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.