Performed by Val Cole

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POEM:

There’s an aging letter in the drawer of my nightstand
It lays hiding in plain sight
On top of my grandma’s fake pearls
And papers that were lost on their way somewhere else
It doesn’t call out
Just plain white printer paper
And though I always know it’s ther...

Performed by Val Cole

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1. What is your novel about?

In the year 1816, volcanic eruptions cause the sky to be covered in ash and the world is sent into darkness. Emory is the personal attendant and secret lover of the consumptive Lord Ambrose Aphelion. Together, th...

Performed by Val Cole

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POEM:

I find myself attached to a woman in the most peculiar way. I love her, but she’s a fractal scar of a person. She’s been struck by life, but who hasn’t. There’s a quietness I love about her – sheepish to show me what she likes; what music makes her soul breathe...

Performed by Val Cole

Performed by Val Cole

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POEM:

Love is like sitting down at your favorite restaurant & eating your favorite meal
Just to walk away from the table with no left overs & wallet feeling smaller based on the bill

Love smells like your favorite desert on Christmas evening when all the presents hav...

Performed by Val Cole

Performed by Val Cole

Get to know the writer:

1. What is your novel about?
The Origin of Humanity: A Real Dream is a deeply spiritual and philosophical novel inspired by a vivid dream I had. It explores the mysterious beginnings of humanity through a cosmic journey of creation, identity, morta...

Peformed by Val Cole

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POEM:

There is that saying how can you love someone if you can’t love yourself?

Then again.
It has me thinking.
I love my family.
My friends.
Inanimate objects.
My creativity.

But at one point I was an afterthought
I spent a good part of my life.
Truly not loving me...

TRACES OF MEMORY, 14min,. USA
Directed by Jody Jaress
A woman's mind fractured, and what happens when she no longer can differentiate between her reality ... and the truth.

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THE MEMORY OF THE MOMENT, 60min., Romania
Directed by Ovidiu Georgescu
An 80 years old woman, former teacher, lives alone in an isolated village in Transilvania, located on a 1200m high mountain. She’s created an important space for books, music and poetry next to her assets and the animals that ...

Shucks, 50min,. USA
Directed by Ty Brueilly
A slow burning and silent eerie tale about escaping followed by personal transformations, addiction, programed human nature and the primal urges of evolved creature comforts through a macabre metaphorical manufacturing process. Written, Directed and Sco...

La Ghostification, USA, Musical
Directed by Lena Glikson
A surreal and symbolic journey through the inner world of a girl processing abandonment and emotional distress. Through haunting imagery — from mirrored selves red to threads like tears and disturbed dancing — the video explores the psychol...

PATIENT, 6min., Canada
Directed by Sofia Auza
A poetry video about living with chronic pain under the medical industrial complex

As Luna sees..., 5min, Australia
Directed by Zi Yin
Each individual will fills in their own way to fill the void created by death. I try to use the form of animation to tell the story of a girl saying her final goodbye to her kitten. With joy as a passing scene, smiling and waving goodbye.

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ICEBERG, 6min., France
Directed by Léo Poulain
A motivated young woman feels herself overwhelmed because of her work. Her life is reduced to a run against time, always bearing her problems with a smile, until all her frustrations blows up.

Home, 11min., Belgium
Directed by Hanne Schillemans, Ralph Timmermans
Home is a short film about the fragility of life and the virtue of solitude. A faceless figure attempting not to resist the endless waves of pointlessness.

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1.What motivated you to make this film?

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Survival: How Challenge Drives Growth, 13min., Australia
Directed by Timothy Laycock, Jesse Wallace
Six entrepreneurs heli-dropped into the wild with nothing but a pack and their will to endure. Five days of brutal terrain, hunting for food, and confronting their limits—physically and mentally. N...

The Floating Life | UNTAMED, 21min., China
Directed by Yuyang Cheng
This signifies a life voyage, profound and poetic in its silence, as a multimedia artist and director, Cheng combines contemporary dance and multimedia and installation including AI as her poetic language which explores bodies as...

ECHO OF SILENCE, 14min., Poland, Experimental
Directed by Mateusz Wawrzyniak, Patrycja Wasiak, Piotr Kuniewski
In a world where everyone is surrounded by many yet feels alone you struggle to stay afloat. Echo of Silence is a story about overcoming inner darkness and finding strength to stand agai...

Med Selkies, 11min., UK
Directed by Kelly Ann Buckley
Med Selkies is a poetic film exploring a near-future climate crisis where land is ravaged, and a lone human drifts at sea. Succumbing to the depths, the human encounters an ancestral, aquatic force - beings who once diverged from humanity to a...

inner necessity, 10min., USA, Experimental
Directed by Ethan Wagner
"The artist is not only justified in using any form necessary for their purposes, but it is [their] very duty to do so."