Film Poems
Filmpoem “I think About Your Hands”
Name and duration of Film: “I Think About Your Hands” (3:03 min)
Month & Year completed: May 2020
Name of Director: Marina Kazakova
Country of origin: Belgium
Name of Poet: Marina Kazakova
Synopsis: The poem is inspired by and devoted to the great artist, Leonardo da Vinci, and his gorgeous country. The hands drawn by Leonardo in his portrait paintings as well as his famous study of arms and hands probably represent the most exquisite visualisation of hands in the history of art. Hands as a portrait of our inner rhythms and truths hidden behind the words…Hands conveying the thoughts of the one, and, by extension, the emotional pattern.
Publication on Poetry Film Live (UK)
The text of the poem:
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I think about your hands.
Besides your hands,
there is not much else
I like to be preoccupied with.
I have been reinventing them,
I
have become your hands,
they
have become my gestures.
I always wait for them to move somewhere,
nowhere in particular,
just somewhere,
to unsettle my focused imagination.
I try to like them modestly,
but yet each time
I can’t resist to slowly
lie down,
to turn into the piano
under your fingers,
to play the symphonies
heard hardly by anyone
except my pillow and me.
What I think about your hands
is inexpressible –
I think your hands
are letters of love,
are music notes,
are the white swans
of Pyotr Tchaikovsky:
they choreograph over my lake
a never-ending story,
a whirling tsunami of Mars,
a heart-stopping waltz,
particularly, when the strings
enter pianissimo…
Later developing into
staccato-allegro-forte –
your swans are flying over my shoulders
when I carefully trap them
in a kiss.
