Afterimages

Poems by some of the greatest writers of all time are brought to life through lyrical animation and readings by some of today’s most respected performers.

Ego Sum Petrus

La vita nuova

Un spectacle interrompu

Loose impressionistic brushstrokes sketch a series of portraits of two faces, one male and one female, while the verse on the soundtrack tells the tale of both one and a thousand relationships.

A young shepherdess and a chimneysweep plan to get married and escape the clutches of a tyrannical king in love with her, assisted by the guile of a cheeky mockingbird, the king's archenemy.

Rubén tries to describe the color blue as "The color of dreams, of art, of the ocean and of the firmament", thereby unleashing half a century of poetry.

A spring night is a poetic film which is based on the motives of the poem by V. Lugovsky. The film is devoted to the theme of fidelity to the battle traditions of revolutionary past, to the theme of human happiness the sense of it in the battle for high ideals.

This animated short is a visual representation of Goethe's poem, The ErlKing that uses sand-on-glass animation set to the music of Franz Schubert. The moving images, resembling woodcuts, capture the haunting, nightmarish quality of the tale of the ErlKing who steals and kills a little boy.

A narrative poem brought to life and an ode to a grandfather's passing, NAMOO—which translates to “tree” in Korean—follows the journey of a budding artist from beginning to end.

Six poems written by six young prisoners animated to tell their stories, thoughts, fears and hopes.

A short 1979 sand animation celebrating women's spirituality with 80-year-old lesbian poet Elsa Gidlow reading her work "What If."

This film visualizes humanity’s quest to relentlessly pursue goals. In the human fight for progress, the march forward cannot be stopped, even when individual people become weary and die. This animated short is based on a poem by the Chilean filmmaker and poet Juan Forch. Chilean painter Hernando León created the design.

Death follows a poet for his whole life, being a parasite to the poet.

A small film based on a poem by Osip Mandelstam. What the poet is thinking about, sitting in his apartment.

An animated telling of Kobe Bryant's titular poem, signaling his retirement from the sport that made his name.

Réne Manzor's debut short, a surreal story about a tramp trying to build a road through the desert.

Rose the rabbit seeks her way home in this poetic story of reclamation, recovery, and reconciliation.

Tim Burton's original poem narrated by Christopher Lee.

A visual interpretation of the poem "the girl / the scream" by Mahmud Darwish.