Poetry Film Shorts with Arizona Illustrated


TUESDAY, JULY 18 AT 5:00PM
Free Admission
Tickets Available DAY OF at Box Office
Featuring six Tucson poets!
This screening will feature six short films, created by Arizona Illustrated, each focused on a single poem chosen as an evocation of Southern Arizona, in all its beauty and complexity. The featured Tucson poets include TC Tolbert, Raquel Gutiérrez, William Pitt Root, Susan Briante, Javier Zamora, and Bojan Louis.
Aniversario or We Moved to Tucson During a Pandemic (Dir. by David Fenster, 2023, USA, 3 mins., NR)
This is what you are (Dir. by Cáit NíSíomón, 2023, USA, 3 mins., NR)
V (Dir. by John DeSoto, 2023, USA, 2 mins., NR)
On the Crisis of Abandonment (Dir. by Özlem Özgür, 2023, USA, 4 mins., NR)
TO ERASURES, ERASURES (Dir. by Tony Paniagua, 2023, USA, 4 mins., NR)
White Boots (Dir. by Liz Scherffius, 2023, USA, 5 mins., NR)
This is a rental of The Loft Cinema, presented by The University of Arizona Poetry Center.