Still from the poetry film Read in Raindrops

LEER EN LAS GOTAS DE LLUVIA
READ IN RAINDROPS (10:44 min)
Poem by Xisca Minart
An Angolan artist and mother, her four-year-old daughter, and a New Zealand painter, create imaginative worlds in new lands.

Still from the poetry film Praying Mantis

mantis religiosa
PRAYING MANTIS (6:37 min)
Poem by Gabriel Merino
A ritual dance, an intimate ceremony, passion and treachery.

Poster of the poetry film Shoo-Flies

Espantamoscas
SHOO-FLIES (2:50 min)
Poem by Julio Alcalá
A cat finds exile in a country that uses her shoes and fits her shirts.

Still from the poetry film Acromegaly

Ac / ro / me / ga / lia
AC / RO / ME / GA / LY (2:44 min)
Poem by Lara López
'A / cro / me / ga / ly' begins the poem, breaking into more manageable parts this rare but challenging disease. 'Your lifelong eyes / huddled / behind this mask'. Can empathy and solace be found in the natural and built environment?

Still from the poetry film The Calm Sea

el mar en calma
THE CALM SEA (2:37 min)
Poem by Mia Gill
Happiness through the eyes of a child who paints the sea.

Still from the poetry film Wandering Houses

CASAS ERRANTES
WANDERING HOUSES (9:24 min)
Poems by Lauren Mendinueta and Lilián Pallares
One poet visits the house of her friend, also a poet, in Lisbon. Both migrants from Barranquilla, Colombia, they journey together between books, pegs, mango and waves.

OFFICIAL SELECTION
Seattle: Cadence Video Poetry (Frye Art Museum and NorthWest Film Forum) 2025
Mexico City: Fotogenia 2025
Peru: Migration in Transit. International Film Festival Lima 2025
Ireland: Bloomsday Film Festival (Nomination) 2025
Lisbon: Encuentro de Literatura Colombiana (Lisbon University)
Oeiras: MOON Festival de Videopoesia 2025
Wellington: Aotearoa Poetry Film Festival

Palabras Prestadas Videopoetry

Word is connection, a bridge, a mirror, diversity, equality and the imaginary.


In Palabras Prestadas Videopoetry we filmed a series of six poetry films based on our online poetry project in Spanish, Palabras Prestadas. These were presented in December 2025 at the café-bookshop Big Tree Books, Madrid.

The poetry films were created with Support for Contemporary Creation 2024-2025 from Madrid City Council.