{"id":5900,"date":"2016-09-21T13:24:45","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T13:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/?page_id=5900"},"modified":"2024-09-09T11:29:18","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T11:29:18","slug":"poetry-film-shortlist-2016","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/competition-poetry-film\/poetry-film-shortlist-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry-Film Shortlist 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"silver\"><a href=\"http:\/\/indiecork.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/PoetryFilm2016m.jpg\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><\/font><br \/>\n<center><strong><em>16th October 2016<\/em><\/strong><\/center><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<center><font size=\"1\"><i>In partnership with the<\/i><br \/>\n&nbsp;<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><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<font size=\"2\">the<strong> 4th \u00d3 Bh\u00e9al Poetry-Film Competition<\/strong><\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The competition shortlist of 28 films will be screened in two parts, at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blacknight.press\/135106-indiecork-and-blacknight-announce-the-blacknight-festival-centre\">Blacknight Festival Centre, <strong>Kino Cinema<\/strong><\/a> on Washington St (see map beneath this programme).<\/p>\n<p>The films were chosen from 163 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/?page_id=2532\"><strong>submissions<\/strong><\/a> from 28 countries, completed in the last two years. This year the shortlisted entries represent fifteen countries: Ireland, USA, Australia, UK, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Ukraine, Canada, Israel, Italy, Estonia, Finland, Belarus and Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>The 2016 \u00d3 Bh\u00e9al judges, poet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kathydarcy.com\/\">Kathy D&#8217;Arcy<\/a> and filmmaker \/ CEO of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/filmincork.com\/\">Film in Cork<\/a><\/strong> Rossa Mullin, selected one overall winner to receive the <strong>Indie<\/strong><font color=\"red\"><b>Cork<\/b><\/font> festival award for best poetry film.<\/p>\n<p><center>Our congratulations to winner <strong>Marie Craven<\/strong> from Australia for her poetry-film, <b><font color=\"green\">Dictionary Illustrations<\/font><\/b>.<\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/indiecork.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/indie2016.jpg\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<center><strong><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><a href=\"http:\/\/indiecork.com\/information\/contact-us\/\">Tickets<\/a><\/font><\/strong> to each screening are \u20ac<strong>5.50<\/strong> (conc. \u20ac5.00)<\/center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/PFOSlaurel2016vsm.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 size=\"1\">(49:56)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Sunday<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>16th October<\/strong><\/font> @ <font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>12.00pm<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Blacknight Festival Centre<\/strong>, Kino Cinema, Washington St. 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\/2016\/09\/007 - Dotan Gur - Sun Hours.jpg\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>Sun Hours<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(2:00)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>Sun Hours<\/strong> by Adi Tishrai<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; The video is about the desire to enjoy the sun during the &#8220;sun hours&#8221;, versus the boring and depressing routine of a 9-5 job.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>Dotan Gur<\/strong> (Israel)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">In 2014 Dotan completed his BA in Television and Cinema at Tel Aviv University. He has directed the short film &#8220;Man needs a maid&#8221; (2013) and the commercials &#8220;Rov Ha&#8217;ear&#8221; (2014) and &#8220;Love Me&#8221; (2014). He won the &#8220;bezefer&#8221; competition and is also a photographer and editor.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ktOJE2Qusuc\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"399\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><\/font><font size=\"1\"><\/font><font size=\"1\"><\/font><font size=\"1\"><\/font><font size=\"1\"><\/font><font size=\"1\"><\/font><font size=\"1\"><\/font><font size=\"1\"><\/font><font size=\"1\"><\/font><font size=\"1\"><\/font><font size=\"1\"><\/font><font size=\"1\"><\/font><font size=\"1\"><\/font><font size=\"1\"><\/font><font size=\"1\"><\/font><font color=\"silver\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/012  - Diana Taylor - Once in Whitley Bay.jpg\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>Once in Whitley Bay<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(3:54)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>Once in Whitley Bay<\/strong> by Robin Kidson<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; A young man in 1965 fantasises about the surfing in the USA and compares it to his own culture in northern England.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>Diana Taylor<\/strong> (UK)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Diana is a director at Redcliffe Films and has been working with Bristol Poets making poetry films since 2009. Her films have been shown in major venues in around Bristol including the Watershed , the Arnolfini , Colston Hall Cube Cinema, the BBC Big Screen and Old Vic Theatre Bristol. Diana\u2019s poetry films have also been selected for the Portabello Film Festival, London, The Zebra International Poetry Festival Berlin, Annual Programme Without Frontiers Barcelona, Liberated Words Poetry Film Festival Bristol, Visible Verse  Poetry Film Festival Vancover, Sadho International Poetry Film Festival New Delhi, Athens International Poetry Film Festival, Rabbit Heart Poetry Film Festival USA. She was shortlisted for the Kiev International Poetry Film Festival.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Diana has a poetry YouTube channel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/taylor9ization\">Taylor9ization<\/a> and a Diana Taylor Poetry Shorts Facebook Page.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/baeIIg7kymA\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"399\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><\/font><font size=\"1\"><\/font><font size=\"1\"><\/font><font size=\"1\"><\/font><font size=\"1\"><\/font><font size=\"1\"><\/font><font size=\"1\"><\/font><font size=\"1\"><\/font><font size=\"1\"><\/font><font size=\"1\"><\/font><font size=\"1\"><\/font><font size=\"1\"><\/font><font size=\"1\"><\/font><font size=\"1\"><\/font><font size=\"1\"><\/font><font color=\"silver\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/025 - Marie Craven - Dictionary Illustrations.jpg\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>Dictionary Illustrations<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(2:13)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\" color=\"red\">WINNER<\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>Dictionary Illustrations<\/strong> by Sarah Sloat<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; Searching for a word, I set off browsing the dictionary illustrations.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>Marie Craven<\/strong> (Australia)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Marie Craven assembles short videos from poetry, music, voice and moving images by various artists around the world. Created via the internet, the pieces are collaborative in a way that belongs to the 21st century. Social networking and open media licensing are key to the process. Since 2014, Marie has put together many video poems, most often in association with The Poetry Storehouse and Pool creative group.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">She has also collaborated for several years as a vocalist with electronic musicians globally, also via the internet. During the 1990s and early 2000s she wrote and directed short narrative and experimental films that were screened and awarded widely at international film festivals. Her earliest involvement in media was in the mid-1980s with super 8 film-making in Melbourne.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/mariecraven\">http:\/\/vimeo.com\/mariecraven<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/poetryfilm\/150x2.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"middle\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/PFlaurel2016vsm.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"middle\"\/><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/font><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/165667078\" 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\/2016\/09\/026 - Marie Craven - One Dream Opening Into Many.jpg\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>One Dream Opening Into Many<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(3:15)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>One Dream Opening Into Many<\/strong> by Kallie Falandays<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; A constructed stream of consciousness: mother sun blue bird skin dying water.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>Marie Craven<\/strong> (Australia)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">As per <em>Dictionary Illustrations<\/em> above.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/mariecraven\">http:\/\/vimeo.com\/mariecraven<\/a><\/font><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/159052173\" 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\/2016\/09\/030 - Bau Zhu - Red Line Haiku.jpg\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>Red Line Haiku<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(4:24)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>Red Line Haiku<\/strong> by Brian Kirk<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; Dublin is an old city and the Red Line is a new mode of transport. This film explores the twin ideas of tradition and modernity and how they overlap in our lives all the time. It observes the daily interactions of members of the public on the trams as they travel into and out of the city.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>Bao Zhu<\/strong> (China\/Ireland)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Bao Zhu is a passionate \ufb01lm maker who comes from China. After achieving a bachelor degree of management in China, she decided to go abroad to pursue her dream of \ufb01lm. She is currently a student studying television operation and production in Ballyfermot College of Further Education. She is on the way to starting a career via a camera view\ufb01nder.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HhMtduCnUM0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"399\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/050 - Kuesti Fraun - SMART USER.jpg\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>SMART USER<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(0:44)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>SMART USER<\/strong> by Kuesti Fraun<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; A reinterpretation of the Lord&#8217;s Prayer.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>Kuesti Fraun<\/strong> (Germany)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Kuesti Fraun is an independent filmmaker and author from Germany specialized in the production of short-format stories in motion picture and sounds.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fXSphJPBud8\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"399\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/056  -Martha McCollough - two story train.jpg\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>Two Story Train<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(1:46)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>Two Story Train<\/strong> by Martha McCollough<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; <i>Two Story Train<\/i> is a collage of elements including film shot on an iPhone in Massachusetts and West Texas and altered stock footage. It is concerned with the desert, adaptation, and extinction.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>Martha McCollough<\/strong> (USA)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Martha McCollough is a writer and video artist living in Chelsea, Massachusetts. Her poems have appeared in <i>The Baffler, Cream City Review<\/i>, and <i>Salamander<\/i>, among others. Her videopoems have appeared in <i>Triquarterly, Datableed<\/i>, and <i>Atticus Review<\/i>, and at film festivals including Visible Verse and Liberated Words.<\/font><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/159309778\" 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\/2016\/09\/069 - Jason Lam - Us Right Now.jpg\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>Us Right Now<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(6:00)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>Song of Calling<\/strong> by Dr Gareth Jenkins<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; Set in the semi-darkness and overlaid with sparse poetic vocals this collaboration is a work of intimate moments, building rhythms, and architectural physicality which turn the viewer into voyeur. Inspired by the motion of rocking their newborn, Adam and Lisa explore the movement in a sensual, romantic duet where their relationship is reborn and rediscovered as they explore their physical and emotional nakedness.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Gareth Jenkins\u2019 poetry and vocal delivery draw together the themes of new life, rediscovery and sensuality in the refrain of reunion: <i>we meet and we meet again<\/i>. The poet emphasises the potential of the breath, bodily movement and skin to create and complicate human connection.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>Jason Lam<\/strong> (Australia)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Dr Jason Lam is the other kind of doctor. He was also a respected dancer performing widely as an independent artist and with companies such as Sydney Dance Company, Opera Australia and tasdance and continues to teach. He also works as a visual artist, filmmaker and photographer and has created works for the Australian Ballet, Sydney Dance Company, Sydney Theatre, and the Bavarian State ballet amongst others. His films have shown nationally and internationally.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">He is much too disorganized to have an up to date website but a brief glimpse may be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaboomstudios.com\">www.kaboomstudios.com<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/076 - John Weselcouch - DADA.jpg\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>DADA!<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(6:53)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>DADA!<\/strong> by Stephen Chang<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; Told through creative imagery, homemade props, and the exploitation of reluctant family members as actors, the 7-minute film <i>DADA!<\/i> will leave you with the Kubrick-esque feeling of <em>\u201cWhat the fuck did I just see?\u201d<\/em> while at the same time resonating on a deeper level with the internal hopes and fears we all mask in our lives.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>John Weselcouch<\/strong> (USA)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">John Weselcouch is known for his work on <i>The Purge<\/i> (2013), <i>Like Crazy<\/i> (2011) and <i>A Sense of Humor<\/i> (2011). Stephen Chang is 31 years old and was born in Los Gatos, CA. He currently is an actor\/filmmaker living in Los Angeles, CA with his wife Krystal, newborn son Stevie, and dog Tux. This is Stephen Chang and John\u2019s Weselcouch\u2019s first collaboration together and Stephen Chang\u2019s d\u00e9but film.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QcZwryKQh2E\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"399\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/088 - Patrick O Shea - Peter And The Wolf.jpg\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>Peter and the Wolf (Aladdin Sane?) <\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(4:25)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>Peter and the Wolf (Aladdin Sane?)<\/strong> <i>after David Bowie<\/i> &#8211; by Stanley Notte<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; A film that reflects a (found) poem written using David Bowie Song titles that is both a tribute to David Bowie, and a commentary on mental health issues, particularly in men.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>Patrick O\u2019 Shea<\/strong> (Ireland)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Patrick studied film in DIT Aungier St. after which he moved to Luxembourg and worked in the film studios of Carousel Pictures and Deluxe Productions. His debut feature film <i>Tree Keeper<\/i> premiered at the 56th Cork Film Festival and has screened around the world. He directed <i>The Brutal Truth<\/i> which won Best in Cork at the 2016 Fastnet Film Festival and <i>Jackie Oh!!!<\/i> which won the Consulate of Ireland award at the 2015 Chicago Irish Film Festival. His short film <i>Penny<\/i> won the Prize for \u2018Best Drama\u2019 at the Corona International Fastnet Short Film Festival in 2009 and screened on RT\u00c9 as part of its Short Screen series.<\/font><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/177711724\" 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\/2016\/09\/100 - The Nat King Cole Post Office - Pamela Falkenberg and Jack Cochra.jpg\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>The Nat King Cole Post Office<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(1:31)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>The Nat King Cole Post Office <\/strong> by Jack Cochran<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; In this personal experimental film mashup by Jack Cochran and Pam Falkenberg, the poet&#8217;s trip to the Nat King Cole Post Office in LA unexpectedly morphs into an offer of salvation followed by bickering amongst some great philosophers and visits to Friedrich Nietzsche&#8217;s and Nat King Cole&#8217;s graves. This short video is a stand alone follow up in the same style as the longer compi-lation video, &#8220;The Cost of Living.&#8221; Like &#8220;Cost,&#8221; &#8220;The Nat King Cole Post Office&#8221; takes as its start-ing point a Polaroid still and a short poem written by Jack Cochran, but from there, found footage, special effects, and a collage of audio sources combine with live action footage in ways perhaps not possible before the ubiquity of the internet and the affordability of high quality HD video equipment.<\/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\">Pam Falkenberg is an independent filmmaker who received her PhD from the University of Iowa, where she directed the largest student film society in the US. She also ran film series for the Snite Museum of Art in South Bend, IN. Her experimental film with Dan Curry, Open Territory, received an individual filmmaker grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as grants from the Center for New Television and the Indiana Arts Council. OT was screened at numerous film festivals, including the AFI Video Festival, and was nominated for a regional Emmy. Her other films include museum installations, scholarly\/academic hybrid works shown at film conferences, and a documentary commissioned by the Peace Institute at the University of Notre Dame.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Jack Cochran is an independent filmmaker who has produced, directed, or shot a variety of ex-perimental and personal projects. He also works as a Director of Photography, with extensive experience shooting commercials, independent features, and documentaries. His features and documentaries have been shown at the Sundance, Raindance, Teluride, Tribeca, Edinburgh, Chicago, Houston, and Taos film Festivals, winning several honors. His commercials and documentaries have won Silver Lions from Cannes, a BAFTA (British Academy Award), Peabody Awards, and Cable Aces. Jack was trained at the University of Iowa Creative Writers Workshop as well as the University of Iowa film studies program. Some of his notable credits include Director of Photography on Brian Griffin&#8217;s Claustrofoamia, Cinematography for Antony Thomas\u2019 Tank Man, Director\/Cinematographer of vientonocturno, and Cinema-tographer of Ramin Niami\u2019s feature film Paris.<\/font><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/110 - Karoline Georges - REPERES.jpg\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>Rep\u00e8res <\/strong>(Landmarks)<\/font> <font size=\"1\">(5:47)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>Rep\u00e8res <\/strong>(Landmarks) by Karoline Georges<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; 13 black and white landscapes from Montreal, Vancouver, Toronto, New York, Amsterdam, Paris, London, Berlin and Hamburg, each present a poetic suggestion, in French, integrated into the urban environment.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">&nbsp;<br \/>\nDirector: <strong>Karoline Georges<\/strong> (Canada)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Karoline Georges, born in Montr\u00e9al, Canada is an interdisciplinary artist and writer. Her artistic research is guided by her quest for a different kind of sublime &#8211; a polymorphic, hybrid sublime. Taking the form of video, 3D modelling, literature, sound and virtual photography, her works are populated by digital avatars, clones and networked consciences; through them, she seeks a digital form of transcendence, poetry and spirituality. As a writer, she has published several literary works, including <i>Under the Stone<\/i>, Anvil Press, Vancouver; <i>La Mue de l\u2019hermaphrodite<\/i>, Lem\u00e9ac, Montr\u00e9al \/ \u00c9ditions \u00e8re, Paris; <i>Ataraxie<\/i>, L\u2019Effet pourpre, Montr\u00e9al; <i>Sous B\u00e9ton<\/i>, Alto, Qu\u00e9bec; and <i>Variations Endog\u00e8nes<\/i>, Alto, Qu\u00e9bec.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">She has exhibited works throughout Canada, Europe and the Americas, most notably at the Rencontres Internationales Paris\/Berlin\/Madrid, the International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartagena, the Vancouver Visible Verse Festival, ORANGE, Contemporary Art Event of Saint-Hyacinthe, la Biennale internationale des po\u00e8tes en Val-de-Marne, Mois de la Po\u00e9sie, La Bande Vid\u00e9o and Festival Voix d\u2019Am\u00e9riques. In 2012, she received the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Qu\u00e9bec\u2019s prize for artistic creation.<\/font><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/180105247\" 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\/2016\/09\/138 - Angie Bogachenko - Love Mykolaiv if you dare.jpg\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>Love Mykolaiv if you dare<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(4:32)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>About form<\/strong> by Yurii Andrukhovych<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; The film introduces viewers to architecture and the peculiarities of life in Nikolaev. We love our city, but over the years it loses shape. How to correct it? Imagine that you found a magic music box, which is able to change any of the drawbacks.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>Angie Bogachenko<\/strong> (Ukraine)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Anzhela Siveria (Bogachenko) is an illustrator, designer, filmmaker and essayist. She was born in Donetsk, grew up in Mykolaiv and now lives in Kiev. Anzhela takes part in various literary, film and videopoetry festivals.Anzhela has participated and won prizes in festivals: poetry festival \u201cWaterline\u201d (Mykolaiv, 2015), vieopoetry festival \u201cBathyscaphe\u201d(Mykolaiv, 2013), \u201cVoloshyn\u2019s September\u00bb (Crimea, 2013-2015), \u00abCYCLOP\u00bb (Kyiv, 2012-2015), \u00abZebra\u00bb (Berlin, 2014), \u201cDays of Ukrainian cinema in Spain\u201d (Spain, Catalonia, 2014), \u201cChestnut House\u201d (2013), \u201cOpen Night\u201d (Kyiv, 2015), \u201cMolodist\u201d (Kyiv, 2015), \u201cDoctorClip\u201d (Rome, Italy \u2013 2015), \u201cLviv\u2019s publishers Forum\u201d (Lviv, 2015).<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">After winning at the festival \u201cCivil projector\u201d (Nikolaev, 2015) Anzhela was selected for the most oldest Ukrainian film festival \u201cMolodist\u201d.<br \/>\nShe is also the curator of \u201cPoetry mail\u201d by the cultural project LITCENTR.<br \/>\nHer prose was published in books and anthologies, such as: \u201cEuromaidan. Chronicle of short stories\u201d,\u201cStanislavski phenomenon\u201d, \u201cGlass Time * Zeitglas\u201d, \u201cCrimea in ukrainian\u201d etc.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VDsqypQ7mak\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"399\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/148 - Celia Parra - Kneading language.jpg\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>Adondar a lingua <\/strong><br \/>\n(Kneading language)<\/font> <font size=\"1\">(2:32)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>Adondar a lingua <\/strong>(Kneading language) by Celia Parra<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; \u201cKneading language\u201d speaks about love for language and the emotional roots that connect us to it. It explores the role of family in transmitting affection for our culture and traditions.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>Celia Parra<\/strong> (Spain)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Celia Parra (Ourense, 1990) is a film producer and award- winning poet. She has worked for the main Galician film producer companies, and now is the executive co-producer of Versogramas, the first documentary about videopoetry, developed with Esferobite (now in financing process). She has been awarded in several poetry prizes, has written an individual poem collection (No berce das mareas, The craddle of tides) and counts with texts published in diverse collective publications. She is currently devoted to the experimentation of hybrid forms of poetry: digital poetry, videopoems and audiopoems.<\/font><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/195694294\" 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\">(47:13)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Sunday<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>16th October<\/strong><\/font> @ <font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>2.00pm<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Blacknight Festival Centre<\/strong>, Kino Cinema, Washington St. 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\/2016\/09\/009 - Paul Broderick - What the Waves Brought In.jpg\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>What The Waves Brought In<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(3:15)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>What The Waves Brought In<\/strong> by Jenene Ravesloot<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; The refugee crisis is a world issue. This poem and film highlights just a small part of it.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>Paul Broderick<\/strong> (USA)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><br \/>\n<\/font><font size=\"1\">Paul Broderick is an Irish filmmaker living in the USA. He has been making poetry films for over 2 years.<br \/>\n<\/font><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/200902600\" 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\/2016\/09\/027 - Marie Craven - Joining the Lotus Eaters.jpg\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>Joining the Lotus Eaters <\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(1:16)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>Joining the Lotus Eaters<\/strong> by Laura M Kaminski <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; Ghosts in the night garden.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>Marie Craven<\/strong> (Australia)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Marie Craven assembles short videos from poetry, music, voice and moving images by various artists around the world. Created via the internet, the pieces are collaborative in a way that belongs to the 21st century. Social networking and open media licensing are key to the process. Since 2014, Marie has put together many video poems, most often in association with The Poetry Storehouse and Pool creative group.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">She has also collaborated for several years as a vocalist with electronic musicians globally, also via the internet. During the 1990s and early 2000s she wrote and directed short narrative and experimental films that were screened and awarded widely at international film festivals. Her earliest involvement in media was in the mid-1980s with super 8 film-making in Melbourne.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/mariecraven\">http:\/\/vimeo.com\/mariecraven<\/a><\/font><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/109566869\" 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\/2016\/09\/044 - Eugenia Lindblat - Eclipse.jpg\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>Eclipse<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(5:59)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>Eclipse<\/strong> by Eugenia Lindblad<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211;  The main character of the poem is a fictional individual named Eclipse, in Arabic language <em>Al Kusuf<\/em>. <em>Al Kusuf<\/em> arrives in Sweden in the 80\u2019s at the age of nine after an incredible escape from the Moroccan Atlas mountain and a solo  journey  of  the  Mediterranean. During  a  short  stay  in  an  Italian  castle,  he  sees  on  its  interior  walls enigmatic letters revealing the secret of his past and showing him the way to safety to the Swedish coast. Eclipse belongs to a noble Moroccan Berber tribe, his father was the chief.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">&nbsp;<br \/>\nDirector: <strong>Eugenia Lindblad<\/strong> (Italy)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Eugenia Berti Lindblad was born in 1962 in Italy. She left Rome after completing a conventional history of classical studies, degree in law, leadership in public administration, and moved to Sweden where she started her cosmopolitan experience. A long stay in Turkey, UAE, UK, Scandinavia and the Mediterranean origins made her a &#8220;young&#8221; neophyte of the latest photographic generation, poetry filmmaking and photo-poetry writing. She published a photo-poetry book entitled <em>Words Trapped into Icons<\/em>, which is part of Orthogonal, a larger collection of poems.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">The film <em>Eclipse<\/em> is based on the same poem also known as <em>Eclipse<\/em> published in the book <em>Words trapped into icons<\/em>. Three of the poems from the collection <em>Orthogonal<\/em> will be published in December in the Encyclopedia of Contemporary poetry in Italy.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">She is the co-founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eclissi9.com\">Eclissi9<\/a><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fryksn6BBAs\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"399\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/048 - Corbin Louis - Saddle.jpg\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>SADDLE<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(3:54)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>SADDLE<\/strong> by Corbin Louis<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; Saddle is a spoken word animation created by Corbin Louis, Elan Wright, Seth From Above and Devin Ensz. The author faces mortality while striving to live on in the books and poems and hearts of all that came before him.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Directors: <strong>Corbin Louis<\/strong> and <strong>Devin Ensz<\/strong> (USA)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Corbin Louis is a poet and performer from Seattle Washington. He is a recording artist and MFA student at University of Washington Bothell. Corbin\u2019s work has previously been featured in Best American Experimental Writing, Clamor Magazine, Atticus Review, The Visible Verse Film Festival and others. The author seeks to extend stage performance through design mediums and visual rhythm. Ink becomes saliva and sweat. Salt water and whispers. The poet lives!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bQITCn0wOEE\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"399\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/068 - Diarmuid Fitzgerald - Thames Way.jpg\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>Thames Way<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(5:56)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>Thames Way<\/strong> by Diarmuid Fitzgerald<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; This is a photographic journey of the river Thames with poems<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Directors: <strong>Diarmuid Fitzgerald<\/strong> and <strong>Ciar\u00e1n \u00d3 Floinn<\/strong> (Ireland)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Diarmuid Fitzgerald was born in Ireland in 1977. He lived in Japan and England. He currently lives in Dublin. His first collection of haiku and tanka <i>Thames Way<\/i> was published in 2015 by Alba Publishing.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Ciar\u00e1n \u00d3 Floinn was born in Dublin in 1977. He studied music composition in Maynooth University. He has just recently completed his second film score for the independent documentary <i>Thou Art: Dublin<\/i>.<\/font><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/072 - Suzie Hannah - Known Unto God.jpg\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>Known Unto God<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(3:11)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>Known Unto God <\/strong> by Bill Manhire<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; Mud and and pigment animation interpreting New Zealander poet Bill Manhire&#8217;s poem about tragic death of youths in WW1, comprised of 14 short epitaphs for unknown NZ soldiers killed at the Somme, and for unnamed refugees drowning as they flee from wars now, 100 years later. Poem and animation commissioned for exhibition in &#8216;Fierce Light&#8217; for Norfolk and Norwich Festival, May 2016.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><em>\u201cKnown Unto God writes the epitaphs to the lost of our world: those fallen soldiers of the Somme whose bodies were never found; those refugees of today who drown seeking a better life for themselves and their families. Bill Manhire and Suzie Hanna have created a bold and powerful memorial to the voiceless, and a reminder that WW1 was a conflict that shook the entire world, and that our lives have grown ever more interconnected since.\u201d <\/em>&#8211; Sam Ruddock, WCN.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>Suzie Hanna<\/strong> (U.K.)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Professor Suzie Hanna is Chair of Animation Education at Norwich University of the Arts. She is an award-winning animator who collaborates with other academics and artists, and whose research interests include animation, poetry, puppetry and sound design.<\/font><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/173053863\" 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\/2016\/09\/073w035 - Anatoly Kuris - Baisan &amp; Buben - F5.jpg\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>Baisan and Buben &#8211; F5<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(2:26)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>F5<\/strong> by Ales Baisan Plotka<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; F5 video was made by Anatoly Kuris, known with his works for Saint Gooseberry band. The video shows the emotional state of loving creatures in a new world. Web world. World 2.0.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>Anatoly Kuris&nbsp;<\/strong> (Belarus)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Born and raised in Bierascie, Belarus, Anatoly Kuris is an illustrator and motion graphic artist living and working in Mos\u0441ow.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z90n3BHG7wM\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"399\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/080 - Sanna Larmola - Hellsgodmachine.jpg\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>Helvetinjumalankone<\/strong> (Hell&#8217;sgodmachine) <\/font> <font size=\"1\">(3:32)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>Helvetinjumalankone<\/strong> by Ville Hyt\u00f6nen<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; A young man has escaped his previous life and love in new surroundings. His past forms the lens through which he sees everything.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>Sanna Larmola<\/strong> (Estonia \/ Finland)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Sanna Larmola M.A. (b. 1975) is a Finnish filmmaker and photographer. She has graduated as BBA in business administration, BA in media and worked several years in administration and marketing in international companies, before she decided to concentrate in creative work by being a full time filmmaker and photographer.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">In 2010 she graduated as Master of Arts (M.A.) in film production and co-founded a small production company Into Production LLP (Manchester, UK) and made her living by doing documentary short films (f.e.x. to NHS), promotional films for organizations, music videos for local Mancunian bands in addition to fiction films, obviously. In 2014 she relocated herself in Tallinn, Estonia where she now continues her creative work. She co-runs a production company Tuotantoyhti\u00f6 K\u00e4enpes\u00e4 (established 12\/2014) together with her husband &amp; partner in arts Kivi Larmola.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gZvOwCtykUw\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"399\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/099 - Pamela Falkenberg and Jack Cochran - The Eternal Footman.jpg\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>The Eternal Footman <\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(0:53)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>The Eternal Footman <\/strong> by Jack Cochran<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; Inspired by a single Polaroid still and a short poem by Jack Cochran, and haunted by T.S. Eliot&#8217;s &#8220;The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, &#8220;The Eternal Footman&#8221; explores the space between callow youth and bitter experience, exemplified by an action figure whose only superpower is circling the drain.<\/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\">Pam Falkenberg is an independent filmmaker who received her PhD from the University of Iowa, where she directed the largest student film society in the US. She also ran film series for the Snite Museum of Art in South Bend, IN. Her experimental film with Dan Curry, Open Territory, received an individual filmmaker grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as grants from the Center for New Television and the Indiana Arts Council. OT was screened at numerous film festivals, including the AFI Video Festival, and was nominated for a regional Emmy. Her other films include museum installations, scholarly\/academic hybrid works shown at film conferences, and a documentary commissioned by the Peace Institute at the University of Notre Dame.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Jack Cochran is an independent filmmaker who has produced, directed, or shot a variety of ex-perimental and personal projects. He also works as a Director of Photography, with extensive experience shooting commercials, independent features, and documentaries. His features and documentaries have been shown at the Sundance, Raindance, Teluride, Tribeca, Edinburgh, Chicago, Houston, and Taos film Festivals, winning several honors. His commercials and documentaries have won Silver Lions from Cannes, a BAFTA (British Academy Award), Peabody Awards, and Cable Aces. Jack was trained at the University of Iowa Creative Writers Workshop as well as the University of Iowa film studies program. Some of his notable credits include Director of Photography on Brian Griffin&#8217;s Claustrofoamia, Cinematography for Antony Thomas\u2019 Tank Man, Director\/Cinematographer of vientonocturno, and Cinema-tographer of Ramin Niami\u2019s feature film Paris.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r8fFMAEpi7U  \" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"399\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/101 - Pamela Falkenberg and Jack Cochran - The Bloom.JPG\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>The Bloom<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(0:55)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>The Bloom<\/strong> by Jack Cochran<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; A single Polaroid still and a short poem written by Jack Cochran form the starting point for this experimental collage cin\u00e9poem essay about the memory of a lost love.<\/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\">As above, in <em>The Eternal Footman<\/em>.<\/font><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/131 - Manuel Vilarinho - Chamada Geral.jpg\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>Chamada Geral<\/strong> (Calling All)<\/font> <font size=\"1\">(3:21)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>Chamada Geral<\/strong> (Calling All) by M\u00e1rio Henrique Leiria<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; A man walking &#8230; in freedom.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>Manuel Vilarinho<\/strong> (Portugal)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Manuel Vilarinho works on TVI, Independent Television in Portugal , since 2001. He graduated in Tecnologia da Comunica\u00e7\u00e3o Audiovisual by IPP, Instituto Politecnico do Porto in 2004. He directed several video clips to the music band Fat Freddy during 2000 and 2003. In 2001 he won the FESTIVIDEO FILM FESTIVAL, the First Prize and  Public award on OVAR VIDEO FILM FESTIVAL, with the short cut, \u201cLADROES\u201d. In 2004 he won the TAKE ONE prize in International Video Festival of Vila de Conde, with,  \u201cAGUENTA, RAPAZ\u201d and in 2013 he won the \u00d3 BH\u00c9AL International Poetry-Film Competition with \u201cNo Pa\u00eds dos Sacanas\u201d. In 2016 he won the Festival Sil\u00eancio Poetry Film Festival award with \u201cChamada Geral\u201d .<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Since 2012 he has participated in several Video Poetry Film Festivals, like FESTIB\u00c9RICO &#8211; FESTIVAL DE CINEMA PORTUGU\u00caS E ESPANHOL, Holanda, BUDI &#8211; Busan Universiade for Digital Contents (Portuguese Programme), Korea, FEST &#8211; Festival de Cinema e V\u00eddeo Jovem de Espinho, Portugal, CAMINHOS DO CINEMA PORTUGU\u00caS XII, Portugal, MOSTRA DE CURTAS METRAGENS PORTUGUESAS &#8211; Videoteca de Lisboa, Portugal, 2\u00ba FESTIVAL DE CINEMA DA COVILH\u00c3, Portugal, Festival de Cinema, Video e DCine de Curitiba , Brazil, FANTASPORTO &#8211; Fest. Int. De Cinema Do Porto , Portugal, MARCH\u00c9 DU FILM  COURT  &#8211; CLERMONT-FERRAND , Fran\u00e7a, FESTIVIDEO, Portugal , OVAR V\u00cdDEO,Portugal  ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival, Alemanha, \u00d3 BH\u00c9AL  INTERNATIONAL POETRY-FILM COMPETITION,Irlanda, ROMA POETRY FILM FESTIVAL,It\u00e1lia,  THE BODY ELECTRIC POETRY FILM FESTIVAL,  EUA, MERIDIAN CZERNOWITZ  INTERNATIONAL POETRY FESTIVAL, Ucr\u00e2nia  CO-KISSER | POETRY-FILM FESTIVAL, EUA, FESTIVAL SIL\u00caNCIO  POETRY FILM FESTIVAL, Portugal.<\/font><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/116410398\" 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\/2016\/09\/132 - Pa\u0301draig Burke - A Demonstration.jpg\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>A Demonstration<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(1:57)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>A Demonstration<\/strong> by Jessica Traynor<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; Commissioned by the Irish Writers Centre as part of A Poet&#8217;s Rising for Ireland 2016,&nbsp;A Demonstration reflects on Kathleen Lynn, member of the Irish Citizen Army and chief medical officer during the 1916 Easter Rising, who was stationed in City Hall Dublin. Original music &#8216;Solasta&#8217;&nbsp;composed&nbsp;by Colm Mac Con Iomaire.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>P\u00e1draig Burke<\/strong> (Ireland)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Padraig Burke, originally from Kilbrittain in Co. Cork, has worked in television for many years, training with the BBC and working on various programmes for RTE and TG4. More recently he has worked with a number of poets including Dave Lordan, Nuala N\u00ed Dhomhnaill, Eile\u00e1n N\u00ed Chuillen\u00e1in, Theo Dorgan and Thomas McCarthy. P\u00e1draig also currently undertakes development work for the Irish Writers Centre in Dublin.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-rSnkDK8ETI  \" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"399\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/145 - Paul Bogaert and Jan Peeters - WHAT DOES THE SEA SAY.jpg\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>WAT ZEGT DE ZEE?<\/strong><br \/>\n(WHAT DOES THE SEA SAY?)<\/font> <font size=\"1\">(6:00)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>WAT ZEGT DE ZEE? <\/strong> by Paul Bogaert<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; A sea expert interprets the sea and convinces the audience. But the sea doesn\u2019t agree.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Directors: <strong>Jan Peeters<\/strong> &amp; <strong>Paul Bogaert<\/strong> (Belgium)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Visual artist and experimental filmmaker Jan Peeters (\u00b01978) lives and works in Ghent, Belgium. In his artistic practice, Jan Peeters currently focuses on so-called \u2018iconotextual\u2019 works: he merges words (and more precisely, texts that are set typographically) and moving images (with emphasis on filmic images) to form visual-textual unities of content, which cannot be categorised as either pure image or pure text. In these \u2018reading films\u2019 he brings together the languages of literature and visual art, without focussing necessarily on certain implicit elements of mainstream film, such as narration, acting or characters.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Jan Peeters has taken part with his works in exhibitions and festivals in Belgium and abroad. His poetry films were selected for the latest editions of some major international poetry film festivals, such as ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival (Berlin), Co-Kisser Poetry-Film Festival (Minneapolis), International Festival of Videopoetry by VideoBardo (Buenos Aires) and La Parola Immaginata by Trevigliopoesia (Italy). Today, he is co-ordinating the master courses and teaching at Sint-Lucas in Ghent (LUCA School of Arts). He is also one of the driving forces behind Art Cinema OFFoff, a Belgian cinema for experimental film, based in Ghent.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Paul Bogaert (\u00b01968) lives in Leuven and works in Brussels, Belgium.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">\u201cPaul Bogaert\u2019s debut collection of poems, WELCOME HYGIENE, was published in 1996. It features verses full of bizarre logic and a carefully measured mixture of styles and linguistic registers. His restless first person narrator is plagued with over-awareness; the way he analyses himself and others creates an alienating effect. The same rousing mental and physical sensations surface in his second volume Circulaire systemen (Circular systems, 2002). In this collection Bogaert examines his fascination for all things that rotate. A closed, circular system generates security, but also discomfort. In an aloof, pseudo-scientific tone he creates poetic language machines, in which the ordinary is contrasted with the systematic. In 2006, his third collection of poems, AUB (PLEASE), was published. In 2008 Paul Bogaert wrote the National Poetry Day essay Verwondingen (Injuries), in which he tries to explain the secrets of poetry by analyzing the Serbian contribution (2007) to the Eurovision Song Contest. De Slalom soft (the Slalom soft, 2009) is a long, sparkling, narrative poem, featuring a lifeguard in a subtropical swimming paradise, personal coaches, drowned bodies and office workers. Bogaert has proved himself one of the most striking voices among young Flemish poets. His latest collection \u2018Ons verlangen\u2019 (Our Longing) is \u201ca horrifying sample sheet of what humans do to each other.\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/358262533?h=ab54174cb1\" width=\"490\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"silver\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/152 - Urs Mader - We-are-the-ones-who-were-born.jpg\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=\"2\" color=\"green\"><strong>We are the ones who were born<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"1\">(4:38)<\/font><br \/>\n<font size=\"3\" color=\"red\"><\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Poem: <strong>We are the ones who were born <\/strong> by Katharina Mevissen<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> &#8211; To begin: Taking the past into your hands. To ask, what happened. Family. Despite the fear and the lack of words, despite the well-known silence. To begin: Listening, with both hands.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Director: <strong>Urs Mader<\/strong> (Germany)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Urs Mader studied in Austria and Finland. Since his graduation he has been working on projects in the field of design and visual com-munications, shifting his focus more onto film and photography in the recent past. He has received praise from cultural organisations for his innovative approach to film-making. Urs is currently stu-dying at the Masters Studio Culture and Identity at the University of the Arts Bremen and is working on a feature film project.<\/font><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><center><font size=\"1\"><b><font color=\"green\">Kino<\/font>, Washington St. Cork<\/b><\/font><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/aKino.jpg\" border=\"1\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/aKinomap.jpg\" border=\"1\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><\/font><font size=\"1\"><\/font><font size=\"1\"><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>16th October 2016 &nbsp; In partnership with the &nbsp;IndieCork Festival of Independent Film &amp; Music &nbsp; the 4th \u00d3 Bh\u00e9al Poetry-Film Competition The competition shortlist of 28 films will be screened in two parts, at the Blacknight Festival Centre, Kino Cinema on Washington St (see map beneath this programme). 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