Lyrical Visions VII

An Evening of Films from the Aotearoa Poetry Film Festivals 2023-4
Introduced by the Festival Directors, Alfio Leotta and Tyler Tesolin

Programme

Red Buckets 3:51 - Patrick Moser, USA
An experimental animated reflection on a failed attempt to clean fish as a privileged child on the southern coast.

Ara, Made of Stardust 5:07 - Sofie Dieu, Australia
Ara, Made of Stardust is a short film commissioned by Michael Sollis for the Griffin Ensemble that explores how the lack of dreaming impacts our connection to our environment, leading to devastating effects.

SONNET 4:44 - Jan Peeters, Paul Bogaert, Belgium
How useful is good advice if you’re too stressed to focus? Can a couple of rhymes prevent one from falling?

The sound soil makes 3:10 - Christopher Thompson, Hannah Van Seventer, Aotearoa New Zealand
A shadow figure appears and fades as forms are etched over other and in words.

Waves of ghosts 3:34 - Jack Nicol, Andy Day, Dominic Hoey, Aotearoa New Zealand
Poet Dominic Hoey performs a memoir on the West Auckland of his youth, shot on 16mm and produced by Studio Butter.

Shades of Gray 2:57 - Lyon Pol, Netherlands
Shades of Gray is a short poetry film that explores the complex experience of being mixed race in a white-dominated society.

SENSIBLE 7:00 - Axel Chemin, France
In the heart of emptiness, as well as in the heart of man, there are fires that burn.” SENSIBLE invites us to experience, through dance and the works of Yves Klein, a sensory and hypnotic journey.

The distance between the staircase and the sky 7:00 - Katerina Athanasopoulou, UK
On a planet lit by neon and on a beach powered by cicadas, we twirl into a void measured by walking - one step at a time.

La vie en rouze 4:10 - Elle Kunnos de Voss, USA
A lonely peacock is trapped in the looping memory of vapid nights - while he craves for meaningful solitude.

Hymns of a tiny world 4:46 - Izabella Itzia Anguiano-Jacobs, USA
Come spend a day with the birds of New Zealand! See their daily mischief and hear their wonderful song.

Supernova 3:59 - Flora Xie, Aotearoa New Zealand
A figure in a snow-globe; a girl in a mask; a speaker on the verge of collapse; the possibility of a new beginning; a short-lived but brilliant death.

Whirlflow 4:48 - Kathleen Mantrel, Aotearoa New Zealand
Poet Amber Esau performs a surreal and hallucinogenic exploration of Waitākere Ranges in West Auckland

Canto LXXII 2:53 Alfio Leotta - Aotearoa New Zealand
Canto LXXII is a low-fi, ironic animated adaptation of the eponymous poem by Ezra Pound. In Canto LXXII Pound evokes the ghost of the leader of the Italian futurists, Tommaso Marinetti, who had been killed during the final year of World War II.

Trilogy of Desire 23:19 Tyler Tesolin - Aotearoa New Zealand
Trilogy of Desire follows a creative descent from the realm of the Magical Superego to the realm of the Animal and the Id. The Magician's Garden explores a potentially malevolent side of the creative act. Giacomo reckons with a very human desire. This desire is one tethered to the ego. Finally, Vesna Sonata explores the base deployment of desire, which at its core relates to the animal need for eating and procreating.

A Thousand Voices 14:00 – Martin Sercombe, Paris Whitehead, Paul McLaney - Aotearoa New Zealand
A meditative journey through six South Island landscapes, capturing the subtle drama of wind, light and water in constant dialogue with the land. Paris Whitehead’s spoken text introduces unseen protagonists engaged in dreamlike encounters with each new location. Paul McLaney’s immersive soundscape complements the rhythms of rustling reeds, birdsong and flowing water.