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Direct Message

Direct Message by David Dephy’s Poetry Orchestra inspires a new form of poetry video art, where spoken word becomes a symphonic pulse and visual language becomes an inner monologue. Guided by David Dephy’s visionary direction as conductor of the Poetry Orchestra, and amplified through the voices of six award-winning American poets (David Dephy included) across twelve tracks, the poetry video art blends orchestral cadence with cinematic abstraction, weaving themes of innocence, divinity, war, politics, freedom, spiritual fracture, and rising hope into a single evolving narrative.

The visual world mirrors our era of saturated media and political turbulence—where identities are hybrid or concealed, borders are metaphysical as much as geographic, and mysticism coexists with digital noise—using experimental sound-reactive imagery, layered poetic performance, and fragmented storytelling to reveal emotional truth. The result is an immersive, rhythmic, and philosophical audio-visual poem that invites viewers to interpret its messages, engage with its spiritual conflicts, and discover their own answers within its shifting symbolic universe.

  • David Dephy
    Director
  • David Dephy
    Writer
  • David Dephy
    Producer
  • Project Type:
    Other
  • Runtime:
    21 minutes 4 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    December 30, 2025
  • Production Budget:
    4,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • YouTube Channel David Dephy / Poetry Orchestra
    New York
    United States
    January 2, 2026
    World Premiere on YouTube
Director Biography - David Dephy

David Dephy is an award-winning American poet, novelist, multimedia artist, and the founder of Poetry Orchestra. In 2025, he received the Nassau County Poet Laureate Award in New York and served as the Poet-in-Residence for Brownstone Poets from 2024 to 2026. NASA, Lunar Codex, and Brick Street Poetry sent his poem, “A Sense of Purpose,” to the Moon in 2025. Dephy was exiled from his native country of Georgia and received indefinite political asylum in the U.S. His wife and son joined him in 2023 after six years of exile. Recognized as a “Literature Luminary” by Bowery Poetry, a “Stellar Poet” by Voices of Poetry, and an “Incomparable Poet” by Statorec, he has also been called “Brilliant Grace” by Headline Poetry & Press and praised for his “Extremely Unique Poetic Voice” by Cultural Daily. He lives and works in New York City.

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Director Statement

In the digital cosmic age, art and poetry, or the art of poetry, the poetry video art, will transcend borders, blending human intuition to express universal consciousness. Artists/poets will become more visionary than ever — a spaceship and all the mystical bridge-builders between technology and the spirit, word and eternity. I am one of these visionaries, a poet for the future worlds who has already found the connection, as well as we have found the language to express the message for the future worlds. My commitment is to continue creating works that awaken this shared consciousness, forging timeless bridges between the human spirit and infinity, the poetry that comforts and gives hope of decency, a brilliant prophecy that lives in all of us.

David Dephy
11/11/2025