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- When two adolescent boys become aware of their budding sexuality they uncover the pain and longing of the human heart. Illustration of a poem by Peter LaBerge.
- The children in Diego Vazquez Lozano and Statten Roeg's adaptation of Michalle Gould's "How Not to Need Resurrection" are the first resurrectionists: They hold their breath, and cross their arms, and shut their eyes; then rise from their nest of pillows and play instead at being lost or married, as if they could climb without a ladder into the heavens, then drop back down.
- For weeks, she breathes his body. In Nicole McDonald's adaptation of Jehanne Dubrow's "The Long Deployment," you can smell anise, the musk that we secrete with longing, a trace of bitter incense paired with something sweet.
- Scott Wenner's tense dream-time remake of David Lehman's "French Movie."
- Let John Koethe and Rob Perez take you on a memory trip. Remember Sputnik and piano lessons? Bongo drums and beatniks?
- This motion poem chronicles the feelings of a Sudanese American poet who has grown up straddling two worlds. Seen as a foreigner in her birth land and in her homeland, she longs to find a place she truly belongs. In the ocean the waves are the same for everyone. And surfing is the place that she and her friends feel accepted, powerful and free.
- Lady Liberty explored in all her aspects.
- Can't hear a voice in this poem? John Eickholt deftly uses only a quiet, intimate music to underscore Jane Hirshfield's meditation on hearing loss.
- The film adaptation of this poem by Albert Goldbarth shines an inquisitive camera on everyday moments and people, revealing the hidden interconnectedness of ordinary happenings and excavating the mummified thoughts and aspirations of the seemingly everyday man and woman. By placing the ugly next to the beautiful and the whimsical next to the discomforting, new perspective is gained and a moment's internal architecture dissected to the point where a gasp is confused with a laugh and emotions rewired.
- A meditation on longing, distance, and the General Theory of Relativity.
- A biracial woman performs a poem about her experiences in the American South.
- 83-year-old Pulitzer winning poet W.S. Merwin himself agreed to lay this track down over sculptor Evan Holm's amazing installation of a turntable submerged in a pool of ink.
- Some years ago, two young parents abandoned their child in a Michigan woods. Poet Laura Kasischke wonders: "Did they sleep that night?" Filmmaker Laurent Barthelemy and dancer Shizuka Kusayanagi take her hand.
- Filmmaker Faith Eskola's five-year-old daughter gives voice to this poem by 90-year-old Pulitzer Prize winning poet Richard Wilbur.
- A cinematic adaptation of Circe Maia's poem "Treason."
- A man reflects on the relationship between fantasy and reality in this animated short. Accompanied by Stephen Dunn reading his poem 'The Imagined,' with a score by Bryan Hanna.
- By layering transparent and translucent images, animator Emma Burghardt enlightens this elemental post-apocalyptic poem by K. A. Hays.
- As lamps are lit and Vs of geese sweep past, summer widens its lens on Angela and Ithyle's warm rendering of Meghan O'Rourke's "Once."
- "I wonder if Kanye knows that these girls are experimenting. As with rum. As with skin, all the ways to touch it." Ayse Altinok's adaptation of Sarah Blake's poem begins with a craving.
- When filmmaker Sam Hoolihan fell for poet Sean Hill's "Postcard to My Third Crush Today," nobody was safe.
- Historical fragments are found everywhere, just as illustrated in this lovely animated poem. It is the animation work of Pablo Delcan and Brian Rea. The two minute video, Historical Fragment was written by Eireann Lorsung and included in her book of poetry entitled Her book (real name, no kidding) from Milkweed Editions. With story credits by Pablo Delcan and Brian Rea (who also has drawing credits), this animation is a lovely story about finding cards; or that lucky charm and historical fragment which ignites wonder.
- Filmed partly in the Pulitzer Prize winning poet's New York apartment, Juan Delcan's film blends animation and live-action footage, in the last months before Mark Strand moved to Spain.
- "The old clearness" leaps from Jane Hirshfield's haiku-like poem into this motionpoem by Scott Olson and Jeff Saunders.
- Stylized illustrations, calligraphy and overlapping paper textures create a dream-like world. Based on the poem 'Sea Salt' by David Mason
- Amy Schmitt's film, based on the poem 'When at a Certain Party in NYC' by Erin Belieu, utilizes a flat illustrated style with plenty of movement to add life to a 2D world. Transitioning through different scenes of New York, the piece follows the journey of the female protagonist through colorful illustrations, punctuated by the dry sarcastic tone of the male voiceover, provided by motion504 Founder Andy Reynolds. 'I've always had my eye on this poem and was drawn to the idea of a beat poet,' explains Schmitt. 'I wanted the pace to be fast and to flow into a stream of consciousness. Andy's read really lends some hardness to this film, contrasting the female character with the cynical undertone of the poem itself.'
- This short goes into the San Gabriel Mountains for this re-imagined poem-within-a-poem inspired by Caravaggio's "Narcissus."
- Where will you be when your spirit guide comes looking for Keith Moon? This short follows Lucas, marooned 50 miles from Moab.
- Seeing beauty in vultures, poet Bob Hicok and filmmaker Keri Moller circle back to the living in this quiet, tenderly wrought motion poem.