The Calm Sea in Nudo Festival

I'm delighted to share that our poetry film The Calm Sea has been selected for the Nudo Festival and premieres in Tenerife on Saturday 26 March at 5.30pm in the Chinyero Visitors Centre, Santiago del Teide (Reserve tickets). It will also be shown in Barcelona at the end of May – details to follow.

Estoy feliz de compartir la noticia que nuestro videopoema El mar en calma ha sido seleccionado para el festival Nudo. Se estrena en Tenerife en el Centro de Visitantes Chinyero, Santiago del Teide el sábado 26 de marzo a la 17.30h (reservar entradas). Luego se presenta a finales de mayo en Barcelona – pronto más detalles.

Festival details in www.festivalnudo.com

 Selected artists for V2 versos&visuales 2022. (Artwork by Juan Cardosa)

(2021) The Calm Sea, Gill, Mia (poet), Olsen, Charles (director
and original music). 2:37 min, Spain: antenablue.

Director's statement

'The Calm Sea' grew out of an online trans-Atlantic process of storytelling and poetic creation between Mia and her aunt, the Colombian poet Lilián Pallares. On one occasion Lilián told Mia five words in Spanish and before she could explain what to do Mia was creating her poem, 'Mar en Calma', (The Calm Sea).

When Mia could finally visit Spain for the first time in 2021, aged seven, we went together to the Valencian coast. Although we were at the seaside I wanted to find alternative ways to represent the sea and enter into the poem. The filming was a spontaneous extension of the creative process and captures the simple act of painting. I composed the music together with the editing of the images so they both compliment and respond to each other.