Toss A Rose Over
Janelle VanderKelen
The green ones share stories of change in this travelogue from the vantage point of plants. In a canyon where all things move, these ancient beings urge humanity to reconsider acts of interspecies and intraspecies relation during a current period of anthropogenic climate change.
Seasons
Keefer Carteen
London poets bring the spirit of the 4 seasons to life through spoken word performances.
Jet Lag
Dustin Morrow
Using rotoscope animation and the stylized aesthetic of classical airline safety brochures, the short film “Jet Lag” adapts Christopher Schaberg’s acclaimed nonfiction book "Airportness: The Nature of Flight" for the screen.
Balancing on a Molecule (Dirt: Part Three)
David Finkelstein
A collage of poetic imagery, music, and invocatory language, the film follows two men in a series of esoteric experiments. Their words gives rise to desert landscapes, populated by sweat lodges, snakes, and an unusual game of tennis. A postmodern video opera, Balancing on a Molecule bathes the viewer in music, language, and visual spectacle.
Poets' Pier
Mara Miksch
The Poets’ Pier reveals the wonders of life on, around, and below the Olga Public Dock. Carolyn Cruso performs maritime poems by Pablo Neruda, Jack Spicer, Elizabeth Akers Allen, D.H. Lawrence, and William Wordsworth to underscore the timeless magic, fragility, and joy of life along the shores of the Salish Sea. Photogenic herons, perch, seagulls, crab, eagles, jellies, seals and people create an interspecies community that is both real and aspirational.
Wandering In Beauty
Nadia Bongo
Wandering in Beauty is a poetic short about a woman who wanders in Prospect Park while she, along with a few people and things encountered, speaks about beauty. Because it partly informs her ideas of beauty, the woman also confronts her past.