Experimental 2026
Experimental 2026
Welcome to Experimental 2026
A Loved One Goes By Me
A Loved One Goes By Me
0:08:10
USA
A video rendition of an original poem by Natasha Mijares
Natasha Mijares, Director, Poet
A Necessary Silence (Four Acts)
A Necessary Silence (Four Acts)
0:08:39
USA
Thomas Pickarsk, Director, Writer, Producer, Key Cast
This film is a specially constructed 9-minute conceptual excerpt designed to distill the core aesthetic and thematic concerns of the 2026 feature film, The Protocol of Peace, into a self-contained viewing experience.The Protocol of Peace is a 43-minute fine art conceptual narrative feature film investigating the moral layers and psychological complexities of systems designed to manage the suppression of truth
A Warrior's Farewell
A Warrior's Farewell
0:02:53
USA
Jesus Cortez, Director, Writer, Producer
Alexa G. Garcia, Key Cast
Diana Guevara, Key Cast
Vicente Cortez, Key Cast
Vicente Ascencio, Key Cast
William Sweningsen, Key Cast
Jonathan Guevara, Key Cast
The short film is a homage to those whose lives have been taken by the streets, and those who survived. This project is based on the poem, Anaheim Dreamin' by Jesus Cortez.
Jesus Cortez is writer, poet and photographer from West Anaheim, CA. His work is inspired by his own reality.
After the Dome Fire
After The Dome Fire
0:02:29
USA
Ruth Nolan, Director, Writer
Dennis Callici, Original Score
From the Chat Book, by Ruth Nolan
A short poetry book video trailer with original poetry and images by Ruth Nolan,
After the Funeral
After the Funeral
0:01:39
Germany
Anna Stern, Director, Writer, Producer
Robert Beck, Original Score
The visual poem combines associative, dream-like images with a text that tells the tale of three successive dreams. In these dreams, a dead person becomes increasingly alive to the point where the dream ego intervenes and expels him from the space of the living.
Back Door Man
Back Door Man
0:09:28
USA
Luis E Blackaller, Director, Producer
Johnny Payne, Writer
Bernardo Cubria, Key Cast,
Karen Sours Albisua, Key Cast
"Once again I crossed the line., says Director Blackaller, I’ve never done this before, to take the poems written by someone else and have them performed by actors whose only direction was “you’re a head floating in empty space, you’re Siri and you’re Chavela Vargas and you live inside my phone”.
Inspired by the poems, I dreamt of a virtual chorus of digital angels floating around me, but I summoned a spectral connection to the society of the spectacle instead. When I pulled out my phone and showed the videos to my friend he said: “this has no narrative purpose. It is purely lyrical”. I briefly experienced satisfaction."
Blood Hounds
Blood Hounds
0:03:10
UK
Janet Lees, Director
Michael Martin, Writer/Poet
Yehezkel Raz
A film based on the poem 'Blood Hounds', by Michael Martin, author of Extended Remark (2015), a runner-up for Poetry International's Cavafy Poetry Prize (2020), and winner of the 2024 Edgeworth Prize for Poetry. His work has appeared in The London Magazine, Denver Quarterly, and Poetry Ireland. He is also noted for his poetry films.
Janet Lees' art photography has been exhibited around the world and her poetry widely published in journals and anthologies. Her two books are 'House of water', a collection of poems and art photographs, and 'A bag of sky', the winning collection in the Frosted Fire Firsts prize hosted by the UK's Cheltenham Poetry Festival.
Crash Course on Numbers
Crash Course on Numbers
0:04:24
USA
Isabel Boutiette, Director, Poet, Producer
This is a Maya animation project with performance video and text installed, and a poem voice over. It's about the formation of identity alongside technology, and materializes communicative technology as a part of the body and built environment.
Isabel Boutiette is a poet and video artist based in Queens. She graduated from the University of Notre Dame with an MFA in Poetry, and during her time there taught poetry writing to incarcerated students at the Westville Correctional Facility. She is an editor at the NYC-based press Changes. Her work has appeared in the Brooklyn Rail, Tagvverk, and poetry.org.
Crossing Paths
Crossing Paths
Crossing Paths
0:04:37
UK
Rebecca Goldsmith, Director,
Writer, Producer,Music, Sound Design
On the border of England and Wales, two ancient pathways cross. Their stories over time are explored and reimagined in this place-based poetry film, taking inspiration from hauntology and folk horror. All images, writing, music and sound design have been created by a solo practitioner, as a contemplative response to place.
Rebecca Goldsmith is an award-winning poetry filmmaker, composer and producer based in the UK. She works across cinematic, interactive and immersive spaces of engagement, with a focus on experiential and non-linear forms. She has been selected for a BFI Immersive Writing Lab, a BFI In Development Producer Lab, and is in the final stages of an AHRC-funded PhD in poetry film with immersive technologies. Her work examines concepts of place, time and memory, and she is drawn to the eerie, the atmospheric, and the haunted.
Deadeye
Crossing Paths
Deadeye
0:07:10
Australia
Ian Gibbins, Director, Writer, Audio
"They used to place coins on the eyelids of the dead so they could not follow the lives of the living ... surrounded by ocean we find no clear water ... in the absence of fire our soft tissues are burning ... yet our eyes stay open ..."
Beginning in March 2025, large areas of South Australian coastal waters have been devastated by a harmful algal bloom, leading to mass mortalities of uncountable numbers of fish, invertebrates and other marine life. The causes are complex but all arise from the unmitigated effects of anthropogenic climate change.
This video has been made from images of fish that have been killed by the bloom and washed up on beaches along the eastern side of Gulf St Vincent. The audio was created from samples taken from videos of living fish, crabs and squid recorded at Seacliff beach, South Australia, in January - February 2025, before the bloom hit. The text is what the fish might say to us, if only they could.
Ian Gibbins is a widely published and exhibited poet, video artist and electronic musician living in South Australia. His award-winning video poetry, video art and audio art have been exhibited to acclaim at festivals, installations, galleries and public art displays around the world. Until he retired in 2014, Ian was an internationally recognised neuroscientist and Professor of Anatomy at Flinders University, South Australia.
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Duties of my Heart
Duties of my Heart
0:10:00
UK
Judy Lieff, Director,Producer-
Barbara Barg, writer
Terrylene Sacchetti, Key Cast
Deaf ASL poet Terrylene and dancers illuminate Barbara Barg's poem of resilience, “a revolutionary act in poet Barg’s world.”
Duties of My Heart is a hybrid short film that merges American Sign Language, contemporary dance, and poetry to tell a deeply personal story about expression, resilience, and the emotional weight of history. Drawing visual inspiration from the experimental dance films of the 1940s, the piece centers a Deaf protagonist whose inner world is revealed not through words, but through movement.
Designed for both Deaf and hearing audiences, the film incorporates layered sound design and voiceover without compromising ASL’s central role —one inviting audiences to see language differently.
Judy Lieff is a filmmaker and educator teaching at Montclair State University and SUNY Purchase. Deaf Jam, her first feature documentary, premiered on the PBS series, Independent Lens, and was selected to participate in the American Film Showcase (AFS) - a partnership between the Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and USC's School of Cinematic Arts. Most recently, Judy completed an MA degree in Immersive Media at NYU (New York University).
Esta Noche
Esta Noche
0:01:06
USA
Kelly Marie Martin, Director, Writer
An experimental video for a spoken word track "Interlude 06 (Esta Noche) from my solo album, "The Last Kind Word." The poem narrated by the director is about being young in San Francisco and is a tribute to now closed bar, Esta Noche. Moving your body, finding your way and your people in one of the most beautiful cities in the world.
It is an homage to time spent stomping around with the queers in San Francisco. RIP Esta Noche!
The poem from the spoken word -
Experimental
Ex Libris
Ex LIBRIS
0:01:11
USA
Nathaniel Lachenmeyer, Director, Writer, Producer
Ex Libris is a brief exploration of time and being through the prism of an old book purchased at a thrift store.
Nathaniel Lachenmeyer is an award-winning disabled author of books for children and adults. His first book, The Outsider, which takes as its subject his late father's struggles with schizophrenia and homelessness, was published by Broadway Books. His most recent book, an all-ages graphic novel called The Singing Rock & Other Brand-New Fairy Tales, was published by First Second/Macmillan. Nathaniel has forthcoming/recently published poems, stories and essays with The American Poetry Review, X-R-A-Y, Iron Horse, Midwest Quarterly, North Dakota Quarterly, Citron Review, Reed Magazine, Potomac Review, Epiphany, Permafrost, Berkeley Poetry Review, About Place Journal, and DIAGRAM. Nathaniel lives outside Atlanta with his family. www.NathanielLachenmeyer.com.
Gastromancy
Gastromancy
0:05:41
USA
Judy Lea Steele, Director, Writer
Wisteria Root Productions, NFP
Roberto Campos Segura, Director,
Jack Hartman Steele, Composer
Listen for gastromancy in this eerie exploration of one woman’s struggle with quickening anxiety and fear that bind both her inner and outer voices
This work is rooted in feminine earth. Discoveries are made; answers are illusory, always provoking questions. Speaking with dual and dichotomous voices, stories are told via written and shaped text, spoken word, vocalized sound, embodied performance and multimedia tools selected to fit the needs of the work. The duality and dichotomy of voice reflects the inner and outer personas women use to navigate, sometimes survive. Experimental and interdisciplinary, it interlaces storytelling forms of poetry, playwriting, performance and music.
Judy Lea Steele is an interdisciplinary writer, performer and producer. Her experimental plays, poems and performance art have been shared, recognized and published across the US including the Eugene O’Neill National Play Conference.
Through her non-profit, Wisteria Root Productions, she works with ongoing collaborators and project specific artists to create larger multi-media art and performance events amplifying women’s voices, especially over 50. Her play play Gerutha and Margaret will be featured in a new works festival in Mexico City, summer 2026. Her performance/play hybrid Bobo the Pig is Good and Bad (inspired by the book), is currently in production for fall 2026.
Roberto Campos Segura holds a degree in Cinematography (2019-2023) and has 9 years of experience in audiovisual media with over 13 film and audiovisual works produced. His
production company FIELDS PRODUCTIONS has enabled him to collaborate with high-level national and international artists, earning awards at festivals in Mexico, the U.S., Germany,
France, India, and Greece.
Haegtesse
Haegtesse
0:07:19
Austria
Eve Roth, Director, Writer
Kathy Simunek, Producer
This film explores the experience of femininity among FLINTA* individuals. Hægtesse first presents viewers with negative realities and experiences associated with womanhood and the accompanying feeling of helplessness. A transformation occurs as the performers manage to shed their negative connotations through rituals, making way for something new: freedom, autonomy, community, and strength.
INDIGESTION
Indigestion
0:00.44
USA
Alexis Krasilovsky, Writer, Director, Producer
A videopoem protesting rotten oranges.
Alexis Krasilovsky was born in Alaska, survived sexual assault at gunpoint, and has traveled to twenty countries. Her first film – “End of the Art World,” featuring Andy Warhol, Bob Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, was recently restored by a National Film Preservation Award to the Yale Film Archives.
After receiving an MFA at CalArts in Film/Video, Krasilovsky became an award-winning filmmaker and the author of "Great Adaptations: Screenwriting and Global Storytelling" (– 2nd Place Winner, 2019 International Writers Awards). Two of the films which she wrote and directed are global documentaries: "Let Them Eat Cake" (Kanopy.com and Amazon Video Prime – www.LetThemEatCakeFilm.com) and “Women Behind the Camera” (https://womenbehindthecamera.com) – winners of five Best Documentary Feature awards. Her recent pandemic poetry film, "The Parking Lot of Dreams” has screened in over a dozen festivals worldwide. It adapts poems from her book, "Watermelon Linguistics: New and Selected Poems" (published by Cyberwit – finalist, 2022 International Book Awards - and available on Amazon). She is also the author of "Women Behind the Camera" (Praeger/Greenwood) and co-author of "Shooting Women: Behind the Camera, Around the World" (Intellect Books UK/U Chicago Press).
Krasilovsky is a member of the Writers Guild of America West and the Yale Women Screenwriters Group, and lives in Los Angeles. And she likes to wear her hair purple. http://alexiskrasilovsky.com
Infertility in Planck Time
Infertility in Planck Time
0:04:16
USA
Sean McGuirk, Director, Producer
Sheila McMullin, Writer, Producer, Key Cast
Sean McGuirk, Producer
A love poem to potential futures lost to early pregnancy loss, rendered in stylistic retro-cinematic form.
Sean McGuirk is a video artist in Los Angeles, CA. Working with rare vintage video hardware from the '80s and '90s, he specializes in creating music videos, live concert visuals, short films, logo animations, and ads that utilize unique analog and early-digital effects.
Sean has directed, edited, and developed visual effects for many trend-setting artists, labels and brands, including Jenny Lewis, Redd Kross, Snooper, Pearl and the Oysters, Kontravoid, Drab Majesty, Boy Harsher, Shannon and the Clams, Pearl Charles, KCRW, Stones Throw Records, Third Man Records, Alien Body Clothing, and many others.
Juggling Betwee Wake and Sleep
Juggling Between Wake and Sleep
0:09:42
Belgium
Alexandra Manuella Van Laeken, Director, Writer
Marie Dom, Director, Writer
A free-association poetry film exploring restless moments between wake and sleep, where memory, dream, and daytime fantasy flow into one another, and time becomes the main character.
“Juggling Between Wake and Sleep” is a poetry film by Alexandra Van Laeken and Marie Dom. The film took shape in 2024, evolving from their widely performed stage piece of the same name, previously presented at numerous venues across Belgium.
Alexandra Van Laeken is a doctoral researcher in philosophy with the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO) at Ghent University and the University of Antwerp. She is also active in the literary and performing arts and is the founder of the art collective RuimteTuig.
Marie Dom studied theatre and film studies at the University of Antwerp. A true cinephile, she revisited the harp lessons of her youth for this film.
Knowing
Knowing
0:06:46
USA
Erika E. Wade, Director, Writer,
Tiffany Allen Harris, Assistant Director
Glenda Brown-Wade, Producer
Lily Huffman & Patrick Kirby, Directors of Photography
KNOWING features a poem created by Erika E. Wade during the summer, exploring personal themes of family, community, access to nature and more.
Erika E. Wade, a 33-year-old writer, producer, and actor from Birmingham, Alabama, has been a dynamic force in the entertainment industry, championing diversity. She made her debut as a teenager with the publication of her poetry book “eyestodewhurld.” Her performances have been showcased Off Broadway, in Los Angeles festivals, and in the Tampax #LiveRadiant campaign. Erika earned an MFA from Savannah College of Art and Design in 2016 and was a semi-finalist at The Kennedy Center MFA Playwrights Workshop.
Her production company, Glenda’s Baby Productions, is celebrated for its diversity programming. Back in Birmingham, Erika has launched various stage and screen projects and taught workshops in the Birmingham City School District. She is a Southeast EMMY award-winning voice actress and was selected for the inaugural Rideback Rise “The Circle” Cohort, aimed at bridging Hollywood’s equity gap. Erika’s goal is to bring her magical vision of Alabama to stage and screen.
Melanie
Melanie
0:04:00
Canada
Catherine Paquet, Director, Writer
Hugo Doré, Video and editing
Julien Baumier, Original Score .
Melanie is the result of the encounter between the poetry of Catherine Paquet, the video work of Hugo Doré and the sound universe of Julien Beaumier. A tribute poem video, Melanie sheds light on a life like there are so many in our streets. The places and movements reveal the omnipresent traces of a landscape woman. The project summons a duty of memory towards those who inhabit our daily lives and the emptiness that their disappearance entails.
My Mother Ceridwen
My Mother Ceridwen
0:01:52
USA
Eric Chapelle, Director, Editor, Original Score.Composer
Hélène Cardona, Director, Writer, Producer, Key Cast
A dreamlike meditation on motherhood, My Mother Ceridwen weaves mythic symbolism and personal memory to portray a mother as an eternal, regenerative force living at the threshold between darkness, light, and the self.
Ultimately, My Mother Ceridwen is an exploration of how mothers remain with us—not only as memory, but as an inner landscape that continues to shape who we are becoming.
My Mother Ceridwen emerged from a desire to give visual form to a poem that lives at the intersection of memory, myth, and inheritance. Rather than adapting the text, the film allows the poem to exist as itself—spoken, embodied, and expanded through image. Drawing on the figure of Ceridwen and recurring symbols of regeneration—the cauldron, the serpent, the egg—the film approaches motherhood as a mythic and interior force: one that survives loss, darkness, and transformation.
The mother in this work is not a character in a narrative but a presence—fragmented, luminous, and integrated within the self. The imagery follows dream logic rather than linear storytelling, inviting the viewer into a contemplative space where personal memory and archetype overlap. Collaboration was central to the process, with image, sound, and voice weaving together to create a visual poem that resists explanation and instead asks to be felt.
Eric Chapelle is a composer and producer whose work draws from experimental music and 20th-century classical traditions, resulting in a lyrical, impressionistic, and often minimalist sound. Born near Paris, France, he emigrated to the United States at age seven and has lived in California, Texas, and India, experiences that continue to inform his musical voice.
Chapelle holds a B.A. in Music with a concentration in composition from Texas State University, where he studied under Russell Riepe, a former student of Nadia Boulanger. His music has been featured in film and television, including the PBS documentary Texas: The State of Water, narrated by Walter Cronkite.
He has released multiple albums under his own labels, including Across the Water and Works for Solo Piano, and contributed to the Navona Records release Piano Spectrums (2022), performed by pianist Anna Kislitsyna. His compositions are recognized for their evocative atmospheres, emotional resonance, and cinematic sensitivity.
Hélène Cardona is a poet, filmmaker, and international actress whose work explores language, myth, identity, and memory.
Born in Paris and raised across Europe, she holds a Master’s in American Literature from the Sorbonne and has published several bilingual poetry collections, including Life in Suspension (Salmon Poetry), recognized for its visionary and dreamlike imagery.
Her creative practice bridges poetry and film, allowing text to live visually and sonically, as in My Mother Ceridwen, a poetic short that explores memory and regeneration through symbolic imagery. As an actor, she has appeared in international film and television, including Chocolat, Serendipity, and John Wick: Chapter 4. Her poetry has been widely anthologized and translated, and she has received over 20 literary honors.
Cardona’s artistic vision is driven by a belief in the transformative power of art and by a commitment to work that transcends borders, embracing the liminal spaces where cultures, emotions, and realities meet—with imagination, depth, and heart.
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Philophobia
Philophobia
0:01:52
USA
Tabyana Ali, Director, Writer, Producer, Key Cast
Maasatimbala Sanefer Milling Holly, Director
Jaheem Toombsm Original Score
Philophobia is an experimental short film about our fear of love. Using real historical footage alongside present-day images of conflict, protest, and everyday struggle, the film explores how generations of violence and division have shaped the way we connect with each other.
RE
RE
0:04:23
USA
Student
Kevin Jeehyuk Park Director, Writer, Producer
Mylo Lam, Writer, Producer, Key Cast
Eden Lederer, Producer, Key Cast
Seth Pillsbury, Original Score
"re-" is a poem-based short that captures the dizzying intimacies of a relationship's ending and two lovers' attempts to re-call, re-member, re-forget, re-convene, re-concile, and on & on.
Kevin Jeehyuk Park is a filmmaker and writer based in New York City. As one of 12 fellows in the Disney Launchpad program, he wrote the short film THE GHOST, which is now streaming on Disney+. Kevin also has over 10 years of experience working in educational media, creating classroom resources for PBS and Sesame Workshop. In his free time, he plays video games, reads, and learns animal trivia.
Seasons
Seasons
0:01:52
UK
Keefer Carteen, Director
Jerome Scott, Writer, Key Cast
Jayda David, Writer, Key Cast
Demii Walker, Writer, Key Cast
Rohan Samuel, Writer
Jayda David, Key Cast
Rohan Samuel, Key Cast
Chantal Richardson, Director of Photography
Isabel Woodings, Original Score
London poets bring the spirit of the 4 seasons to life through spoken word performances.
Keefer Carteen is a filmmaker and photographer based in Ocean Park Washington. Before graduating from MET Film School London for Practical Filmmaking, Keefer was the lead photographer for OC PRIDE in Santa Ana California. For two years, he documented LGBTQ+ stories through his photography and eventually became a Drag Performer in the process. His work with the OC PRIDE Parade earned him the President's Award for his support for the queer community in Orange County. Taking a break from photography, he went to London to study filmmaking. During this time he produced and directed several award winning shorts including On Air ( Best Director 2024 - 48 Hour Film Project) and In the Blackout (Best UK Short- Emerging Talent Film Festival).
Experimental 2026
Senses
Senses
0:04:36
USA
Adrean Mangiardi, Director, Producer
Mark Levin, Director, Writer, Key Cast
Mark Levin's poem "Senses" explores the idea that our perceptions and sensory experiences may not reflect reality as we believe. It questions the reliability of what we see, hear, and feel, suggesting that our understanding of the world is shaped by illusions or misconceptions. Through reflective and thought-provoking language, Levin challenges viewers to reconsider how they interpret their surroundings and the truth behind their senses.
Senses is a collaboration between poet Mark Levin and Adrean Mangiardi, a deaf filmmaker. Mark’s poetry expresses emotion through words; Adrean's goal was to visually interpret those emotions through movement of his hands, lights, and text.
"As a Deaf filmmaker, I see beyond sound, I focus on rhythm and imagery that allow viewers to feel the poem. Senses became an exploration of how language, identity, and perception merge, revealing that emotion can resonate just as powerfully through vision as through voice."
Adrean work bridges art, accessibility, and storytelling. With over twenty years in film and video production, he has built a reputation for creating visually striking, inclusive, and emotionally resonant projects that center authentic Deaf representation.
After losing his hearing, Adrean discovered a new way of experiencing the world, through vision, rhythm, and connection. This transformation inspired a series of deeply personal experimental films, including Paper Airplane, Equilibrium, and Deprivation/Stimulation, which explore identity, sound, and silence from his unique perspective as a cochlear implant user.
Driven by connection and innovation.
Snakebite Psalm
Snakebite Psalm
0:06:00
USA
JULIAN DELACRUZ, Writer
Manny Liotta, Director
A poet is plagued by schizophrenic voices that berate him for his sexuality and health.
Writer, Director, Actor, and Influencer Manny Liotta is known for creating his own highly stylized short films that push the boundaries of what can done within the medium alongside his popular influencer work on Tik-Tok under the name "MoviesWithManny". His acting roles in films such as "Babylon" (2022) and his own directorial work have gained attention worldwide. He is slated to direct his debut feature film in the coming year.
The Harbour
The Harbour
0:02:39
Australia
Daphne Keck, Director
Zarzokimi Moss, Writer, Producer, Key Cast
Kata Szász-Komlós, Original Score
A micro-short film directed by Daphne Keck, written and produced by Zarzokimi Moss.
The Harbour is a visual poetic film meditating on the words of Rachel Solnitt
“If you can look across the distance without wanting to close it up, if you can own your longing in the same way that you own the beauty of that blue that can never be possessed? For something of this longing will, like the blue of distance, only be relocated, not assuaged, by acquisition and arrival.”
in conjunction with a lover's fear of getting stuck in the middle of the harbour bridge in Eora/ Sydney.
The Simultaneity of Breathing
The Simultaneity of Breathing
0:04:14
Austria
Mersolis Schöne, Director, Producer
Thomas BallhausenWriter
Lisa Est, Producer
Apollina Smaragd, Voice
James Delaney, Voice
Lisa Est, Drawings and Newspaper Archive
Caminauta, Music and Composition
Mersolis Schöne, Concept, Camera, Editing
Raul Tizze, Sound Mixing
Caminauta, Original Score
Mersolis Schöne, states "In "The Simultaneity of Breathing" I was fascinated by the idea that film itself could become a living, breathing organism, a being that exists only within the delicate space between word and image, between silence and sound, in the moment of encounter."
Mersolis Schöne envisions experimental film production as a place of encounter where drawings and press photos by Austrian artist Lisa Est and Thomas Ballhausen's poetry come together in a shared philosophical experiment. Through the voices of Apollina Smaragd (German) and James Delaney (English), lines such as “words / that always keep us alive” lead us to the threshold of a semantic breath. The film itself takes shape as a living, poetic being that explores those fleeting moments when reality and possibility meet in the blur between breaths.
Mersolis Schöne is a Vienna-based German filmmaker, visual artist, and researcher. His work interweaves philosophy and experimental cinema to open poetic spaces of encounter between art, philosophy, and science. As founder of Moving Thought – Film+Philosophy (movingthought.org), he established a laboratory for philosophical film projects.
Tramas
Tramas
0:05:25
Argentina
Brenda Wagner, Director
Rodrigo Martin, Writer
Foster Niño, Producer
Martin Manini, Key Cast"Actor"
Rodrigo Martin, Original Score
Tramas is an experimental short film that fuses visual poetry and narrative to explore the deep cycles of existence. Based on the poems of Rodrigo Martín, the film follows the introspective journey of a single character who goes through creation, illness, madness, and rebirth.
Brenda Wagner is a young director who is taking her first steps in the audiovisual world. With only four video clips in her career, Brenda is here to present her short film based on the book "Tramas" by Rodrigo Martín.
In this project, Brenda has taken the liberty of interpreting the work in her own way, offering a personal and unique look at the emotions she experienced when reading it. Through his creative approach, he has managed to give life to a narrative that invites reflection and connection with the viewer.
Among her artistic influences, Brenda cites the cinema of Alberto Fischermann and Werner Herzog, as well as the iconic film "The Wings of Desire" by Win Wenders.
Under Chestnut Trees
Under Chestnut Trees
0:01:13
Ireland
Micheal Fitzgerald, Director, Producer
Paudrig Lee, Writer, Producer
Paudrig Lee, Key Cast
Paudrig Lee is primarily a poet from Killeagh village in East Cork, Ireland. He launched his second chapbook, Chance Meeting, in Midleton Books [2026]. Like Smoking Bees, his first chapbook [2024], this collection also reflects his interests as a local historian and photographer/artist, with poems presenting contrasting snapshots of intergenerational family dynamics, encounters with the natural world, and a focus on historical injustice.
What If You Fly?
What if You Fly?
0:012:12
USA
Kimolee Eryn, Director, Writer
Edwin Escobar, Director
Isaac Abakah, Director
Lynnette Johnson, Writer
Mikhail Buchanan, Writer
Roodley Merilo, Writer
Kimolee Eryn, Producer, Key Cast
Lynnette Johnson, Key Cast
Elliott Johnson, Key Cast
Sanaa Butler, Key Cast
Roodley Merilo, Key Cast
Calida Jones, Key Cast
Mikhail Buchanan, Key Cast
There's no genotype for genius—no gate to be kept for what's God-given. What If You Fly is an experimental short film fusing music, poetry, and dance from both young and seasoned artists against the backdrop of one of the oldest public art museums in the United States. What If You Fly celebrates the present and future of Black art in spaces where Black artists have often gone unacknowledged.
irector Biography - Kimolee Eryn,
Kimolee Eryn hails from Connecticut and is a multi-dimensional artist with a knack for wandering beyond borders to redefine “what is.” Her mission to live as fully as life will allow has led to an exploration of existence that converges intricately at the borders of heritage, experience, and faith. Kimolee is a spoken-word poet, visual artist, director and media producer who recently founded a media production company with the mission of elevating human-centered stories with an undertone of hope while simultaneously creating opportunities for youth with artistic interests and creative promise to receive mentorship.
Edwin Escobar is a self taught director and cinematographer based in Connecticut. He has been offering video production services to developing artists of all mediums and small businesses since 2009. Edwin has worked in over a dozen short films including 3 original award winning projects. Escobar’s passion for travel has been an asset in assisting and directing projects all over the country and the Caribbean.
withal our bodies we are
Withal our bodies we are
0:07:42
USA/Korea
Student
Yoonseo Lee,
Director, Writer
Sunghyun Park, Key Cast
withal our bodies we are is a work combining text and the moving image of body movements. In the text, the speaker feels awkward and nervous at a club and meets ’Jiwon‘, visiting different places and sharing communal movements and affect. Based on the senses emerging from the text - nervousness, self-consciousness, relaxedness, awkwardness, and etc. - Sunghyun who performed for this piece choreographed movements with me. In this work, Sunghyun presents texts that are printed in reverse on the mirror and performs movements that are sometimes related, not related, or maybe extended from the text. By putting text and movements together, we think about how our bodies move and what it is about to move together with others.
Yoonseo Lee is born and raised in South Korea and studies film and video at California Institute of the Arts. Through experimental cinema, her works focus on the boundary between the dream world and reality and building alternative reality to capture mortal moments. Lots of her works are based on the poetries, and still writes them
You Are Beside Yourself
You Are Beside Yourself
You Are Beside Yourself
0:04:46
USA
Steven Serna, Director
Vanessa Butterworth-Serna, Writer
Steven Serna, Producer
Vanessa Butterworth-Serna, Key Cast
You Are Beside Yourself, is the writer's first short film -- it looks at that uneasy space between being self-sufficient and feeling alone in life. Through quiet, lived-in moments and a steady forward momentum, the film sits with the question of how we learn to be okay with ourselves even when we’re not okay in life.
Steven Serna is a videographer, video editor, colorist, graphic and web designer, musician, artist, and filmmaker living in Canada. He studied graphic design in college and has worked in multimedia studios and as a freelancer, moving between client work and more personal, exploratory projects.