April 25th Screening 1-5PM
Poem Based Films - 2026 Official Selection More categories coming soon. This is not screening order.
Screening At Beyond Baroque – Saturday, April 25
681 Venice Blvd, Venice, CA 90291
310-822-3006
An April Friday night 26th film festival of activities and special screenings at ,and produced by BeyondBaroque.org - Stay tuned for more info on the 25th.
All Official Selection of filmmakers and poets, a few crew may attend all events free of charge. Please send in your names to ivan@beyondbaroque.org BeyondBaroque, program manager.
More information and Official Selections in other categories coming soon.
Animation -- Season #5 2026
Time
An exploration of the illusory nature of Time.
VIncenzo Lodigiani, Evan Schiller Directors
Evan Schiller, Writer
USA
0:04:06
Limbed
Pushcart Prize winning Indian American poet Ravi Shankar performs his poem "Limbed"
Anjali Pulim, Director, Animator
Ravi Shankar, Writer,
Dhuruvit Singh, Producer
Ravi Shankar, Key Cast
Original Soundtrack, Nitin Mitta and Dhruvit Shah
Production, Lucky Recording Studio
USA
0:01:33
I Never Thought of Phoenixes
I Never Thought of Phoenixes
A reflection on fires.
Courtney Tanigucki, Director,
Yan Sham-Shackleton, Writer, Key Cast, "Narrator"
Ian Gottlieb, Music
USA
0:02:00
The Haunted Saxophone
Naked in the Desert with a Gun
I Never Thought of Phoenixes
This is an animated "graphic poem" with a supernatural theme.
Ron Campbell, Director
Katarina Fink, Director, Animator
Ron Campbell, Writer
Soar Feat Unlimited, Producer
0:06:42
Saddleback Street
Naked in the Desert with a Gun
Naked in the Desert with a Gun
Saddleback Street
Hunter Woelfle, Director
Dominic Hure, Writer
Hunter Woelfle, Producer
USA
0:01:30
Naked in the Desert with a Gun
Naked in the Desert with a Gun
Naked in the Desert with a Gun
Animated musical short based on the story of the flooding of St. Thomas NV, now submerged under Lake Mead.
Kate Oneal, Director, Writer, Animator
USA
0:04:59
09:01 Berkovich
The film is based on a speech by the Russian theater director Evgenia Berkovich. Together with the playwright Svetlana Petriychuk, Evgenia Berkovich has been under arrest and jailed since May 2023 on charges of "public calls to terrorism". On the ninth of January 2024, before the verdict was supposed to be announced, she read her final speech in verse.
Anya RyzhkovaDirector
Evgenia BerkovichText
Anastasiia Anisimova, Sound
- Anya Ryzhkova, Voice
Student
Germany
0:06:00
Arose
A woman wakes suddenly to a pain in her chest.
48 hour animated short film created alongside a Gothic-themed poem, "Atheroma Pantoum"
Piper Riley Kinion,
Director, Writer
Student
USA
0:00:39
1837:Cold Magic
1837:Cold Magic
This animated short brings to life M. Nzadi Keita's persona poem of the same title; the poem imagines the voice of a young laundress and future abolitionist, Anna Murray Douglass, who was Frederick Douglass's first wife.
Cabral Zimele-Keita, Director, Producer
Michelle Nzadi Keita, Writer
USA
0:01:39
Breathing
Breathing
1837:Cold Magic
A film-poem of a nine-part sequence, on the subject of relationships, pregnancy and loss. It uses minimal animation of shapes (mainly circles) to convey the emotion. The poem appears in the 2025 pamphlet "Breathing" (Arenig Press)
David Van-Cauter, Director, Writer
John Callaghan, Animation, Original Score
United Kingdom
0:10:00