POETRY IS NOT A LUXURY. IT IS A VITAL NECESSITY.
AUDRE LORDE
This sentence by Audre Lorde was the inspiration for the production of the 36th edition of Les Instants Vidéo festival. For indeed « It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action. Poetry is the path that helps us to formulate the nameless, making it possible. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are paved with our poems, carved out of the rock of the experiences of our daily lives. As we come to know and accept them, our explored emotions become sacred and fertile ground for the most radical and daring ideas.”
In the current context (reduced funding for artistic creation and culture in general, shrinking spaces for freedom of expression and the rise of totalitarianism, common humanity under the yoke of globalisation), we need to listen to the thunder, to explore the unexpected and create porosities between universes.