Bauhaus Poetry Shorts
Working with the combination of lyrical texts and moving images, especially animation, has had a special place in teaching at Bauhaus University for several years. Lyrical texts encourage us to associate, experiment, leave things open, to juxtapose, to create atmospherically dense images.
In the programme we present poetry films that have been created in Weimar in recent years and introduce the Weimar poetryfilm scene.
Manglares
Animation: Lucia Schmidt
Text: Tomás González
Germany 2019, 02:00min
A poem by the Colombian author Tomás González takes us beyond civilization, to places that are only inhabited by frogs, birds and crickets.
Wer hat auf den Knopf gedrückt?
Animation & Text: Jakob Reiniger
Germany 2018, 00:43
Printed on celluloid
Quarantine
Direction: Martin Kolb
Text: Linnet Drury
Germany 2020, 0:42min
During the pandemic, eight students from the “poetry.film.werkstatt” course at the Bauhaus University in Weimar spent a week working on their own visual adaptation of the text “Quarantine” in an online workshop with the Dutch filmmaker Helmie Stil. The text was written by the young English poet Linnet Drury.
Quarantine
Animation: Anna Ryzhkova
Text: Linnet Drury
Germany 2020, 1:07min
During the pandemic, eight students from the “poetry.film.werkstatt” course at the Bauhaus University in Weimar spent a week working on their own visual adaptation of the text “Quarantine” in an online workshop with the Dutch filmmaker Helmie Stil. The text was written by the young English poet Linnet Drury.
Humuswerdung
Animation & Text: Paul Elia Zeißig
Germany 2:23min, 2021
Based on the poem of the same name, the short film Humuswerdung goes into the forest to find images for a melancholic feeling of contemplation and calm on the rough, adverse forest floor.
Bagatelle Teil 1
Animation: Rika Tarigan
Text: IOHA
Deutschland 2021, 3:07min
Leaving the hamster wheel in search of a feeling. Aimlessly bored in these harsh, sleepless hours. Once the emotions are gone and the screens die, you have to look for them outside the door.
heim (Was brauchst du?) Hommage an Frederike Mayröcker
Direction: Andrea Geyer
Text: Frederike Mayröcker
Germany 2022, 2:22min
“How great and how small you consider how short your life as a human being is…” (F. Mayröcker)
What do I need? And where can it be found? An essay about the small moments of eternity that shine in the sometimes seemingly overpowering mills of everyday life – carried by the poem “What do you need?” by the poet Friederike Mayröcker.
Leere im Kopf
Regie & Text Mia-Marie Henze
Germany 2023, 2:54min
A poetic film about the search for oneself, a new look at the past and the future, and the fear of losing oneself along the way.
Es ist kälter geworden
Animation & Text: Paul Elia Zeißig
Germany 2022
Elia reads from his grandparents’ letters. Frank has to do his military service in the GDR. He writes home every day. The young couple search for ways to cope with their longing and loneliness, but the time in the barracks remains lost time. When their grandmother dies, Frank and Elia look for new ways to deal with their longing.