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Get ready to experience unique visions from around the world!On 16 October 2026, 20:00 at ARTos House,NicosiaCinePoems Cyprus Festival Free EntryAmong the 13 selected videopoems: A Cat Has Seven Lives Maria Korporal | Italy„The starting point for the video was a series of digital photomontages composed of several elements: old and new photographs, scanned materials like ropes, perspex engravings, film, leafs. With various digital animation techniques these “prime materials” have been processed into a dynamical sequence of images and sounds, in which the seven lives of the cat follow each other in a temporal line. Introduced by the sounds of bells or drums, each life presents a new dimension: an inner experience of time juxtaposed against the external course of things, one of the artist’s favourite subjects.The seventh life is the longest part of the movie and is entitled: “Looking for the Hermit and Not Finding Him”, a very common theme in classic Chinese poetry, usually describing a spirit-journey. In the imaginary landscape in Maria Korporal’s video, the female figure, walking on and off stage, could be the artist in her never ending search for the sublime, but it could also represent the hermit gathering, too busy to pay us any mind.“The video closes with a poem by Taoist poet Chia Tao (779-843):Under a pine I asked his pupil Who said: “Master's gone gathering balm Only somewhere about the mountain: The cloud's so thick that I don't know where.”Director Biography - Maria Korporal:Maria Korporal was born 1962 in Sliedrecht, the Netherlands. She studied graphics and painting at the St. Joost Academy of Fine Arts in Breda. During her studies she began working with photography and she graduated with, among other things, a video installation. After her studies, in 1986, she moved to Italy, where she lived until 2013 in Sant'Oreste (Rome). Subsequently she moved to Berlin, where she now lives and works. Her work has been exhibited and awarded worldwide, with screenings at major international festivals. Website: www.mariakorporal.comDirector Statement:My artistic practice spans video art, animation, drawing, interactive projects, and installations, combining digital and analogue techniques. Using narrative, direct imagery, and sound, my work invites deep viewer engagement and explores the shifting boundaries between virtuality and reality, often addressing urgent social and ecological issues.Recent global turbulence has strongly influenced my work, raising questions about how digital signs might be interpreted in a world without electricity or networks. After years of working primarily digitally, I returned to charcoal drawing as a foundation for new video works, where analogue spontaneity merges with digital transformation. Alongside this, I continue to develop VR, AR, 360°, and 3D animation, combining hand-made and high-tech processes in an ongoing dialogue.Poetry MOVES International Festival
ANNOUNCEMENT // 2nd CinePoems Cyprus Festival - Official Selection 2026Screening: 16.10.2026, 20:00 | ARTos House, Nicosia | Free EntryΑΝΑΚΟΙΝΩΣΗ // 2ο Φεστιβάλ CinePoems Κύπρου - Επίσημη Επιλογή 2026Προβολή: 16.10.2026, 20:00 | ARTos House, Λευκωσία | Είσοδος ελεύθερηWe are thrilled to announce the 13 Official Selections of the 2nd CinePoems Cyprus Festival, part of Poetry Moves International Festival!This year's theme: TIME - Flows of TimeCongratulations to all selected artists!And heartfelt thanks to all 343 filmmakers who submitted their work. Poetry in motion continues. ———————————-Με μεγάλη χαρά ανακοινώνουμε τις 13 επίσημες επιλογές του 2ου Φεστιβάλ CinePoems Κύπρου, στο πλαίσιο του Poetry Moves International Festival!Θέμα της φετινής χρονιάς:ΧΡΟΝΟΣ - Ροές ΧρόνουΣυγχαρητήρια σε όλους τους επιλεγμένους καλλιτέχνες!Και ένα μεγάλο ευχαριστώ σε όλους τους 343 δημιουργούς που υπέβαλαν το έργο τους. Η ποίηση σε κίνηση συνεχίζεται.OFFICIAL SELECTION 2026:1. A Cat Has Seven LivesDirector: Maria Korporal | Italy2. Land of Denied RitualsDirecto:r Ashtar Muallem | State of Palestine3. WHAT IS LOVE?Director: Eduardo Yagüe | Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom4. DoughnutDirector: Stavros Makridis | Greece5. This Jug Was Once a LoverDirector: Hooshyar Zaheryani | Austria6. TORNADODirector: Meisam Ghesi Zadeh |Iran7. among tangled treesDirector: Blas Payri | Spain8. PetresDirector: Vassia Pappa | Greece9. BREATH NETWORKDirector: Mourad Hamla | Algeria10. Murphy Was An OptimistDirector: Heiko Reimer | Germany11. Saber cair é uma ciencia / to know to fall is a scienceDirector: Katalin Egely | Hungary12. HOW LONG IS A MINUTE?Director: Vito Nocoletta | Italy13. I BASHODirector: Denys Rzhavskyi | Japan(Special invitation selection)
Happy and honored with the official selection of my video “A Cat Has Seven Lives”! Thank you Georgea Solomontos 💖
My “magic Sappho box” is part of my video installation THE Q OF SAPPHO, which will be shown in the exhibition Spieglein Spieglein an der Wand, wer ist M/W/D in diesem Land?, October 9 – November 1, 2026, Galerie VBK Berlin @spieglein_spieglein_m.w.d @verein_berliner_kuenstler Galerie Verein Berliner Künstler THE Q OF SAPPHO takes its starting point from Sappho’s famous Ode to Aphrodite, in which the legendary poet from Lesbos calls upon the goddess for help with an unrequited and passionate love.Sappho is renowned for her love of women, and her poetry has become closely associated with female same-sex desire. Yet for centuries, this aspect of her work was obscured, reinterpreted and suppressed. Even the gender of the people she addressed in her poems was sometimes altered by translators, with “she” becoming “he”. The project explores this history and the persistent assumptions behind it — ultimately confronting the notion that female sexuality does not exist.Info: mariakorporal.com/the-q-of-sappho/ or link in bio.#sappho #odetoaphrodite #lgbtqart #augmentedrealityart #queerart