Experiencing Interruptions?

THE POEM

- We are characters. May Text be with us.

THE POEM is an artistic exploration of language through its manifestation in poetry and mathematics, here viewed as essential media defining the universum - from perceptible to conceivable, and onwards to unimaginable.
For this observation, THE POEM embraces "The Poe-et's Nightmare" by H.P.Lovecraft, a poetic message from Lovecraft to Edgar Poe, written in 1916.
THE POEM attempts to "translate" that powerful story into visuals, but not as mere illustrations of the actual storytelling. Instead, it aims to decode the poem's innate symbolic space and to project it into a coherent visual realm with a surreal aesthetics of a graphic antique manuscript, abstracting away from the described events.
Eventually, what we observe is a dialogue between the written unseen and the unspeakable evident.

  • Vadim Epstein
    Director
  • Ivan Pavlov
    Sound
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Web / New Media
  • Runtime:
    42 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    November 1, 2023
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • SOLO AI'24 award
    London
    Shortlist
Director - Vadim Epstein