visual poetry

For Hire! Bangalore Rickshaw by Xaver Xylophon

"Green, yellow, black. They are the blood in the veins of Bangalore: the 450.000 rickshaws and their drivers. Knocked together from bits and pieces, decorated, ready for the junk heap or carefully maintained like antique cars, the vehicles are as charismatic as their owners, who brave the monstrous traffic of this metropolis daringly, sleepy, chattering or stoic, making sure the passanger's trip from A to B will be full of memorable experiences.
Based on days of riding around in rickshaws and drawings made locally, this animation captures the tough workaday life of a rickshaw driver, seen through the eyes of a European visitor."

Rêves de brume / The Mist Is Coming In by Sophie Racine

"A man leaves the urban chaos for the silence of a mountain. He reaches a hut, only to find fog has enveloped the mountain, leaving nothing but white surroundings. He stops."

情殺案 Crime of Passion by Min Liu

"This animation is a visual interpretation of a poem, 'Crime of Passion' written by a Taiwanese poet, Hsia Yu.

This animation is a visual interpretation of a poem, "Crime of Passion" written by a Taiwanese poet, Hsia Yu. It is selected from her 1984 poetry collection, Beiwanglu, Memoranda. She reveals her emotions of love and sadness intertwined with one another and connects them with abstractions and metaphors. It expresses the preemptive feelings and desire for love regardless of reality. With the artist's way of interpretation, the poem transforms and alters its original forms. The artist wishes to present the poem in a different aesthetics from words to images."

HELLO ANTENNA by Susie Asado (music) and Samo-Sama (Anna Bergmann + Veronika Samartseva, animation + direction)

Interlude by Katie Armstrong

Wandernd Haus voll Vogelwasser by Veronika Samartseva
Sound: Michal Krajczok, Music: Marian Mentrup

Balades by Sophie Racine

"Some wandering..."