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My Body Is a Poem/The World Makes With Me

MY BODY IS A POEM/THE WORLD MAKES WITH ME is a rhythmic documentary memoir exploring Caribbean culture, disability, and colonial histories in Canada.

MY BODY IS A POEM/THE WORLD MAKES WITH ME is a personal documentary about belonging, familial love and Canadian colonial histories by director and poet Brandon Wint. At the intersection of Blackness and disability, the film is an artistic kaleidoscope composed of animation,illustration, poetry, and photography bending genres and flirting with experimentalism. With a colourful soundscape and cinematography to match, Wint’s directorial debut floats off the screen and echos as a defiant, assured visual language.

  • Brandon Wint
    Director
  • Brandon Wint
    Writer
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Documentary, Experimental, Short
  • Genres:
    Art, Black, Documentary, Animation, Poetry, Disability
  • Runtime:
    27 minutes 48 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    June 29, 2022
  • Country of Origin:
    Canada
  • Country of Filming:
    Canada
  • Language:
    English
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Director Biography - Brandon Wint

Brandon Wint is an Ontario-born poet, spoken word artist, and multi-disciplinary collaborator who uses poetry to attend to the joys, challenges and miracles of being alive.

For Brandon, the written and spoken word is a tool for examining and enacting his sense of justice, and imagining less violent futures for himself and the world he has inherited. For more than a decade, Brandon has been a sought-after, touring performer and has presented his work in the United States, Australia, Lithuania, Latvia, and Jamaica. His poems and essays have been published in national anthologies, including The Great Black North: Contemporary African-Canadian Poetry (Frontenac House, 2013) and Black Writers Matter (University of Regina Press, 2019). Divine Animal is his debut book of poetry, while MY BODY IS A POEM/THE WORLD MAKES WITH ME is his debut short documentary.

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Director Statement

MY BODY IS A POEM/THE WORLD MAKES WITH ME is an experimental memoir that uses poetry, personal essay, digital collage, and motion capture animation to make peace with the complexities of the body as a Black, disabled, Caribbean-Canadian poet. The film uses the intimacy of personal memory and lyric poetry to make connections between my humanity and the broader legacies of racism, ableism, and colonialism that affect all bodies in the Canadian prairies. Through its imaginative use of animation, music and cinematography, MY BODY IS A POEM/THE WORLD MAKES WITH ME makes space for me to express the ways that Blackness, disability, and modes of Caribbean community care have taught me how to love, and clarified my pathways for healing.