Passport | short film and poem by Lina Ramona Vitkauskas | RSVP to KHÔRA Salon on 9/14
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Today’s post features a short film and poem by Canadian-Lithuanian-American author and artist Lina Ramona Vitkauskas. A self-described “migratory existential wanderer,” Lina has been experimenting with poetic language, video, and photography for 30 years. By her request, Lina’s honorarium for “Passport” will be donated to the Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada to support the fight against the severe form of brain cancer that took her mother’s life.
Passport by Lina Ramona Vitkauskas.
—For my mother, Zita, upon hearing her terminal diagnosis
1Just missing
the heart
and below,
in Portuguese,
in stiff, serif type:
“portrait”;
your gaze,
far-off, staving
off reaction,
you are negotiating
the constraints
of your small frame,
fleeing again—
that intrinsic memory
running through your
veins.
View Passport.
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Leigh Hopkins
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