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under two windows

A poetry film based on the poem "Under Two Windows" by Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer

(Mariana Alley Griswold Van Rensselaer (February 21, 1851 – January 20, 1934), usually known as Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer or M. G. Van Rensselaer, was an American author focusing on architectural criticism. She was the first woman architectural critic.)

Under Two Windows
BY SCHUYLER VAN RENSSELAER

I. AUBADE

The dawn is here—and the long night through I have never seen thy face,
Though my feet have worn the patient grass at the gate of thy dwelling-place.

While the white moon sailed till, red in the west, it found the far world edge,
No leaflet stirred of the leaves that climb to garland thy window ledge.

Yet the vine had quivered from root to tip, and opened its flowers again,
If only the low moon's light had glanced on a moving casement pane.

Warm was the wind that entered in where the barrier stood ajar,
And the curtain shook with its gentle breath, white as young lilies are;

But there came no hand all the slow night through to draw the folds aside,
(I longed as the moon and the vine-leaves longed!) or to set the casement wide.

Three times in a low-hung nest there dreamed his five sweet notes a bird,
And thrice my heart leaped up at the sound I thought thou hadst surely heard.

But now that thy praise is caroled aloud by a thousand throats awake,
Shall I watch from afar and silently, as under the moon, for thy sake?

Nay—bold in the sun I speak thy name, I too, and I wait no more
Thy hand, thy face, in the window niche, but thy kiss at the open door!

II. NOCTURNE

My darling, come!—The wings of the dark have wafted the sunset away,
And there's room for much in a summer night, but no room for delay.
A still moon looketh down from the sky, and a wavering moon looks up
From every hollow in the green hills that holds a pool in its cup.

The woodland borders are wreathed with bloom—elder, viburnum, rose;
The young trees yearn on the breast of the wind that sighs of love as it goes.

The small stars drown in the moon-washed blue but the greater ones abide,
With Vega high in the midmost place, Altair not far aside.

The glades are dusk, and soft the grass, where the flower of the elder gleams,
Mist-white, moth-like, a spirit awake in the dark of forest dreams.

Arcturus beckons into the east, Antares toward the south,
That sendeth a zephyr sweet with thyme to seek for thy sweeter mouth.

Shall the blossom wake, the star look down, all night and have naught to see?
Shall the reeds that sing by the wind-brushed pool say nothing of thee and me?

—My darling comes! My arms are content, my feet are guiding her way;
There is room for much in a summer night, but no room for delay!

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  • Beate Gördes
    Director
  • M. G. Van Rensselaer
    Poet
  • Nemo LibriVoxReader
    Reader
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short, Other
  • Runtime:
    4 minutes 10 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    December 4, 2022
  • Production Budget:
    0 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Germany
  • Country of Filming:
    Germany
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Golden Fern Film Awards

    India
    February 1, 2023
    Winning Award , Category Film in Women
Director Biography - Beate Gördes

Visual Artist

Born in Herten (NRW), Germany in 1961, lives and works in Cologne.

From 1987 to 1992, degree in Fine Arts/Painting at the University of Applied Sciences Cologne. Since 1985, regularly participating in exhibitions and shows both nationally and internationally. In 2006, the focus shifted towards creating video compositions combined with electroacoustic sounds. Founder and curator of the event series called BLAUE STUNDE. Participated in numerous international short film festivals.

Selection

2023

HAIKU NORTH AMERICA – HAIBUN FILM Festival
Haiku North America conference 2023, Cincinnati, USA
INTERNATIONAL POETRY FILM FESTIVAL OF THURINGIA / POETRY FILMTAGE Weimar
Mon Ami Kino im Kulturzentrum
GOLDEN FERN FILM AWARDS
Darjeeling, West Bengal, India

2022

13th ZEBRA POETRY FILMFESTIVAL
Kulturbrauerei Berlin
HIER NICHT HIER (mit Dagmar Lutz)
Tenri Japanisch-Deutsche Kulturwerkstatt Köln
INDUSTRIETEMPEL VIDEOKUNSTFESTIVAL 2022
Werksfassade Müllheizkraftwerk Ludwigshafen
INTERBIFEP 18. International Biennal Of Portrait
„Centar za kulturu“ Tuzla, Bosnia/Hercegovina
LINES FICTION – Zeichnung & Animation (Kuratiert von Bettina Munk)
Filmscreening, Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin
RESPONSE ART (Ein Projekt von Reni Scholz)
Künstlerforum Bonn
Internationale Thüringer Poetryfilmtage, Weimar
FESTIVAL-MEDIATHEK, Kategorie Deutschsprachige Poesiefilme
NEW YORK NIL GALLERY Filmscreening – hier nicht hier-
Nomination category: Installation

2021

OFFLINE – hier nicht hier – (zusammen mit Dagmar Lutz)
hebebühne e.V., Wuppertal
RÖSL-ROSE (zusammen mit Marget Schopka und Angelika Wittek)
Kunstraum 57, Köln
ART VISUALS & POETRY FILM FESTIVAL WIEN Factory im Künstlerhaus Wien
EXPERIMENT_RAUM Multimediales Kunstprojekt
Kulturwerkstatt/Galerie Ins Blaue e.V. Remscheid
BEWEGTER WIND change ?! 10. Internationales Windkunstfestival
Stadtbücherei Hofgeismar, Hessen
ALC VIDEOART FESTIVAL
Auditorium of MACA (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Alicante), Spanien
CALCUTTA INTERNATIONAL CULT FILM FESTIVAL – 51st season, Indien
TAGORE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL – 23th season
GITANJALI CULTURAL COMPLEX , Birbhum, Westbengalen, Indien
OYEDRUM Weekly Art/Media online, USA

2020

TANGENTIALE
Roman Lang | Beate Gördes und Dagmar Lutz
Künstlerforum Bonn
Showroom PROGR / videokunst.ch
Bern, Schweiz
ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival
Filmtheater am Friedrichshain, Berlin
DEW21 Kunstpreis
Dortmunder U, Ebene 6
TAGORE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL – 7th season
(zusammen mit Reni Scholz und Britta Lieberknecht)
GITANJALI CULTURAL COMPLEX, Birbhum, Westbengalen, Indien
MORE THAN 8
Halle Zollstock, Köln
BLAUE STUNDE X – ALL STARS –
Alte Feuerwache Köln

2019

10. ZEBRA POETRY FILM FESTIVAL
KulturBrauerei, Berlin
STAUBKLEID Videomapping in einer Ausstellung von Letitia Gaba & Inga Franke
Halle Zollstock, Köln
DIALOG IN AGORA Kolloquium
Bibliothek Germania Judaica, Köln

2018

35. KASSELER DOKUMENTARFILM- UND VIDEOFEST
Bali Kino, Kassel
9. ZEBRA POETRY FILM FESTIVAL
Schloßtheater Münster
STADTVISIONALE “WOHNREVOLUTION” Kurzfilm-Festival
Evangelische Akademie Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main
FONLAD International Video Art and Performance Festival
Museu da Água / Water museum, Coimbra, Portugal
THE DEMOCRACY SCRABBLE PROJECT Curators: Anna Corpas + Joas Nebe
Visualcontainer TV + [.BOX]Videoart project space
OBEN IST NICHT UNTEN
KUNSTRAUM 57 , Köln

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