HEAVENS APART, 15min., Canada
Directed by Steven Kumala
After serving time in prison for a crime that shattered her family, a mother returns to reconnect with her estranged daughter for the first time in fifteen years, only to realize that her daughter is on the verge of moving overseas to start ...

I dedicated my video to the camera and the body. I tried to tell my own story about a body trapped in chaos, silence, pain and helplessness. And about a camera that helped me free my body and find my authentic language.

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Directed by Andrejka Skračić

Cast: Vana...

It is about AREZOU(Rural girls with disabilities) and her family.....

Directed by Amirali Mirderikvand

Performed by Val Cole

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Della One Morning

Word Count: 695

Della’s spine eeked pain all up and down it as she walked to her car under Bonita Spring’s morning starlight. Della realized she no longer carried keys in her hands with keys pointing out between her knuckles, to prevent an attack. ...

Performed by Val Cole

Peformed by Val Cole

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the brushfire

if all the injuries were just words of smoke,
dawn could falter but still would come before
you’d have the timber from the fallen oak.

the sputter of the mourning land and folk
who cry and burn, lament and then deplore,
if all the injuries were just w...

Performed by Val Cole

Poetry reading performed by Val Cole

POEM:

Standing at the back of the cafe
With proud beard and
warm smile
The Gentleman finds me.

Striding over and
offering a hand
he is present and sturdy
with an openness to careful possibilities.

Interest worn with flair
like the dashing scarf
carefully draped around
his shoulders.

Eyes lik...

Performed by Val Cole

Poetry Performed by Val Cole
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Prelude to “Don Lost”

All maidens, far and fair—beware—
The sadist, Don John has appeared!
So, be woke, kids.
He approaches.

This pimp of prestige,
A truth-twisting tyrant,
The Baron of blackmail;
Democracy’s defilement.

Committer of incalculable
depravities....