When You Left Me

Inspired by the trans-Atlantic slave trade and other large-scale traumatic events, this project uses the love-lost trope to examine how collective trauma impacts our connection to the land.

Kamari Bright, United States, 2025, 4 min, in English with hardcoded English text

About the Artist

Kamari Bright is a St. Louis-born videopoet and multimedia artist heavily inspired by human psychology and removing the vagueness of the growth and healing process. Leaning into the mechanisms of communication through the interplay of imagery and language, her works have been received at the International Poetry Film Festival of Thuringia, the Academy Award-qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival, Seattle Art Museum, TriQuarterly, Moss, International Video Poetry Festival of Athens, and more.