Trailer
This film will be presented during the La Nuit du court event on March 22nd, 2025 at Concordia University.
Three artists work in parallel to translate, through sound and movement, the heart of a poem. They collaborate with life’s unexpected events — broken clotheslines, emptied pools, terminal diagnoses — and learn that what flows is not necessarily gone.
Director’s statement:
Creating with these two remarkable artists expands my sense of voice into its fullest being — swimming the poem, singing the poem, wearing the poem, flying it. It’s as if we are writing with our bodies and the page is whatever scene we are moving through – an empty pool, a race track, a hospital sheet. Our process together shows me how and where and why a poem can live and be lived: inside and outside all at once, hovering just above and below the furling, unfurling, crumpling page.
- Jennifer Still
In the presence of co-directors Chantel Mierau and Jennifer Still on March 22nd in Montreal.
Three artists work in parallel to translate, through sound and movement, the heart of a poem. They collaborate with life’s unexpected events — broken clotheslines, emptied pools, terminal diagnoses — and learn that what flows is not necessarily gone.
Director’s statement:
Creating with these two remarkable artists expands my sense of voice into its fullest being — swimming the poem, singing the poem, wearing the poem, flying it. It’s as if we are writing with our bodies and the page is whatever scene we are moving through – an empty pool, a race track, a hospital sheet. Our process together shows me how and where and why a poem can live and be lived: inside and outside all at once, hovering just above and below the furling, unfurling, crumpling page.
- Jennifer Still
In the presence of co-directors Chantel Mierau and Jennifer Still on March 22nd in Montreal.
Other festivals:
OurToba Film Fest, Canada (2024)
Onion City Experimental Film Festival, USA (2024)
Zebra Poetry Film Festival, Germany (2023)
Also presented:
Gallery 1C03 — University of Winnipeg, Canada (2024)
OurToba Film Fest, Canada (2024)
Onion City Experimental Film Festival, USA (2024)
Zebra Poetry Film Festival, Germany (2023)
Also presented:
Gallery 1C03 — University of Winnipeg, Canada (2024)
| Director | Jennifer Still, Christine Fellows, Chantel Mierau |
| Script | Jennifer Still |
| Director of Photography | Christine Fellows |
| Production | Jennifer Still |
| Editing | Jennifer Still, Christine Fellows, Chantel Mierau |
| Camera | Christine Fellows, Chantel Mierau |
| Sound mixing | Christine Fellows |
| Music | Christine Fellows |
| Animation | Christine Fellows |
Session
• Université Concordia - H110, Pavillon Henry F. Hall
Saturday, march 22, 2025, 07:00 p.m. — 10:26 p.m.
Production
Jennifer Still
Jennifer Still composes poems with physicality. She is the author of several handmade chapbooks and three poetry books. “Legs” (2022) is a limited-edition chapbook with Baseline Press and a winner of the 2021 Malahat Review Long Poem Prize. “Legs” was installed as a solo exhibition at Gallery 1C03 in Winnipeg, MB, and at the Zebra Poetry Film Festival in Berlin, Germany in fall 2023.
Biographical notes provided by the film production team and edited by Le FIFA’s team
Biographical notes provided by the film production team and edited by Le FIFA’s team
Christine Fellows
Christine Fellows finds music in sounds we tend to take for granted: the voices of the people we love, the sounds of the spaces we move through as part of our daily lives. Over two decades, she has released 8 solo albums, and toured internationally both as a solo artist and as a collaborator, from the Canadian Arctic to Southern Australia.
Biographical notes provided by the film production team and edited by Le FIFA’s team
Biographical notes provided by the film production team and edited by Le FIFA’s team
Chantel Mierau
Chantel Mierau is a visual artist working in video and performance. Her work examines the everyday, and a frequent focal point in her work is the body and clothing.
Biographical notes provided by the film production team and edited by Le FIFA’s team
Biographical notes provided by the film production team and edited by Le FIFA’s team
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Université Concordia - H110, Pavillon Henry F. Hall
Saturday, march 22, 2025, 07:00 p.m.
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