still february

Animation: Anya Ryzhkova

A wolf-like figure awakens in a world threatened by fire and decay. It senses that everything around it is disappearing, without understanding why—almost blind,
unable to see the obvious. But then it begins to see the truth: huge, destructive feet trample through the world, setting everything on fire, dragging the past and the future alike into darkness.
In the end, there is only one thing left for it to do: save itself.

Heroes Say | Poetry Clip

Direction, Camera, Editing: Sandra Reyes, Milad Rezaei

Text & Voice-over: Christian Rosenau

Christian Rosenau, born in Weimar, currently lives and works in Coburg as a freelance writer, musician, and music educator. He has received numerous awards for his literary work. His most recent collection of poems, *Nadelstich und Schlangensprache*, was published in 2018.

Sanctus | Poetry Clip

Direction, Camera, Editing: Sandra Reyes, Milad Rezaei

Text & Voice-over: Christine Hansmann

säe see | Poetry Clip

Direction, Camera, Editing: Sandra Reyes, Milad Rezaei

Text & Voice-over: Paula Jänig

Paula Jänig, born in 2003, is studying at the Bauhaus University Weimar and the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena in the fields of fine arts, art education, media philosophy, and Latin; she seeks to capture phenomena of the living world, structures, and movements in a moment of stillness, of the present, using lines, writing, and words; she dances ballet; writes poetry and journalism; hosts and curates her own readings.

Versenkung | Poetry Clip

Direction, Camera, Editing: Sandra Reyes, Milad Rezaei

Text & Voice-over: Daniela Danz

Daniela Danz, born in Eisenach in 1976, studied art history and German language and literature, and wrote her doctoral thesis on the architecture of hospital chapels. She subsequently served as a museum director and as Vice-President of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz. She teaches at the University of Bamberg and heads a German government project aimed at promoting democracy. Her body of work includes poetry, novels, essays and libretti.

Dreißigjährig / A Los 30 años | Poetry Clip

Direction, Camera, Editing: Sandra Reyes, Milad Rezaei

Text & Voice-over: Ramona de Jesús

Ramona de Jesús, born in Colombia in 1990, is a poet, essayist, and translator. She has received several awards and grants. Her literary debut, *Dos metros cuadrados de piel*, was awarded the National Prize for Unpublished Poetry in Colombia and will be published in German translation by Wallstein-Verlag in September. She is currently a fellow at the Akademie Schloss Solitude.

The Aleph

Direction, Camera, Editing: Sandra Reyes, Milad Rezaei

“The Aleph” is the seventh episode of the “Long Story Short” series—a project by Thüringer Lese-Zeichen e.V.
Jorge Luis Borges, the blind librarian of world literature, was repeatedly unlucky in love. His most famous story combines the melancholy of a lost love with a mystical experience. In a basement in Buenos Aires, his alter ego discovers the Aleph: a point in space that contains all the places in the world. In the presence of the Aleph, he not only experiences the infinite, but must also confront the nature of memory and transience.

The Filmmakers

Serie Poetry Clips | Literarische Gesellschaft Thüringen

Sandra Reyes is a filmmaker born and raised in Colombia. She worked in sound design for films for most of her career, until she discovered her fascination with analogue animation. A few years ago, she started exploring poetry films, contributing to productions such as Cadaver Exquisito, a film created in collaboration with writer Thomas Empl; El canto de las moscas, an animated film based on the poetry collection by María Mercedes Carranza and directed by Ana María Vallejo; and Weisse Wildnis, a long poem by Daniela Danz.

Milad Rezaei is an artist, educator and poet. Through his art, he strives to establish pathways, spaces of belonging, and situations of compassion, fostering a sense of unity within the evolving global landscape. Fascinated by the writings of the Iranian religious founder Bahá’u’lláh (1817–1892), he is currently translating his mystical writings into the language of art, building a bridge between these worlds.