Performed by Val Cole

POEM:

They put their finger to your lips
And say it isn’t what it is
As the journalist just wins a prize
And the candidate is making speeches
As the military reaches
The borders of the other side
History turns the corner
The stories have grown taller
And our memories are ...

Performed by Val Cole

POEM:

There are places beyond man’s illumination
when the campfire is embers and ashes,
when phones and flashlights rest in batteries,
when the moon has sunk or not yet risen,
when satellites and planes are delinquent.
In those rare, dark interludes one sees
the omniprese...

Peformed by Val Cole

POEM:

First off I would like to say how wonderful it has been these many months. Although we are embroiled in a war, this group’s commitment never wavered. That is why here, today, we stand on the precipice of a truly extraordinary breakthrough.

Gentleman, we know the tas...

Performed by Val Cole

POEM:

Ripping off a bandaid doesn’t paint the right picture. It’s more like taking a couple of perfectly unique pages from two completely different books – maybe one an intellectual mystery, and the other a soulful romance – and expending an entire hot glue stick binding ...

Performed by Val Cole

POEM:

Inpatient Hospice

You inhabit me; you narrow to flanks.
Your spineless nerves sear my ventricles.
The creative will will snap your cheekbone—
hush, soil, remains.
Look at the blank between us
squeezing my shoulders.

I breathed through your infamy
at graduation,
mi...

Performed by Val Cole

POEM:

God took a wand
Dipped it into the life-giving liquid
And breathed this foam into
A giant bubble.
Surface tension growing and stretching
Clusters of bubbles forming within.
Stochastic processes
Vacuum fluctuations
Or genius planning?
It swelled and stretched
And und...

Performed by Val Cole

POEM:

You know… I believe we, as a collective, and as individuals forming that collective, should let injustice consume us just enough for us to care, just enough to feel a sense of fucking rage. Rage gets shit done. If everyone believed in not letting injustice’s consump...

Performed by Val Cole

POEM:

We sat so still no one knew that I was beginning to come unglued
I thought I should reach down to tie her shoe
I stole a kiss from her cheek she caught a teardrop sipped a drink
It froze in a place until she let her hair down
We view the flowers growing outside each...

Performed by Val Cole

POEM:

I. Prairie Roots

Vast sky above, blue;
sea all around, green
waves of grass under wind,
the grown man stood
thinking of decades gone
when he was young
and another man who
stood here too.
Both linked by more
than one can say:
love and genes;
one paved the way
for ge...

Poem by Val Cole

POEM:

They say,
I should have been stronger —
like bones aren’t meant to break
under the weight of a stranger’s hands.

Like I wasn’t already fighting to hold on
while he took pieces of me,
one by one,
until the mirror became a place
I could no longer stand to look.

They say,...

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THE AMAZING JOURNEY OF JACOB A. RIIS, 3min., Denmark
Directed by Marcus Mandal
A very short film about the legendary Danish-American Jacob A. Riis who was one of the 19th century’s most innovative journalists and the father of modern documentary photography.

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FIRST & LAST, 4min., Canada
Directed by Alexander Nonaka Galant
At a showing of a rental apartment, a young woman stumbles upon a gruesome mystery while taking pictures with her phone.

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YOU ARE SPECIAL, 18min., Ukraine
Directed by Ilya Noyabrev
A little boy, fascinated by the legend that the white keys on the old Steinway piano, which "lives" in his parents' house, are made of elephant tusks, dreams every night of meeting the gray giants one day and never being separated from th...

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DEATH IN LAVENDER, 10min., USA
Directed by Tyler W. Moore
Secrets begin to unravel after the untimely passing of the patriarch of the Pennington family.

THE LESSON, 11min,. USA
Directed by Lindy Hudis
The tables are turned when a neurotic and abusive homeowner lea...

AN ADVERT FOR ONE NIGHT, 15min,. UK
Directed by Graham Birch
Lisa responds to a newspaper advert to meet Sarah in a hotel room for a night. They meet and have a wonderful night that sadly uncovers that one was badly abused and the other is currently suffering serious mental and physical bullying ...

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CRAVE, 5min., UK
Directed by Lois Norman
Late at night, her bed still warm from her lover leaving, a painter dips her brush into her own imperfect past & parts of her: a lost truth drips through...

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WAKING CONUNDRUM, 11min., Canada
Directed by Dale Loon, Alyssa-Rose Hunter
Waking up in a room with a ceiling that seems to never end. A man struggles with his memory of recent events but remembers everything else from the past. The man meets a woman and brings him...

THE MULTIDIMENSIONALS, 90min., USA
Directed by Ewa Pirog-Rojas
"The Multidimensionals" tells the beginnings of STAR ENVOY, an unacknowledged Defense Intelligence Agency Operations Group assigned to protect US interests among the galactic community via specialized "ambassadors" whom are alien hybr...

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PERFORMING LAND, 24min., France
Directed by Marielle Gonier
Performing Land aims to bear witness to a human experience, deeply nourished and influenced by the energy of Nature. Through processes of exploration and experimentation, the performer will be taken on a s...

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DOLLARS THAT MAKE SENSE, 3min., USA
Directed by Richard Power Hoffmann
A fun, stop-motion animated film about how foundations need to align their endowments with their missions.

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REVERB, 4min,. South Korea
Directed by Jusin Kim
In a distant future where humanity has vanished, a lone robot explores the ruins of a desolate city. On the surface, the city appears completely abandoned, but the robot detects a faint reverb—an echo of time itself. This reverb, a memory of the sp...

STEEL MOTHER, 16min., USA
Directed by Nik Kacevski
In a gritty underworld, Olivia transforms from a vulnerable stripper into an invincible force of maternal fury, dismantling the corrosive empire that once entrapped her to secure a better future for her unborn child.

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THE FATHER, 12min., UK
Directed by Doug Rollins
After 18 years, an estranged father returns to Wales to confront the sudden death of his son. Reuniting with his ex-partner, they grapple with a shocking discovery that challenges their past and present.

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BOTTOM-FEEDER, 14min., USA
Directed by Brandon D. Hill
A reformed criminal must confront the demons of his past to save his estranged daughter from old sins and prove his innocence.

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