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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.