Primavera-A poem
This August I took a night bus from Amsterdam to Berlin and then a car share to Leipzig. Linda picked me up where the car dropped me off and we made it just in time to pitch for the silent film portion of kino Kabaret. I didn’t know what to expect and as people pitched their films I thought of a poem I wrote in 2021 after coming out of quarantine and the most isolated I’d ever been. Linda Theet, Yasir Shakir and I all strangers from different parts of the world with different mother tongues, went into the woods and filmed this mostly in the dark with a high ISO. Sebastien Branche agreed to improvise live music as I recited the poem to a live audience at a screening in Leipzig. Linda synced the live recording to the film and it was screened again in Berlin. To be supported in making films feels amazing no matter how brief the experience.