Art Visuals & Poetry

12/01/2026

Deadline for the poetry films competitions approaching. You can still submit your poetry film to the Art Visuals & Poetry Film Festival via Filmfreeway or website!

Check it out! Deadline January 15, 2026
https://www.poetryfilm-vienna.com/en/node/415

15/12/2025

Good news! We have prolonged the competitions of the Vienna Poetry Film Festival due to a new sponsorship.

You can still submit your poetry film to us!

COMPETITION AWARD GERMAN COUNTRIES ( up to 20 min.)
COMPETITION POETRY PERFORMANCE FILM AWARD ( up to 7 min)

Price-money for each category: € 1000.-

We are looking for poetry films!

OPEN CALLS POETRY FILM COMPETITIONS 2025Extended Deadline to January 15, 2026ART VISUAL & POETRY FILM FESTIVALApril 7-10, 2026 | KÜNSTLERHAUS VIENNA

21/11/2025

The competitions of the Art Visuals & Poetry Film Festival are open: 3 weeks more to go!

Two submission categories:
- We are looking for international POETRY PERFORMANCE FILMS
- The second competiton is dedicated to film makers living in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and is called AWARD GERMAN SPEAKING COUNTRIES.

Each competitions offers a prize-money of € 1000.-
Deadline to submit: December 15, 2026

The films will be screened during the Art Visuals & Poetry Film Festival April 7-10, 2025

We are looking forward to your poetry films!

https://www.poetryfilm-vienna.com/en/node/415

08/10/2025

Dear all, we officially launched our new poetry film competition calls for the next Vienna Poetry Film Festival, which will take place April 7-10, 2026 at Künstlerhaus Vienna.

Deadline December 15, 2025

For more information check
https://mailchi.mp/2b2e7fa6b6d3/submit-16579501

We are looking for your poetry films!

03/05/2024

🙏Nach der tollen Poetry Performance von Micha Kunze in Wien beim letzten Art Visuals & Poetry drücke ich die Daumen und wünsche seinem neuen Poetry Album viel Erfolg! Freu mich, wenn ihr das Crowdfunding Projekt ebenfalls unterstützt! 😎

After the great poetry performance by Micha Kunze in Vienna at the last Art Visuals & Poetry I keep my fingers crossed and wish the new poetry album every success! I would be delighted if you would also support the crowdfunding project! 😎

Das neue Poetry Album von Micha Kunze, in dem Wortkunst und Musik eine einzigartige Atmosphäre und Tiefe erschaffen.

01/01/2024

Due to New Year's Eve we show some more festival photos of artists at the Vienna Poetry Film Festival 2. 43 artists joined the festival such as Manfred Chobot (AT), Eleana Theophilou (CY), Micha Kunze (DE), Kuesti F (DE), Aurelio Ghirardelli (CH), Stefan Otto Ruiz (DE).
Fotocredit: © David Dunst

A special thanks goes to all your supporters and all artists joining in!

We wish you all✨ Happy New Year and lots of luck! ✨

06/12/2023

💥 WINNER SPECIAL AWARD
Filmtitle: la luna
Director: POETAQ (JAPAN)
Poet: Manfred Chobot 👏

POETAQ Poet & Filmmaker
【Summary】
Living in Japan. Studied under the late Hiroshi Kawasaki (poet), been performing spoken word since 2001. Began making poetry videos in 2019, and has been reading with selfmade videos at Nuyorican Poets Cafe Online Open Mic since 2020. 54 films created and presented (as of September 2023).
【Filmography】
1. “The 3 Crises ~omnibus”(2021)
ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival Official Selection 2021
2. “Anderkatt(Poem by Georg Leß/Reading by POETAQ) ”(2022)
ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival Official Selection 2022
3. “π(Pi)”(2023)
ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival Official Selection 2023
【Media】
　YouTube : Poetry Reading by POETAQ
X(Twitter)/Instagram :

30/11/2023

💥 AND THE WINNER IS...
SPECIAL AWARD/GEDICHTFILMWETTBEWERB MANFRED CHOBOT
Dlrector: POETAQ (Japan)
Title: la luna
Poet: Manfred Chobot 👏

Jurystatement:
Above an evening forest and mountain landscape that constantly changes its colors stands a full moon, which also constantly changes its color. The text of the poem appears in the foreground in written form. But the spoken text detaches itself from the image, rising up to become a kind of angelic voice from the sky, which even satirizes the words. This text film surprises in its urgency and convinces as an independent work of art.

28/11/2023

💥 EX AEQUO WINNER POETRY PERFORMANCE FILM AWARD
Filmtitle: Imaginings
Director: Anja Hiddinga (Netherlands)
Poets: Kitchen's Light (Bart Koolen, Boaz Blume, Brendan Lodder, Marie van Driessche, Sam Onclin, Tobias de Ronde) 👏

Imaginings shows a group of six performers (Kitchen’s Light), addressing viewers directly and sharing, individually and collectively, their struggles and dreams in poetic self-portraits. Against a background of suppression of deaf people and signed languages, these performances in sign language of a new Deaf generation emanate confidence and empowerment. At the same time, they evoke the vulnerabilities that go with being different, confronting viewers implicitly in their openness. The ‘signed word’ pieces unfold along the lines of three themes: I am, Walls, and Dreams. Throughout the film the camera keeps eye-contact with the performers in medium close images and the sound design subtly captures their physical presence. Together these aspects make Imaginings a unique experimental project, co-created by a range of talents in a spirit of equality.
Together with the film an interactive web-application (www.signlab.live) has been designed offering an international platform for literary culture in sign language.

Anja Hiddinga (1953) has made various documentaries and experimental films around sign language and deafness. Among these are the award winning poetry films in sign language: Growth, (IFFR 2003) Polder, Reflection, Strand and Fire (IFFR 2005) and the documentary I Sign, I Live (Picture for Picture Festival, 2012). She is also active as researcher at the University of Amsterdam.

27/11/2023

💥 EX AEQUO WINNER POETRY PERFORMANCE FILM AWARD
Filmtitle: Imaginings
Director: Anja Hiddinga (Netherlands)
Poets: Kitchen's Light (Bart Koolen, Boaz Blume, Brendan Lodder, Marie van Driessche, Sam Onclin, Tobias de Ronde) 👏

Jurystatement:
Admidst the stream of city-life, six people emerge to tell their stories in their mother tongue, to share their personal thoughts and experiences, their struggles and dreams, their confidence and vulnerability. A dense rhythm of image, sound, performed and written words takes the audience into the daily world of a whole generation. The camera is treated as a stage by the artists. Poetry becomes visual through the movement of bodies and the power of sign language is shown for both signing and non-signing viewers. By translating mimics and gestures, "Imaginings" becomes visionary for the reconstruction of an accessable society and lets us not only imagine but realize, how easily this could be achieved. A poetry film that touches with its expressive honesty and encourages reflection and further thought.