Accepting any poetry in any genre or length that’s about ALLEGORY in any way.
All poems will be posted on this network. Over 95,000 unique visitors a day. The winning poem will have their poetry made into a movie.
The RULES are simple:
1. Write a POEM that’s about ALLEGORY. Send it to this contest for $15 and it will be POSTED on this site, guaranteed for 100,000s to see. (you own all rights to this poem)
2. SUBMIT as many poems as you like.
3. The poem can be anything about ALLEGORY. An event/situation that occurred about ALLEGORY in general.
The Moors were Arab and African Muslims from Northern Africa who liberated the people of the book in Spain.
Review by Parker Jesse Chase:
The Moors in Spain blends animation, narration, and historical dramatization to retell a story often overlooked in Western classrooms. This is the story about the arrival of Arab and African Muslims in Spain and their long-lasting impact on Europe. Based on the book The Moors in Spain: When Arab and Africans Led the World, the film reframes the Moors not as conquerors, but as liberators. A group of people who sought to bring education, technology, and coexistence to a region divided by ignorance and oppression.
The film opens in Mecca, 613 AD, “the age of ignorance,” as the narrator calls it. Through a mix of stylized animation and voiceover, we’re shown a harsh world where poverty rules and women are treated as less than human. The violence is softened by animation, yet it’s still deeply felt. The story then moves across regions from Tangiers to Guadalette, from Cordoba to Toledo each stop marking a key moment in the Moors’ mission to spread their faith and values.
At its core, the film is about the clash between religion, power, and principle. “Fear law, fear law, fear law,” echoes through one of its most memorable sequences, showing how religion, politics, and control intertwine. The filmmakers don’t shy away from depicting war and bloodshed. The battles between Muslims, Jews, and Christians are brutal, leaving viewers questioning what liberation really means when freedom must be fought for.
While the film clearly wants to honor the Moors as bringers of progress. A builder of cities, inventors of technologies, or even defenders of knowledge. Its visual storytelling often leans into the duality of contradiction. The closing narration praises their legacy of coexistence, yet the animation doubles down on scenes of chaos and rebellion. We see men cheering death, not dialogue. We see control replacing peace. It’s a tension that makes the film interesting, but also confusing in tone.
At times, the piece plays like an educational documentary and something that could be shown in a classroom. At other times, it feels more like a piece of propaganda, simplifying complex histories into a moral struggle between “white and brown,” “oppressed and oppressor.” The message is clear, but the nuance gets lost in the noise.
Still, The Moors in Spain deserves credit for tackling a subject rarely given space on screen. It reminds us history is not written by the victors, it’s rewritten by those who dare to challenge the narrative. Even with its uneven tone and heavy-handed symbolism, the film sparks important questions about faith, power, and what it really means to be free.
A visually bold, morally complex retelling of Moorish history that swings between education and agitation.
Its heart is in the right place, but its message sometimes gets buried under the weight of its own passion.
A Son rests in a barn alongside the corpse of his dead father. Tomorrow they will journey together over Dartmoor to the graveyard.
This deeply personal work sits at the intersection of experimental documentary and artists’ moving image in documenting the artist’s exploration of their Grief through the lens of a site specific response to the Lych Way (or Corpse Road) that historically connected rural settlements in the middle of Dartmoor with their parish burial ground over 16 miles away.
This sombre documentary short, Lych: The Corpse Road, strikes a curious balance: it is both experimental and intensely intimate. It mourns the loss of a father in such a honest, frank way with a basic onscreen text announcement of his passing, and what will happen to the body the next day – – to be carried 12 miles over the moor to be buried. In the meantime, it is a night of sleep with the body of the corpse present. The brilliant use of moss and scrawny tree branches reclined on a chair is an eerie suggestion of the father’s corpse. This image is shown repeatedly using glitchy close ups: the branches as if they are the deceased’s thin, skeletal limbs, and the clumps of moss, as if the flesh of the corpse is already rotting away.
We hear the distant funereal church bells that are to be rung as the mourners approach the parish graveyard. In addition to the church bells, there is a melancholy dirge of vocals and gloomy forest sounds, and the rush and trickles of water, suggesting dismal weather as the funeral procession moves along. There is even the brief sound of a fly, over the decomposing body.
The decision to film this in grey and black and white adds a “backward looking” essence – – a film of sadness and remembrance – – a memorable, inventive piece that anyone who has lost a beloved love one can relate to, on a deeply affecting level.
Accepting any poetry in any genre or length that’s about LGBTQ+ in any way.
All poems will be posted on this network. Over 95,000 unique visitors a day. The winning poem will have their poetry made into a movie.
The RULES are simple:
1. Write a POEM that’s about LGBTQ+. Send it to this contest for $15 and it will be POSTED on this site, guaranteed for 100,000s to see. (you own all rights to this poem)
2. SUBMIT as many poems as you like.
3. The poem can be anything about LGBTQ+. An event/situation that occurred about LGBTQ+ in general.
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