Bello takes a mystery trip through the wood wide web and lands in a swamp - nature's water treatment plants.

https://futurechicken.com/

Directed by David Convery

Written by Vincent Lui

Cast: Aimée Ayotte

CONFESSION, 10min., USA
Directed by Paul Schwartz
A desperate man has just ten minutes to prove he is a winner.

http://www.nelsonavidon.com/

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-confession

Career Stall, 8min., USA
Directed by Nima Nourani
A businessman’s routine bathroom break tu...

A short film that reimagines the skies as a gallery of abstract forms, captured in motion through time-lapse.

http://www.projectaroid.com/

Director Biography - Roger Gallant
Roger Gallant is a filmmaker, animator, and composer from western Newfoundland, Canada. His work reflects a somber and tr...

HELADO is a short-film which reflects on how the choices we may or may not make are directly related to how truthful we are to ourselves. It does this through a clown exploration which alludes to our inner most honest feelings and emotions in contrast to our adult overthinking mind.

https://www....

Performed by Val Cole

https://youtu.be/rFTGSOFjVxY

Performed by Val Cole

Performed by Val Cole

https://youtu.be/__hH3S-FfAw

Performed by Val Cole

POEM:

I.

Eros walked slowly through the forestland,
Near Mount Olympus, in the soft twilight.
By his side, he held his bow in his hand,
As he walked on through the advancing night.
Above the forest, the evening was clear,
As a full moon lit ...

Performed by Val Cole

https://youtu.be/EW45EGodRds

Performed by Val Cole

POEM:

Slammed doors,
raised voices,
tears hitting the floor,
she’s faced with choices.

She sleeps alone
for the first time
in a long time
with a heavy heart.

Her own painful words echo in her head
and guilt consumes her.
What started the fig...

Performed by Val Cole

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POEM:

To the tune of Yesterday-With apologies to Paul McCartney

Yoga pants
I spend half my life in yoga pants
don’t do yoga, I don’t even dance
oh, I just live in yoga pants

Wintertime
cold outside but I don’t have to freeze
Used to garden in my dungarees
but yoga...

Performed by Val Cole

Performed by Val Cole

Salem Aftermath Sizzle, 2min., USA
Directed by Tom Phillips
The dialogue in this film clip is derived from the latest research and historical analysis of Ann Putnam. By incorporating newly discovered documents, human behavioral science, and AI, we have reconstructed what Ann likely would have sai...

Performed by Val Cole

Editor & Visual Design by Steve Rizzo

Produced by Matthew Toffolo

Get to know the poet:

What is the theme of your poem?
The theme of “The Beautiful Scar” is learning to find the beauty in the humanity we often rob ourselves of when we feel like the world is rejecting us....

In search of lost time, 7min., USA
Directed by Marta Renzi
A man and a woman inhabit the same surreal location though not, apparently, at the same time. Marta Renzi directs this black-and-white meditation on memory and absence, joined by long-time collaborators Charles Caster-Dudzick (camera), as...

Spelonk unfolds in a dystopian Cape Town in the year 2044, a world ravaged by climate collapse and social upheaval. At its heart is Dante, a disillusioned bounty hunter, grappling with the moral dilemmas of his task to hunt rebels fighting over scarce water supplies. His fateful encounter with Op...