He specializes in animation, comics, editing, and sound production.<\/font><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/742834718\/4e5ddaabbb\">Click here to view film<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/PoetryFilm\/B13.jpg\" border=\"1\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>Immigrants Open Shops<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(5:01)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>Immigrants Open Shops<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\">by Sarah Wimbush<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; The truth about the world economy: immigrants open shops.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>Pat Boran <\/strong> (Ireland)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Pat Boran is a poet, broadcaster and editor who has published a dozen books of poetry and prose, and whose poetry films have been shown at festivals in more than 20 countries.<\/font><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8MTToyg2-9U\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"1\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"267\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/PoetryFilm\/B14.jpg\" border=\"1\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>Descent<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(4:45)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>Descent<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\">by Janet Lees <\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; Coco Chanel reportedly said, &#8216;A woman who doesn&#8217;t wear perfume has no future&#8217;. When I read this quote I was moved to make a poem entirely from perfume brand names (with the occasional linking word). The word &#8216;descent&#8217; is an anagram of &#8216;scented&#8217;. The film poem explores the descent of so-called civilised societies from innocence and freedom to worship of the machine; the slavery of consumerism, in which designer brands are afforded the status of holy icons.<\/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 a lens-based artist and poet. Her films have been selected for many festivals and screenings, including the Aesthetica Art Prize, the International Vidoepoetry Festival, and the Zebra Poetry Film Festival. In 2021 she won the \u00d3 Bh\u00e9al Poetry-Film competition. Her art photography has been exhibited around the world and her poetry is widely published and anthologised. She has had two books published: <em>House of water<\/em>, a collection of her poems and art photographs, and <em>A bag of sky<\/em>, the winning collection in the Frosted Fire Firsts prize hosted by the UK&#8217;s Cheltenham Poetry Festival.<\/font><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/431448009\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\" frameborder=\"1\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"267\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/PoetryFilm\/B15.jpg\" border=\"1\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>Forest Earth<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(2:45)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>Forest Earth<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\">by David Ian Bickley<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; David has been working on ideas around this project since the early \u201980\u2019s \u2014 that of the dreaming spirit of the forest, an entity beyond both our perception and what we imagine might be the perception of the forest.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>David Ian Bickley<\/strong> (Ireland)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Anglo Irish artist, filmmaker and musician David Bickley (b. 1961) audio visual works\/ installations are abstracted, largely process led adventures mainly on themes of nature\/ landscape but also with points of reference to mythology and symbolism. 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