Poetry Expo 23
/ 16 February 2023
ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival – Best Of (No. 4 & 5)
A Barcode Scanner & Incident on Grand River, 1967
Poetry Expo 23
Title: A Barcode Scanner (2019)
Director: David Shook
Country: Iraq
Poet: Zêdan Xelef
Poem: A Barcode Scanner
This poetry film documents the arduous everyday life in Khamishko, a camp in northern Iraq which today houses more than 5,000 Êzîdî families who survived the ruthless genocide of the Islamic state.
Title: Incident on Grand River, 1967 (2020)
Director: Pete Johnston
Country: United States
Poet: Cindy Hunter Morgan
Poem: Incident on Grand River, 1967
Racism and social injustice led to the Detroit Riots of 1967 with 43 people killed and 5,000 made homeless. The poem tells about the grandmother’s looted shop. At the end a young African-American man in the uniform of the National Guard. Paradoxes of history.
Internationals short films based on poems that show what opportunities are available.
The project is part of the subtheme Opportunity.
Author
Haus für Poesie
Since its foundation in 1991, the Haus für Poesie, formerly the Literaturwerkstatt Berlin, has been promoting and supporting all areas of literature, but especially poetry, both as the written word and in conjunction with other art forms and media. Its work has focused exclusively on poetry since 2000. It is the venue where contemporary poetry in all its diversity of forms is showcased and discussed.
