Palabras Prestadas Videopoetry

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.

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.

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

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.

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?

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.

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