Not all participants in the congress centre know where to go while bacteria and official announcements spread and multiply in the toilets.
directors: Paul Bogaert & Jan Peeters
poet: Paul Bogaert
poem 1: ‘onzekerheden 12’ (uncertainties 12), from: Ons verlangen (Our Longing), published by De Bezige Bij Antwerpen, 2013.
poem 2: ‘Een twee drie emmers…’, unpublished yet.
editing: Jan Peeters
footage: Color it clean (University of Illinois - Motion Picture Service, 1966) / Bacteria: Friend and Foe (Encyclopdia Brittanica Film, Inc, 1953), Prelinger Archives.
sound: sound samples from freesound.org / music samples from Seeburg Background Music: Mood M 17A (1963) and Mood M 15B (1962).
year of production: 2014
country of production: Belgium
format: DV PAL
aspect ratio: 4:3 (1.33:1)
colour: colour
sound: stereo
runtime: 6 min 18 s
poet: Paul Bogaert
poem 1: ‘onzekerheden 12’ (uncertainties 12), from: Ons verlangen (Our Longing), published by De Bezige Bij Antwerpen, 2013.
poem 2: ‘Een twee drie emmers…’, unpublished yet.
editing: Jan Peeters
footage: Color it clean (University of Illinois - Motion Picture Service, 1966) / Bacteria: Friend and Foe (Encyclopdia Brittanica Film, Inc, 1953), Prelinger Archives.
sound: sound samples from freesound.org / music samples from Seeburg Background Music: Mood M 17A (1963) and Mood M 15B (1962).
year of production: 2014
country of production: Belgium
format: DV PAL
aspect ratio: 4:3 (1.33:1)
colour: colour
sound: stereo
runtime: 6 min 18 s
screenings/publications
Poetry International Festival Rotterdam, 10-14 June 2014, Rotterdam, the Netherlands (PREMIERE).
FilmPoem Festival 2014, 14 June 2014, part of Felix Poetry Festival, Antwerp, Belgium.
ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival (competition), 16-19 October 2014, in Babylon Cinema, Berlin, Germany.
Terras, tijdschrift voor internationale literatuur en kunst, online publication of the original Dutch version 'BACTERIËN', 20 October 2014.
Perdu, Presentatie Terras 07: Nieuw land, 21 November 2014, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Oslo internasjonale poesifestival, 31 January 2015, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway.
Berlinale-Asyl, 12 February 2015, Freies Museum Berlin, Germany.
VKRATZE!, short film festival, 6 & 7 March 2015, in Volgograd and Volzhsky, Russia.
Best of ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival 2014, POETRY 2015, 6 May 2015, cinema Schlosstheater, Münster, Germany.
16. Poesiefestival Berlin, 27 June 2015, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany.
dotdotdot Open Air Kurzfilmfestival, beyond words. Poetische streifzüge auf der Leinwand und durch die Stadt, 6 August 2015, Österreichisches Museum für Volkskunde, Vienna, Austria.
39th Open Air Filmfest Weiterstadt, 15 August 2015, Berlin, Germany.
Struga Poetry Evenings – Festival 2015, 28 August 2015, Struga, Macedonia.
3rd Long Night of the Film Festivals, 29 August 2015, Berlin, Germany.
6th International Poetry Festival MERIDIAN CZERNOWITZ, 5 September 2015, Chernivtsi, Ukrania.
CYCLOP Video Poetry Festival, 21 November 2015 Kiev, Ukraine.
DOCtorCLIP - Roma International Poetry Film Festival, 11 December 2015, Rome, Italy.
Typo Magazine, TYPO 24, 25 April 2016, Online poetry magazine. Established 2003. Based in Fayetteville, Arkansas/Springfield, Illinois, USA, online publication of the English version BACTERIA.
6th International Animation Festival NIKOZI, in ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival programme (4 September), 1-6 September 2016, Nikozi, Georgia.
Frankfurter Buchmesse 2016, Dies ist, was wir teilen, Flandern & die Niederlande Ehrengast 2016, exhibition in guest pavillion, 19-23 October 2016, Frankfurt, Germany.
5th International Video Poetry Festival, by +the Institute [for Experimental Arts] and Void Network, 10 December 2016, at Θεατρο Εμπρος, Athens, Greece.
West Wednesdays, projection by Kulter in the M4gastatelier in the building complex Tetterode, 8 March 2017, Amsterdam-West, the Netherlands.
Short Waves Festival 2017, organized by Fundacja Ad Arte, 22 March 2017, Poznan, Poland.
Poesía en Voz Alta.17, 29 March - 2 April 2017, Casa del Lago, Mexico City, Mexico.
2018 Lyrik-Film, Der Zauber des Alltäglichen, 21-23 September 2018, The Purple Mountain Theater & Goethe Institut China, Nanjing, China.
IN / BETWEEN PLACES, curated by Alexander Schellow (ERG) and Alexander Streitberger (UCLouvain), 12-19 March 2020, Galerie Erg, L’Ecole de Recherche Graphique (l’ERG), Brussels, Belgium. [The exhibition was cut short immediately after the opening, due to the coronavirus lockdown.]
Film Poetry, online publication in the video library, 2020.
Art Visuals & Poetry, Film Magazine - Poetry Film International, 27 March 2020, online publication.
Videopoetry? Poesiefilm? Cinépoème? Three intermedial works in word & image, lecture with film screenings by Paul Bogaert & Jan Peeters, 18 May 2021, Film & Literature, Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven, Belgium.
The best films from the ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival, 11 October - 30 November 2021, Goethe-Institut Montréal, Canada.
Videopoetry? Poesiefilm? Cinépoème? Four intermedial works in word & image, lecture with film screenings by Paul Bogaert & Jan Peeters, 23 November 2021, Akademie für Lyrikkritik, Haus für Poesie, Berlin, Germany.
Videopoetry? Poesiefilm? Cinépoème? Four intermedial works in word & image, lecture with film screenings by Paul Bogaert & Jan Peeters, 16 May 2022, Film & Literature, Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven, Belgium.
Videopoetry? Poesiefilm? Cinépoème? Four intermedial works in word & image, lecture with film screenings by Paul Bogaert & Jan Peeters, 17 April 2023, Film & Literature, Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven, Belgium.
Nederlands Poëziefilm Festival, 3-4-5 November 2023, Luxor Theater, Zutphen, the Netherlands. The original Dutch language variant BACTERIËN was shown in the "Special Paul Bogaert / Jan Peeters" programme.
Videopoetry? Poesiefilm? Cinépoème? Five intermedial works in word & image, lecture with film screenings by Paul Bogaert & Jan Peeters, 22 April 2024, Film & Literature, Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven, Belgium.
