letter - to anyone who is listening
2019. Video, 1000s of photographs
Poem: by Doyali Islam - published in 'Heft' (2019) by McClelland & Stewart
Produced for the Visible Poetry Project
Featured on Shondaland website
(producer Shonda Rhimes of Bridgerton, Grey's Anatomy, and Scandal fame)
How does one inhabit a world in which “the moon / & the drone hang in the same sky”? Doyali Islam’s poem 'letter' interrogates this question, offering no solutions. The work is saturated with longing – and charged by it.
View film on Vimeo
Selected for:
Reel Poetry Festival, Houston, Texas, USA, 2020.
IndieCork/O'Bheal festival, Cork, Ireland 2019 - shortlisted
8th Athens International Poetry Film Festival, Athens, Greece, 2019.
MIX - Experiential Storytelling Conference, Bath Spa University, 2019.
Poem: by Doyali Islam - published in 'Heft' (2019) by McClelland & Stewart
Produced for the Visible Poetry Project
Featured on Shondaland website
(producer Shonda Rhimes of Bridgerton, Grey's Anatomy, and Scandal fame)
How does one inhabit a world in which “the moon / & the drone hang in the same sky”? Doyali Islam’s poem 'letter' interrogates this question, offering no solutions. The work is saturated with longing – and charged by it.
View film on Vimeo
Selected for:
Reel Poetry Festival, Houston, Texas, USA, 2020.
IndieCork/O'Bheal festival, Cork, Ireland 2019 - shortlisted
8th Athens International Poetry Film Festival, Athens, Greece, 2019.
MIX - Experiential Storytelling Conference, Bath Spa University, 2019.