Poetry. Film Studies. Art. VANITAS 5 takes on film, to see what meanings attached to the word, what it is to have a screen between things, boundary, lining, partition. A poem made of movie titles, poems to movies, poem in the mind of filmmaker, twining of image to one's word, cinemabilia. Featuring Rae Armantrout, John Ashbery, Michael Basinski, Michael Brownstein, Tom Clark, Clayton Eshleman, Nada Gordon, Richard Hell, Anselm Hollo, Gerard Malanga, Eileen Myles, Jerome Sala, David Shapiro, Tony Towle, Anne Waldman, and many more. Featured artwork by filmmakers Volker Schlöndorff and Hannes Schüpbach.