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Bridge by Adam E. Stone - Best Videopoetry

About

Jury Statement: The work offers a linear gaze through inner time, one that connects the deepest self to the whole. The bridge becomes an allegorical device for defining the irresolvably dual condition of humankind, suspended in a darkness lit at moments by the electrifying artifice of the paradox of existing as individuals within the immutable.

Synopsis

Impressionistic night landscapes punctuate this two-minute film poem about illness and well-being.

Adam E. Stone

Adam E. Stone is an independent filmmaker from the American Midwest. His films have been shown at more than 250 major curated festivals around the world and have won numerous awards. He has made experimental feature films, poetry short films, dance short films and other experimental short films. Stone is also one of the co-producers of, and conducted many of the interviews for, two feature-length documentaries: "Miss Fury and the Lost Legacy of Tarpé Mills" (2024) and "Black Hawk Down: The Untold Story" (DVD 2019). In 2012, Stone wrote and produced the spoken word ballet "A Life Unhappening", which tells of the impact of one woman's Alzheimer's disease on three generations of her family. In 2010, he wrote, directed and produced the DVD novel "Cache Girl Saves the World: A Novel in Visions". He is also the author of three traditional novels.

Text of poem:

sometimes
you think about demons
and other things that start with d
shadows and blurs
of everything
and nothing
fluid as memory
fluid as time
they scare you
because
they come without reason
into your stomach
into your hands

you try to remember a life without them
but there’s no bridge back
to that place in your mind
you wonder if anything ever was real
how you became this you-but-not-you
you know you should know
you know it should matter
but there’s no bridge back
from this place in your mind
you can’t even remember the sun on your face
can’t even remember
the sun