OZ Arts Nashville Hosts Special Screenings by Defy Film Festival and Kindling Arts Festival
A Heroic Couplets Initiative
May 7-8
FILMS
(in order of appearance)
and all the empty space in between, still ringing
Poem by
C. SINCLAIRE BROWN
Directed by
DREW MAYNARD
Legs
An Ekphrasis on “When I Die, Please Donate My Legs to a Mermaid” by
CIONA ROUSE
Written & Directed by
LUKE HARVEY
Rations
A Tone Poem by
JOHN SHAKESPEAR
Directed by
CALEB DIRKS
Unrequited
An adaptation of the poems “In the Want-nursery” and “Love Poem Ending at UPS” by
JOSHUA MOORE
Directed by
SAMANTHA SZWAGLIS
Familiar
Poem by
ELISE ANDERSON
Directed by
KATIE MCCALL
Slick Like Dark
An adaptation of the poem “The Instant Before It Collapses and Is Promptly Forgotten” by
MEG WADE
Directed by
HAVEN NUTT
I Am Sorry
Poem written and performed by
FRANK “FRIZZY” SYKES
Directed by
CHRIS DURAI
Narcissus
Poem by
LAGNAJITA MUKHOPADHYAY
Directed by
John Warren
Due Us Part
A visual adaptation of the poem “Black Face / White Joker” by
CAMERON L. MITCHELL
Directed by
MONTEZ MICKLES
Here is When You Are
A visual adaptation of multiple poems by
DAN HOY
Created by
SOPHIA GORDON
Nourish Her Violently
Poem by
ROBYN LEIGH LEAR
Directed by
NICHOLE MARIE LIM & NATALIE RUFFINO WILSON
To Have A Name
Inspired by the poem by
ALORA YOUNG
Directed by
ANGELL FOSTER
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