Poetry in Motion: A Hybrid Workshop with Michèle Saint-Michel
Exploring the intimate space where image and language meet
July 23 · 7–9 PM ET · In-Person (Brooklyn) + Online
Sliding Scale: $15 ·
Poetry films don’t ask to be explained. They ask to be felt.
They breathe. They shimmer. They hold contradiction. They allow for the fragmented, the elliptical, the quiet. In this spirit, artist and filmmaker Michèle Saint-Michel will lead Poetry in Motion—a hybrid workshop on July 23 that invites participants to explore filmmaking as a poetic and collaborative gesture.
Offered both in-person at Millennium Film Workshop in Brooklyn and online, this two-hour session is an expansion of Saint-Michel’s own practice: working at the edge of language, grief, and gesture to create soft, layered forms that speak across time.
Rather than focusing on polished technique or technical jargon, the session centers presence, attention, and creative intuition. It’s about image as sensation. It’s about sound as memory. It’s about making something small together, and letting it ripple.
What to Expect
Participants will co-create a collaborative short film using their own submitted footage. Each person is invited to shoot and send a short (one minute or less) video on their phone in advance of the workshop. This video should include:
— one poetic object
— one scene of life
It can be abstract or literal, quiet or vivid. There’s no right way to film—only the invitation to notice differently.
To participate, please send your video to info@millenniumfilm.org by July 16. You’ll then be included in the collective piece we’ll build during the session.
This workshop is open to all—whether you’re a filmmaker, poet, dancer, dreamer, or someone who simply wants to explore new ways of seeing. No prior experience is required. Just a phone, a little time, and a willingness to make something honest.
About the Artist
Michèle Saint-Michel is a filmmaker, intermedia artist, and poet whose work explores power, feminist ecologies, quantum mechanics, somatic memory, and the poetics of grief. Trained in both dance and writing, she works across film, installation, sound, and text to create emotionally resonant works that foreground care, resistance, and nonlinear time. Her work has been shown internationally at festivals and galleries including Prismatic Ground, hARTSlane, Fisura, APT Gallery, and Biodromo, and she currently curates art and film programs in New York City.
Poetry in Motion
Date: Tuesday, July 23
Time: 7:00–9:00 PM Eastern
Location: In-person (Brooklyn) + Online
Sliding Scale: $15
RSVP & Footage Submission: info@millenniumfilm.org by July 16
This is a workshop for the soft-hearted. The bold quiet ones. The ones who want to make something real.