Same Different at 36. Stuttgarter Filmwinter Festival for Expanded Media 12.1.-15.1.2023

Special Filmprogramm

talents‘ encounters, Part 2: Akademie Schloss Solitude & Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, Ludwigsburg

Fri 13.1.23 16-17h

Short films presented by the Haus für Film und Medien

The association „Haus für Film und Medien Stuttgart e.V.“ (HFM) is a collective of currently 24 non-commercial institutions from the areas of education, academy, media education, art, research, science, film and media festivals, film and creative industry, and cinema, media and cross culture - all based in and around Stuttgart. Among these are our five academy members: Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, Hochschule der Medien (HdM) und Merz Akademie. For the second time, the Haus für Film und Medien presents a joint selection of varied works by young film and media creatives studying at one of these academies at the 36th Filmwinter Stuttgart. The aim of this institute, which is scheduled to be fully set-up by 2027 in Stuttgart's city centre, is to offer young talent in the fields of art and media opportunities to realize their own productions and introduce them to a wider audience. The series Talents' encounters will give the audience a foretaste of the broad range of young creatives.

Same Different in Greece, Denmark, Argentina and Brasil!

Our poetry shortfilm "Same Different” keeps travelling around the world. In the next months, the work will be screened at:

• 10th International Video Poetry Festival in Athens - 30th of September to the 1st of October 2022.

• 4th Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes Corporalidad Expandida in Buenos Aires - 13th to 17th of October.

• 15th Zózimo Bulbul Black Film Festival: Brazil, Africa, Caribbean and other diasporas - 18th to 24th of October in Brazil.

• Nature & Culture - Poetry Film Festival - 21st and 28th of November in Copenhague.
  

Poetry, Performance and Bow: Ques (Nesindano Namises) @xamques

Film: Maria Cecilia Reyes @xehreyes

Poster art by: Vitjitua Ndjiharine @vitjiart

Same Different @ International Poetry Film Festival of Thuringia

We are very happy to announce that our poetry shortfilm “Same Different” has been selected for the Special Program World Mirror of Poetry of the International Poetry Film Festival of Thuringia (Germany). The shortfilm will be available online during the days of the festival from May 20th to 31st.

““In our program „World mirror of poetry“ we are travelling around the globe in leaps and contradictions to capture a glimpse of the state of the world and its poetry.””

— Poetry Film Festival of Thuringia

Same Different at 10th International Video Poetry Festival

Same Different a poetry shortfilm produced by Nesindano Namises and me during our time at Akademie Schloss Solitude, was selected at the 10th International Video Poetry Festival.

The shortfilm features Nesindano “Ques” Namises, Namibian poet and performer, performing her poem “Same Different” in english and Khoekhoegowab.

My role was just to stand behind the camera and see Nesindano in her all-encompasing power reciting her poem in the forest while the movement of the sun thorugh the trees was changing her siluete. I cannot express with words how lucky I was to be there.

The International Video Poetry Festival in Athens attempts to create an open public space for the creative expression of all tendencies and streams of contemporary visual poetry. The IVPF has been around since 2012. It is one of the largest international platform for video poetry. Every year, it offers poets, film directors, video artists and festival makers from all over the world a platform for creative exchange, brainstorming and meeting with a broad audience. With poetry readings, live performances, concerts, retrospectives, exhibitions, performances, workshops and lectures present in various sections the diversity of the genre of video poetry and spoken word music.