Heroic Couplets: GENDERBEND
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OZ Arts Nashville 6172 Cockrill Bend Circ, Nashville, Tennessee 37209

created by Daniel Jones
The second installment of Heroic Couplets
Independent arts incubators Kindling Arts and Defy Film Festival unite once again for a second installment of Heroic Couplets: Poetry into Film Collaborations. This year's theme, GENDERBEND, is being explored by 8 pairs of local artists (one poet + one filmmaker) who together create a cinematic adaptation of a poetic work. All artists participating on the line-up are female-identifying and/or LGBTQIA+, and many of the poetic works explore deeply personal topics of gender identity, fitting into societal norms, and complicated family dynamics from a uniquely queer perspective.
The premiere screenings at OZ Arts will include all 8 short films, plus a chance to hear from some of the collaborating teams after each screening, moderated by Defy's Dycee Wildman. The participating artists are:
Simba Alik x Nichole Marie Lim*
Rachel Ebio x Chalet Comellas-Baker*
Kashif Andrew Graham x Jose Luis Benavides**
Theo Hall x Tiffany Abreu**
CJ Holiday x Samantha Szwaglis**
Nora Masters x Abbey Johnson*
Taria Person x Chanel Braswell*
Amie Whittemore x Brynn Abner**
*Notes artists speaking after the screening on Saturday, May 14th at 8PM.
**Notes artists speaking after the screening on Sunday, May 22nd at 5PM