Messages from the Other Side : video poems

To close European Poetry Festival digital 2020, we’re proud to partner with the longstanding public video poetry project "Messages from the Other Side", founded and curated by Max Höfler.

Six poets from Graz and London each write short poems for public screening in both cities. They video-poems or kinetic texts are styled as literary "news" for the other city, London to Graz, Graz to London. Projected onto the side of the Forum Stadtpark in Graz and Hardy Tree Gallery in London, passing civilians have witnessed the ludic newscasts of Natascha Gangl, Ghazal Mosadeq, Stefan Schmitzer, Vik Shirley, Thomas Antonic and Steven J. Fowler with a soundtrack by Martin Pichler. The films were screened November 18th to December 11th 2020.

All the films are available to view https://vimeo.com/channels/nachrichtenvondrueben with German language versions too

Supported Forum Stadtpark, European Poetry Festival London and Austrian Cultural Forum London.

Messages from the other side is a new kind of digital literary magazine founded by the Austrian author Max Höfler in 2013 and published by him since then.  The individual issues of this digital literature magazine consist of literature videos that make use of the literary short form. A white circle serves as a kind of frame, which is filled with only a few words by the authors. The previous editions have already been viewed more than 23,000 times on the nachrichten von drüben video channel.