Pamela Falkenberg and Jack Cochran (ATX) first met and made films together in graduate school. Jack was part of the Iowa Creative Writing Workshop and working on a PhD in film studies, and had a career as a professional cinematographer working out of LA and London. Pam got her PhD, became a film professor and experimental filmmaker, and subsequently worked in visual display. They reconnected thirty years later and formed Outlier Moving Pictures. honoring their new name by making technically innovative and poetic films about life, love, landscapes, social justice, and the environment.

PROGRAM: Sunday | 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM | Changing the World One Poem at a Time [Texas Edition]

Ian Gibbins is a poet, video artist and electronic musician living in South Australia. His poetry has been widely published in Australia and overseas, and includes four books, two of which are collaborations with visual artists. His award-winning poetry videos, video art and sound scape shave been exhibited to acclaim at festivals, installations, galleries and public art displays around the world. Until he retired in 2014, Ian was an internationally recognized neuroscientist and Professor of Anatomy at Flinders University, South Australia, having originally trained as a zoologist.

PROGRAM: Monday | 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM and 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM | The Video Jukebox

Heba Toulan, born in Cairo, hails from Washington, D.C. area. Her credits include The Laramie Project, Olivia for Twelfth Night, Hecate for Macbeth at the Woodlands Arts in the Park and Shakespeare in the Shade, Deaf Broadway’s Rocky Horror Picture Show, COMPANY, and Les Miserables, She recently starred in SENSES, Compromised Experiment, and The Window Washer. An accomplished model, Heba has modeled for over 10 brands, and walked for a number of designers. She can be found behind a book, or fostering/rescuing great pyrenees. Her web site is www.hebatoulan.com.

PROGRAM: Sunday | 5:50 PM – 6:10 PM | ASL Poems

Thomas Zandegiacomo Del Bel, born in 1968, studied German and Romance languages and literature as well as media and communication sciences in Mannheim. He was a research assistant at the ZKM Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe and works in the education and outreach department of the Deutsche Kinemathek in Berlin. He has been the artistic director of the ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival at the House for Poetry since 2006 and is invited to various film and literature festivals worldwide as a jury member, expert or guest speaker.

PROGRAM: Sunday | 3:15 PM – 4:00 PM | Best Of ZEBRA

Helen Dewbery has taught poetry film extensively, in person and online. Her work has appeared at poetry and film festivals, where she has also presented talks and curations. For 7 years she delivered a programme of poetry film events at Poetry Swindon Festival, including events in the community and an outdoor projection. Editor at www.poetryfilmlive.com

PROGRAM: Sunday | 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM | I Didn’t Die That Day

Odveig Klyve is a Norwegian poet and a film maker. Her works include eleven books of poetry with poems translated into many different languages, and short films selected for several film festivals around the world. Klyve runs a film company together with Bjørn Gulbrandsen. He has also been a cocurator of the program presented at Reel Poetry.

PROGRAM: Saturday | 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM | GEOPOETICON

Fiona Tinwei Lam has authored three poetry collections and a children’s book. Her poems have been featured in Best Canadian Poetry, BC’s Poetry in Transit, Best Canadian Essays as well as in award-winning poetry videos made in collaboration with animators and filmmakers that have screened internationally. She edited The Bright Well: Contemporary Canadian Poems about Facing Cancer, and co-edited two nonfiction anthologies. Shortlisted for the City of Vancouver Book Prize and other awards, her work appears in over 45 anthologies. She teaches creative writing at SFU Continuing Studies. She is currently serving as Vancouver’s Poet Laureate 2022-2024. fionalam.net

PROGRAM: Wednesday | 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM and 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM | Moving Poems in the City

Alger Ji-Liang (he/him) is an emerging interdisciplinary artist, curator, and arts worker based on the unceded and ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tseil-Waututh) peoples, known as Vancouver. His lens-based practice explores the interrelations of kinship, love, and grief through self-documentation, archival investigation, and image-making. Alger’s work has been shown at Images Festival, Vancouver Asian Film Festival, Festival of Recorded Movement, and Polygon Gallery. He is currently the curator of the Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen, a community-generated urban screen project dedicated to platforming public art received from and is responsive to its viewers, and its site specific locality.

PROGRAM: Wednesday | 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM and 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM | Moving Poems in the City

Douglas Ridloff ASL Slam passionately advocates for the beauty of American Sign Language and the vibrant Deaf/signing community, showcased through dynamic performances. Under the guidance of Douglas Ridloff, this platform invites community members to coalesce in creating and sharing traditional, contemporary, and experimental sign language literature. As the stage comes alive with Ridloff’s own performances, it extends a warm welcome to both performers and spectators, encouraging them to immerse themselves in expressive acts such as rapping, rhapsodizing, and rehashing—all beautifully articulated in the poetic language of signs.

PROGRAM: Thursday | 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM and 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM | ASL Video
PROGRAM: Satuday | 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM | ASL Performance + Deaf Slam

Sabina England is a fully deaf ASL (American Sign Language) poet performer and filmmaker. She writes, creates and performs poetry onstage and on screen, with American Sign Language dancing and multimedia video. She had studied at London Film Academy and had her shows performed and produced in London, New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, and San Francisco.

PROGRAM: Sunday | 5:30 PM – 5:50 PM | Sulfi Poetry in American Sign Language and Dance

Sarah Tremlett (Poem Film) MPhil, FRSA, SWIP is a poetry film-maker, video poet, poet and theorist, particularly enquiring into the philosophy of poetry film, and the author of The Poetics of Poetry Film (Intellect Books and University of Chicago Press, April 2021). She is co-director of Liberated Words Poetry Film events, editor of Liberated Words online, a judge at festivals.

PROGRAM: Tuesday | 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM and 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM | Frame to Frames: Your Eyes Follow