The Second Poem, a Video Essay


Weimar, Deutchland / 2018
Video Essay, documentary short film, 11:29, digital, color



Research, film concept, director, camera, narrator, editing and post Paloma Llambías
2nd camera and Interviews – Jessica Krecisz, Paloma Llambías
Interview Assistent – Valerie Naschert
Sound recording – Jakob Reiniger
Translations – Sarah Hermanutz, Agda Llambías, Guido Naschert


           “The Second Poem” is a video essay, which relates the director’s encounter with video poetry through a voice over in first person, that links the everyday videos recorded with her smartphone to interviews with the jury of the Weimar Poetry Film Award 2018. In this way she travels through different audiovisual media in search of the poetrry film genre” 

*developed for the Hybrid.Poetry Seminar, at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.


Mark